Global warming

[Kinser79]

(10-16-2017, 10:29 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-14-2017, 09:29 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(10-14-2017, 09:15 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-13-2017, 10:17 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: PBR, I know you claim to have autism but even you have to understand that warmer temperatures do not result in more ice.  After all, you're not Eric whose scientific understanding seems to be stuck in the seventeenth century.

H-m-m-m.  Warmer temperatures can easily lead to more ice.  Start with glacial ice melting on a land mass like Greenland.  This melts into the sea, lowering the salinity.  If the sea water is adequately cold, ice can then form.

Good to see that Mr. Horn doesn't understand that the ocean is not a stagnant body of water.

It's far less dynamic than you seem to think.  Oceanic drift, the actual movement of water from place to place, is measured in months and years.  Here's an often repeated experiment that demonstrates that very well.

Interesting but ultimately unimportant.  Even in a stagnant body of water the difusion of a lighter liquid into a compatible heavier liquid will occur over time.  I recomend allowing the ice in a sweet tea to melt some summer afternoon to demonstrate (though coke [and all soft drinks are coke--pepsi coke, mountain dew coke, sprite coke, etc] would also work, personally I'm partial to A&W cream soda).  Suffice it to say that even if there is melting polar ice, and it is is "freshening" the northern and southern seas it is not fresh water but is still a brine, though perhaps with some reduced salinity.

That may make the formation of sea ice easier, however, if the climate alarmists are to be believed the presence of this ice should lead to eventual cooling due to the reflective properties of ice.  Thus we still have the problem of the predictions made by the alarmists simply not coming true.  There are still polar bears even though we were told not even 10 years ago they should all be extinct by now, and don't even get me started on about how Mount Kilimanjaro still has its snows.