Posted on 10/28/2021 6:15:15 AM PDT by MNDude
“Why would you inject science into this? Would you like some carbon credits?”
You failed science class, also?
So all we have to do is fill in the Pacific Ocean.
Areas closer to the water seem to have more moderated temps.
In the contrast, in the desert, temps can swing 60 degrees between day and night.
What is your point?
That I think water is a better insulator.
What’s your point?
“In the contrast, in the desert, temps can swing 60 degrees between day and night.”
That is because granular sand has a very low heat capacity.
Di down a few feet and you will notice that the sand does not swing 60 degrees.
“Areas closer to the water seem to have more moderated temps.”
Water has a high heat capacity, thus it can give/receive lots of energy with moderate temperature changes.
“That I think water is a better insulator.”
From the construction industry. Insulation ratings (Higher number=better insulator):
Dirt/Soil: R = 0.2
Water: R = 0.004
If water were a good insulator the balloon would quickly heat up and burst.
Video: Heat Capacity of Water (01:13)
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth111/node/840
You have zero sense of humor. F OFF.
Ah, but the article leaves out the tidbit that the sun is getting hotter, supposedly enough to render Earth (at least at the surface) inhospitable to life in ~1.1 billion years.
https://usm.maine.edu/planet/sun-getting-hotter-if-so-why-will-earth-eventually-become-too-hot-life
(I do not know if that prediction takes a thinning atmosphere into effect. So far, at least from the standpoint of hospitality to life, once life arose on Earth, it’s generally been a near wash. SOME life, like humans during the last period of glaciation, or the dinosaurs (had to go with the bird option) has had tough times, but, enough of the planet has remained survivable that life on Earth has continued...)
However, a bigger point is that the largest factor in life surviving on Earth, in the long run, is not the Sun (until it goes Red Giant on us, and maybe not even then) or cooling of the Earth’s interior. The biggest factor is US. (Ok, God, too.) Retaining an atmosphere will one day be considered relatively easy.
If in a mere 1 million years we do not have the capability to do, literally, planetary engineering, we will have been the biggest disappointment Earth has ever seen.
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