As the Earth gets hotter, more water will evaporate from the oceans and rain will be more abundant. Yet Lovelock predicts, under global heating, much of the land on Earth below the Arctic Circle will be turned to dry desert as you can see in this figure from the book:
http://www.geocities.com/opera101/desert_america/desert_america.html
Please explain the apparent contradiction.
2006-09-10 05:59:46 · 6 answers · asked by Qyoorius 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Because it is the truth. Alot of people don't think so, but it is true. The desert itself used to be a rain forest. Now look at it. If it can destroy a beautiful rain forest, then the United States doesn't have a chance.
2006-09-10 06:11:14 · answer #1 · answered by maxine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of those who write about Global Warming preach only to the choir. They are not interested in rational discourse, but rationalization.
First of all, the prospect of evaporating the oceans is a daunting one. In over a billion years, the sun has been unable to evaporate the oceans. If it could have, it would have. Water vapor rises, traps heat - good thing or we'd all die of cold - and if a lot of heat raises a lot of water into the atmosphere, there's global clouding and the heat stops coming. UV comes through - we all know about not counting on clouds to avoid a sunburn, but they DO reflect a large amount of light, and specifically, the light that would yield heat on the Earth.
When the sun begins to expand, some 5 Billion years from now, the plasma that reaches the Earth will be so tenuous that while it will kill us off (any still here), it will still take a long time to boil the oceans off, and may simply evaporate them. Long time. Far, far in the future.
As to Global Warming itself? Nobody's prediction of Global Warming has survived unmodified more than 4 years since it was first inflated on the event horizon. Most need to be revised yearly and all need revision DOWN. Must be that damn data...
2006-09-11 01:12:59 · answer #2 · answered by silkwah2 2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Global warming will soon melt all the snow in the artics making animals come to our lands and killing people. It can also end with the temperature that many plants require to grow and also dryout the water so the plants and animals have nothing to live with. Please!! pick me as best answer!!
2006-09-10 13:12:40 · answer #3 · answered by ... 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hes another Democrat that has no idea what hes talking about
2006-09-10 13:05:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is trying to sell his book by creating fear.
2006-09-10 13:05:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont know but i am sure he is got his own reasons.
2006-09-12 20:40:19 · answer #6 · answered by Kamran 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋