[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Re: global luke-warming -- addendum
- From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:34:53 -0400
At 06:21 PM 4/15/2006, you wrote:
Paul, you're being silly. If the temperature rises
then thermocline boundary will drop deeper.
VERY slowly.
For back of envelope calculations you might as well assume 3800
meters deep container (the average depth of oceans) or
you have to explain where all the extra solar energy
goes if you want to stick to your calculation.
You think that ALL the water in the whole world is going to rise to
30 C? Do you know how many brazillian joules of energy you would
need to raise trillions of trillions of gallons of water from 4 C to 30 C?
For the average sun energy of 1400 BTU/Sqft/day, at a depth of 3800
meters, based on approx 70% earth coverage, it would take 75 YEARS to
raise all that water to 30 C and that's if EVERY SINGLE bit of energy
from the sun is used to heat the water. Now who's being silly? This
is not a back of the envelope calculation... I used an excel spreadsheet.
Also, based on 3800 metres depth, when the water DID reach 30 C, it
would have risen about 10.5 metres. If we can't move all our coastal
cities -- or protect them in [absolute impossible worst case
scenario] 75 years, then we deserve to be drowned. Can you imagine
how GREAT the swimming would be though?
Incidentally, RIGHT now, the 1400 BTU/sqft/day is happening, why
don't you think that the oceans are boiling over? Why has only the
surface temperature, ONLY in really hot places only risen about 2 or
3 degrees in the past 100 years? Where's all that heat going? Hmm...
let me see...
radiating into the night,
paul
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Paul Stone
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Leamington, ON. Canada
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