Remember this winter?
Dear Jackasses:
This letter is addressed to all the people who cracked jokes during the fairly nasty bits of this last winter. You know who you are... you're the people who tried to joke that "this doesn't feel like global warming to me!"
Al Gore would like a written apology from every sweaty-assed one of you.
This letter is addressed to all the people who cracked jokes during the fairly nasty bits of this last winter. You know who you are... you're the people who tried to joke that "this doesn't feel like global warming to me!"
Al Gore would like a written apology from every sweaty-assed one of you.
Adding heat to the earth is like adding heat to a sterling engine. The pistons aren't going to get longer all the sudden, the engine is just going to run more vigorously.
Or more accessibly, adding heat to the earth is like pressing down on the gas pedal of your car. Everything is going to "become more-so". More noise, more speed, more shaking, and yes, more waste heat making things hotter.
So if you live where winds bring cold air down from the poles, you will get more cold air faster, and deeper into your territory. A little rain becomes a lot of rain, a little dry becomes a lot of dry. The endless stack of unexpected consequence is boundless. For instance we may have had less cloud cover here in the sound (and so less rain) this summer because strong winds aloft were stronger, and perhaps more turbulent coming over the mountains, effectively souping the moisture out of the giant valley that is the sound area and carrying it off down-wind.
We should expect disruptions in accepted patterns, which are really new patterns taking hold. Colder winters in many places. Less predictability in storms great and small as more wind moves heat between bodies of land and water in new ways etc.
It's not like the earth just put on a tee-shirt and gained a degree. 8-)
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