To: burzum
I could never understand the "warming oceans equals new ice age" logic, either. It's all a bunch of hooey. They're just covering all the bases so no matter what happens they can come back and say: "See? We were right!"
4 posted on
12/19/2005 3:08:56 AM PST by
manwiththehands
("Merry Christmas .... and Happy New Year ... you can take your seat now ...")
To: manwiththehands
No, I was specifically commenting on the fact that the writer thought that 2150 F is ten times the boiling point.
Of what? Water at atmospheric pressure?
That temperature is 373 K. 2150 F is 1450 K, certainly not ten times the value. In any other case (such as the boiling point of water under high pressure--such as the bottom of the ocean), the ratio is even lower.
A person who writes about science should know better. A first year physics student would know better. It is obvious that the author forgot about the thermodynamic temperature scale.
8 posted on
12/19/2005 3:15:05 AM PST by
burzum
(Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.-Adm H Rickover)
To: manwiththehands
The theory behind the "warming oceans equals ice age" is this:
The warmer oceans cause more storms to form, thus dumping more snow than usual in the polar regions. All this snow takes longer and longer to melt until eventually it starts sticking year round and the ice caps start to grow.
That's the theory anyhow. Could very well be a bunch of bunk but just wanted to put that out there.
25 posted on
12/19/2005 4:00:10 AM PST by
SamAdams76
(What Would Howard Roarke Do?)
To: manwiththehands
I could never understand the "warming oceans equals new ice age" logic, either. It's all a bunch of hooey. They're just covering all the bases so no matter what happens they can come back and say: "See? We were right!"LOL.... ditto that.
32 posted on
12/19/2005 4:04:39 AM PST by
Dustbunny
(Main Stream Media -- Making 'Max Headroom' a reality.)
To: manwiththehands
I could never understand the "warming oceans equals new ice age" logic, either. What's wrong with you? Haven't you noticed the ice on the walls of the sauna? or around the edges of your hot tub? Good Grief!
;^)
34 posted on
12/19/2005 4:09:10 AM PST by
Loud Mime
(Bad Lawmakers = Bad Law = Infinite Lawyers)
To: manwiththehands
If you go to the site,
Not by Fire but by Ice, you will see that Felix is trying to debunk the global warming crowd. According to Felix, we are about to enter a new ice age, which is a cyclical event that occurs every 11,500 years. It has nothing to do with man.
The warming of the ocean by volcanic activity releases more CO2 into the atmosphere. It has nothing to do with human activity. It is not global warming, but ocean warming.
36 posted on
12/19/2005 4:10:49 AM PST by
kabar
To: manwiththehands; Coyoteman
And people wonder why the general public doesn't trust scientists. There's nothing the scientists said but the science writer makes these statements and people often just assume the scientists support it.
Do they know if this is all NEW volcanic activity or old volcanic activity that we have just learned about?
52 posted on
12/19/2005 5:04:47 AM PST by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: manwiththehands
I could never understand the "warming oceans equals new ice age" logic, either."
You know. Kind of like how Coleman refrigerators use fire to make ice.
77 posted on
11/03/2006 7:45:50 PM PST by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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