Global warming

[Kinser79]

(10-15-2017, 02:07 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Kinser --

1. Snow is a result of condensation of water vapor from gas to solid. Snow is never frozen rain, which is sleet or freezing rain. 


2. Rain is typically molten snow  -- snow that melts in the air as it drops from parts of the atmosphere in which the temperature is below freezing to levels at which the air is above freezing. (Friction may play a role too, but that is slight).

3. Ice and snow   may ablate through either liquefaction (melting) or evaporation (sublimation).

4. Although pure water freezes and melts at 0C/32F, salt as in sea water tends to lower the melting point.

As if you were expected to know this.

1.  I know what snow is.

2.  In some areas true.  In the Tropics not so much.

3. Not a contention of argument unless you wish to differ over the typical physical properties of water that everyone else uses.

4.  Making my point for me.  If there is an unusually high amount of sea ice--that is to say oceanic ice formed from sea water which has an average salinity of 3.5% necessitating temperatures far below 0C. Since sea water counts as brine the freezing point is -17.78C.  This means to have extra thick sea ice to the point that penguins, a species adapted to living in and around areas with sea ice are starving, that the temperatures must be far far colder than normal.

I don't know why you feel the need to insert an obsolete measurement system into the discussion.  It adds nothing.  I would have thought if your goal was to emphasize how smart you are (a dubious claim during the best of times) you would have chosen Kelvin as the temperature system of choice alongside Celsius.  273.15 K is the freezing point of water on that scale.

Anymore windmills you would wish to tilt at?  I mean, personally I don't mind you making a fool of yourself, but your arguments are tiresome and I'm starting to think I should treat you like I did the kids that rode on the short bus at school.  Believe me I didn't debate them because they were highly skilled.