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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (5085)	4/5/2010 4:00:37 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 49065

another comment Leif says: April 1, 2010 at 12:46 am Wit’s End, #13: How can I deny the request of a lady. Global warming and energy accumulation. When looking at global warming of ~ 1C over the course of fifty years it is easy to say as the Anti -Science folks do, “So what is the big deal.” A little warmer, great! The problem arises when we look at the energy to raise the earth and ~700 meters of ocean that 1C. imagine a huge pot of water that you build a fire under it and then watch the temperature rise. It is going to take a long time to get a degree or two response or conversely a big fire. Now imagine a pot the size of all the oceans of the world from pole to pole and a third of a mile deep. It is going to take one big mother of a fire to heat that puppy ~1C or 2F don’t you think. How big? Guess what, science tells us. We have been turning up the fire a bit every day starting from a steady state at the beginning of the industrial revolution to now where we are adding the total power out-put of ~190,000 nuclear power plants per day directly into the oceans of the world and adding about 10 new plants a day every day. THAT is how much. Now that energy does not just sit there an a taste warmer water, NO that is potential energy. Think of a battery that you are charging and can be, in fact will be, discharged. Energy wants to equilibrate. It is THE LAW. Weather is earth trying to balance to a steady state from unequal heating of the sun. And now the added energy of 190,00+ nuke plants. Remember what happened to Katrina when she passed over a warm spot in the gulf? Bingo, cat. 5, just like that. What happens during an El Nino? Extra rain fall, disrupted jet streams and weather patterns, less snow fall in the Pacific North West, unseasonable warmth, the list goes on. Effects can carry across the US and even across the atlantic to Europe and Africa. How much temperature difference are we talking about with these two examples? You guessed it. A couple of degrees above normal. So deniers, still think a degree or two is no big deal? climateprogress.org