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Go Global
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 by Admiral_CoeymanAm I the only person here who misses global warming? Are you sitting around freezing the hair off your head and wondering why the sky hasn’t hit the ground after all this time that it has spent falling? I was supposed to go and help a friend move an appliance early this week. He’s not happy with me right now because I held off to avoid getting trapped by the winter weather we’re having right now.
I am really sorry about that. I could not risk my insurance rates with my poor judgment on the roads and I could not risk getting stuck past a medical appointment. Would you want to drive with only 3 one hour naps? Odds are that you are a better driver than your humbled stand up philosopher. He’ll get an apology when my skill with words improves.
A population that lives in eternal crisis fatigues and gives up fighting. From there, it finds a peace that is the peace of the grave. I take very little of what I hear through the public information channels seriously because there is just too much to be gained by breaking the spirit of the general public. Does it show that, when I am not doing computer work or writing these essays, I plot conspiracies to capture worlds that nobody will ever hear about?
Back to the plot, if I can remember what it was. When you live in a green house, you notice that the temperature changes less than it does outside of the greenhouse. When you increase the thermal mass of an atmosphere, it becomes harder to change the temperature of that atmosphere. Some places get warmer and other places get colder to even out the thermal energy level of the whole system. There is still temperature variation, but it is much less than you would find in a desert.
So, let me conclude by introducing another climate concept, or at least naming one as if it didn’t already have a name. Let me introduce the desert effect. When the atmosphere loses thermal mass, it becomes possible for the temperature range, both high and low temperatures, to shift radically within the span of a single day. Remember that the major gas involved in temperature maintenance is water vapor. Would you not rather have global warming?
