Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Canada Death Watch: Global Warming

A correspondent to a newsletter also worries about Canada's future: “If the North Pole did in fact melt and the northwest passage remained ice-free year after year, none of this would be worth discussing anymore. Canadians would have to head to the hills as much of our nation would be under water. The rising water levels alone would cause massive slumping of the land, mud/rock slides and unimaginable flooding. Better start building an Ark.”

Wait a minute. Let's think this through.

If the temperature rose, the polar ice caps would melt.

But the rate of evaporation would also rise. Ergo, that water would not all go to rising sea levels, but be balanced by more water rising into the atmosphere.

Higher rates of evaporation would produce heavier cloud cover.

Heavier cloud cover would block sunlight.

Blocking sunlight would reduce the surface temperature.

Damn.

How is this global warming thing supposed to work again?

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