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To The Horror Of Global Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling Is Here


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  • chrisy chrisy 1 year ago




  • renewableguy renewableguy 1 year ago

    chrisy 25 minutes ago

    energy in = energy out


  • edsmith_111 edsmith_111 1 year ago

    Peter Cabrera is a LAWYER on the payroll of the Koch brother oil barons, Exxon Mobil and The Petroleum Inst. via the Heartland Inst. Take his twisting of facts and disregard for the truth for what a paid mouthpiece is worth.

  • renewableguy renewableguy 1 year ago

    chrisy 28 minutes ago




    I’m not interested in what the temperature will be, but that the energy will be conserved in transferring from ocean to atmosphere.


    As heat is added to the oceans, latent heat is being carried through the atmosphere in the form of water vapor. When this water vapor condenses out in the atmosphere, the heat is released into the atmosphere.

    In a hurricane, if 100 grams of water vapor condense into water every second, how many calories of heat are released into the atmosphere in one day?

    Answer: 100g x 540 calories/g x 3600 sec/hour x 24 hours = 4.7 x 10*9 calories

    How much additional heat per day would be released if the water then froze into ice particles?

    4.7 x 10*9 x 80 calories/gram = 3.8 x 10*11 calories

  • Rest assured, Rob, the arctic is the same as ever.

  • Bugger That Bugger That 1 year ago

    Your statement that the Arctic has almost reached its long term average is a flat out lie. Even the briefest of looks at the latest from the National Snow and Ice Data makes it obvious that your statement is not based in fact. To say the Antarctic exceeds its long term average is a gross distortion. While Antarctic sea ice is up, the ice shelves and ice sheets continue to lose mass. To say there has been no heating is yet another lie. While it is true that there has been little to no overall atmospheric heating in the last ten years, the Earth as a whole has continued to heat, as exemplified by the 0.5 Watts/m^2 excess power being absorbed from the sun over what is being radiated back into space. Your article reveals the standard propaganda line from the think tanks.

  • The arctic is the same as ever? You mean, navigating the northwest passage in summer, without ice breakers?

  • chrisy chrisy 1 year ago

    renewableguy- you say “I’m not interested in what the temperature will be.”

    You sound like a fossil-fuel-funded, flat-earther, money-grubbing climate denier who should be jailed (or worse) for crimes against humanity :-).

    Of course you know that temperature is the canonical metric for CACC. The renewable energy market subsidies, FITs, rebates, carbon credits, etc etc, owe their existence to the pearl-clutching agonizing by climate alarmists over anthropogenic temperature increases.

    You need a temperature increase (or decrease) to influence evaporation rates at the ocean surface. That’s why I asked my still unanswered question.

    Since you are focused on energy content, what is the total heat content of the world’s oceans? Hint- it is a lot bigger than the energy anomalies typically discussed.

  • renewableguy renewableguy 1 year ago

    chrisy 50 minutes ago

    I know that I am not answering your question, but I find it interesting how much energy there is in a hurricane. The hurricane being a latent heat engine off the oceans. So obviously the energy in the ocean is way higher than what is converted by the hurricane. With the increase of sea surface temperatures world, we are giving hurricanes more opportunity for intensity with extra ghg’s in the atmosphere.

    One of the by products of a warmer ocean, the sea surface temperature is quite a bit higher anomaly than a mere .1degree centigrade.


    Method 1) – Total energy released through cloud/rain formation:
    An average hurricane produces 1.5 cm/day (0.6 inches/day) of rain inside a circle of radius 665 km (360 n.mi) (Gray 1981). (More rain falls in the inner portion of hurricane around the eyewall, less in the outer rainbands.) Converting this to a volume of rain gives 2.1 x 1016 cm3/day. A cubic cm of rain weighs 1 gm. Using the latent heat of condensation, this amount of rain produced gives
    5.2 x 1019 Joules/day or
    6.0 x 1014 Watts.

    This is equivalent to 200 times the world-wide electrical generating capacity – an incredible amount of energy produced!
    Method 2) – Total kinetic energy (wind energy) generated:
    1.3 x 1017 Joules/day or
    1.5 x 1012Watts.

    This is equivalent to about half the world-wide electrical generating capacity – also an amazing amount of energy being produced!

  • renewableguy renewableguy 1 year ago


    Since the early 1960′s from this graph it appears that the ocean has warmed over 200 x 10*31 joules. You may be able to see the huge difference between the heating of the oceans and the hurricane heat dissipation.

    There is this much extra energy to turn the ocean water into latent heat and water vapor to feed our storms.