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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (26152)12/2/2009 7:00:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
Wharfie, the heat radiates out to space. It's carted from the equator to the cold places like Ottawa and points north [and south]. Like the Gulf Stream, carrying heat to Europe, it spreads the warmth around, like a good socialist.

When it's cloudy in Ottawa, it's warm [meaning -6 celsius in January]. Same when it snows. When the clouds clear, the heat is zipping off into space.

Antarctica is filling with ice. It is gaining megatons of the stuff. <"The water is stored at the poles as ice."
As long as there is ice. Since you haven't noticed, I should probably tell you there isn't as much this year as last year, or the year B4. >

The northern hemisphere is so filled with goop, it's not surprising if there's some melting there. Fortunately, there's not a lot of ice in the north, other than on Greenland and that will migrate to Antarctica if it melts.

Imagine how improved things would be if the Arctic was a year-round seaway and Greenland was green and pleasantly habitable. Not that there's a shortage of human habitats. But there might be lots of oil under the ice and drilling would become possible.

I recall learning the word albedo decades ago. It was one of those interesting words linked into interesting effects. A worthy word. Al Gore must have invented it about the same time as he invented cyberspace.

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