Q1: If all the water disappeared. The planet would be a desert and temperatures would increase. Life would be over. Yes?
Q2: If half the water disappeared. The planet would still probably become hot and life would drop off. Yes also?
Theory: Cut down a billion trees. Store some (some as in trillions of gallons) water for each and every human and animal and all the processes they need. Think long and hard on where the water is, and how much. In place of trees lets put down some concrete. Some concrete would be (help me with the math here.) an unknown super amount???? Concrete is a heat sink. So is asphalt, but probably more. Anyway, My point is we are storing in some form or another bookoo amounts of water. This water is not available to the atmosphere (earth's water cycle). Between heat sinks, trapping water and creating our own heat, from factorys, people, animals and the dreaded CO2. Only in the last 100 or less years we have altered the system. Our system is set.
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2007-10-01 15:48:38 · 5 answers · asked by Wattsup! 3 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Q1: Yes.
Q2: Hard to tell. Thing might very well go runaway since water acts like a major distribution heatsink. Without that distribution, lateral temperatures would likely lock and we would fry or freeze.
Not even talking about the atmospheric screw up.
2007-10-01 15:52:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Q1. No. Water vapor is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. With no water there would be no water vapor and almost no greenhouse effect, so Earth would be much colder. But since life needs water there would be no life.
Q2. Also no. Half as much water in the oceans would be more than enough to maintain a climate not too different to what we have now I think.
2007-10-02 00:15:49 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Problem at Q1:
Water is by far the most powerful greenhouse gas, like 20x the power of CO2. If you take away all water the earth COOLS.
Still, life would be over.
2007-10-01 23:28:59 · answer #3 · answered by G_U_C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One big problem with that, cutting down all those trees would actually increase the CO2 and decrease O2 in the atmosphere. We would all die because we had no oxygen to breathe.
2007-10-01 22:52:40 · answer #4 · answered by Aaron 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would seem to me that you have all of these backwards.
2007-10-02 11:22:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋