Oct 13, 2009: Floaters

[newtimer]

Why I don't believe in the religion of 'global' warming:
1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it);
2) Put an ice cube in the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass;
3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how);
4) Notice that the new water level has not gone up after the ice melted. If you have a large enough glass and water sample, you might even notice that the water level has gone DOWN slightly.

This, fellow bipeds, is SCIENCE. Anybody can replicate this experiment. Every time, the results will be the same. Yet Al Gore and his whiny followers continue to ignore science and push their contrary religion on us.

Also, I'm curious about the plumbing for the floating condo. Please tell me they've got some flexible tubes that tether the building with the mainland, for delivering fresh water in and carrying the waste out. Oh, please tell me that it's not an experiment in self-sufficiency where the fresh water gets pumped from the pond that the nasty stuff gets flushed into.

[Sheldonrs]

And don't come a knockin' if this complex is a rockin'!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by newtimer

Why I don't believe in the religion of 'global' warming:
1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it);
2) Put an ice cube in the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass;
3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how);
4) Notice that the new water level has not gone up after the ice melted. If you have a large enough glass and water sample, you might even notice that the water level has gone DOWN slightly.

That's fine for the Arctic, where the ice is floating on the water. But the Antarctic ice is on land, as are the glaciers in Greenland, and around the world.

[Hillrick]

Originally Posted by newtimer

Why I don't believe in the religion of 'global' warming:
1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it);
2) Put an ice cube in the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass;
3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how);
4) Notice that the new water level has not gone up after the ice melted. If you have a large enough glass and water sample, you might even notice that the water level has gone DOWN slightly.

Not just in agreement with xoxoxoxbruce here but adding that the inhabitants of several South seas islands that are disappearing beneath the waves would like to know if you mind them moving in with you...

[dar512]

Originally Posted by newtimer

Why I don't believe in the religion of 'global' warming:
1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it);
2) Put an ice cube in the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass;
3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how);
4) Notice that the new water level has not gone up after the ice melted. If you have a large enough glass and water sample, you might even notice that the water level has gone DOWN slightly.

This, fellow bipeds, is SCIENCE. Anybody can replicate this experiment. Every time, the results will be the same. Yet Al Gore and his whiny followers continue to ignore science and push their contrary religion on us.

Above and beyond Bruce's objections, I venture to say that there are any number of variables in the real world not represented in your water glass model.

If the real world were that easy to model, weather predictions would be correct every single day.

What you've got there is middle-school SCIENCE (Love the caps. You can almost hear the Dr. Science intro). And what's needed is graduate-level science - which is a lot more murky.

[classicman]

Lets try this again - VERY simplistically.....

1) Fill a glass halfway with salt water. (A 3% salt solution, if you can manage it);
2) Hold an ice cube above the water. Mark the current water level on the side of the glass;
3) Let the ice cube melt (via hair dryer, microwave oven, window sill, etc. It doesn't matter how);
4) Notice that the new water level has gone up after the ice melted.

This, fellow bipeds, is SCIENCE. Anybody can replicate this experiment. Every time, the results will be the same.

Just sayin'