Saturday, February 13, 2016

Global warming and Ice Ages are directly related

To most people this is counterintuitive so that mostly it is only PHds in Climate Science that fully understand this.

I talked to a friend today with 200 IQ and he was very surprised I understood this because it is counterintuitive. However, it is also a fact of life we all live with.

Here is the basic dynamic:

Global warming warms the oceans (not the land necessarily)

Being closer to 90 to 100 degrees in ocean temperatures evaporation increases exponentially.

As this exponential release of water into the air through evaporation increases there are exponentially more clouds in the sky.

This causes exponentially more rain and snow to come down everywhere it doesn't create droughts.

This continues to increase.

At some point a Polar Vortex comes down like it has now on the East Coast

10 inches of rain moving into a Polar vortex creates 10 feet of snow.

When these two things intersect under the right conditions you have a short or long term ice age.

Because with 10 feet of snow this snow then creates more snow, which more snow sticks to so it doesn't rain in that area it only snows for longer and longer periods during that year.

Then if it doesn't melt off one summer all precipitation would be encouraged by the refrigeration effect to continue to come down as snow on a year to year basis because snow is colder than land.

So, snow doesn't need to stick on snow because it is cold enough to stay snow when it lands on snow.

So, as the snow builds it is less likely to melt because of more and more snow.

The snow refrigerates the air and then more snow tends to keep coming down.

This is how an ice age starts.

I envision this (because storms tend to go from California, Oregon and Washington) East mostly except for the ones that hit the south coming through Mexico or Canada, that the ice age would be from the High Sierras in California with Mexico about being the lower border of the ice sheet.

This ice sheet would start at the Sierras and go all the way across the nation to the East Coast and continue through Europe likely north of Italy where the Alps meet the rest of Europe, it might even cover half of Italy too. It could also extend at that lattitude all across Asia as well.

So, an Ice age starts traditionally with Global Warming. This is what the average person doesn't understand worldwide.

So, to begin with 90 to 100 degree oceans cause evaporation when combined with a polar vortex and about 10 inches of rain that becomes 10 feet of snow creates a short or long or longer ice age. The snow then refrigerates the land which also tends to refrigerate the oceans and they slowly reduce temperature over 100 or more years. This appears to be the dynamic of ice ages in action.

The average is 10,000 years of warm weather then 100,000 years of ice age.

This is a normal average for the planet we live on.

We have already had 15,000 years of warmer weather so we are due now for an ice age.

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