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Re: Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drough

Derek Broughton

2006-03-30, 10:21 pm

daestrom wrote:

> While it is certainly cold in Antarctica, the wind patterns don't bring a
> lot of moisture from the oceans very far inland. The vast interior gets
> so
> little snow it qualifies as a desert. So increased evaporation from
> tropical ocean water is *not* likely to cause an increase in precipitation
> in the interior of Antarctica.

I think you stretched a little there - I think it's almost certain to cause
an increase in precipitation. But only a very small one compared to the
overall increase of evaporation.
>
>
> What an idiotic inference. So, the relative humidity all over the world
> just shoots up to 100% and the ocean level drops despite icecap melting?
> Go
> on, pull the other leg.... Guess you've never heard of hurricanes. They
> are a great example of how increased evaporation just turns into increased
> rain. ('what goes up, must come down...' <somewhere> )

Yep.
--
derek

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