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18167
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: The world's rivers are drying up and glaciers melting - QUESTION
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Where is all the water going? Seriously--not being a smart aleck. |
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18194
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The world's rivers are drying up and glaciers melting - QUESTION
| Um, into the oceans? |
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18177
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Climate crisis is speeding the water cycle, satellite data reveals
URL: article here
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The climate crisis is making the water cycle spin faster and faster. New research published in Scientific Reports last month found satellite evidence that the water cycle is speeding up, as fresh ocean water becomes fresher and salty ocean water becomes saltier. Implications of an accelerated water cycle “The acceleration of the water cycle has implications both at the ocean and on the continent, where storms could become increasingly intense,” study lead author Estrella Olmedo of the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM) in Barcelona said in a press release. The water cycle is the term for how water first evaporates from the Earth, rises into the atmosphere to form clouds and then falls again as rain or snow, as NASA explains. The climate crisis is naturally speeding this process because warmer temperatures cause water to evaporate faster, the press release explained. It is possible to tell if this process is accelerating by measuring the salinity of surface ocean water. This is because some ocean water turns saltier as the fresh water evaporates, while already fresher water is further diluted by heavy rainfall, ScienceAlert explained. However, it’s hard to measure this with ocean buoys because they tend to measure water slightly below the surface. Satellites, however, measure at the surface and can provide a steady stream of data from all parts of the ocean regardless of location or condition, according to the study and the press release. “These results highlight the crucial importance of using satellites to unveil critical changes on ocean–atmosphere fluxes,” the study authors wrote. Climate models have predicted that the water cycle could intensify by as much as seven percent for every degree Celsius of global warming, which means that wet areas would get seven percent wetter and dry areas seven percent drier, ScienceAlert said. In addition to raising the risk of extreme weather events like heavy rainstorms and drought, a faster water cycle could contribute to the melting of polar ice. “This higher amount of water circulating in the atmosphere could also explain the increase in rainfall that is being detected in some polar areas, where the fact that it is raining instead of snowing is speeding up the melting,” Olmedo said in the press release. The changes in the water cycle could also be influenced by a decrease in wind in some parts of the ocean. “Where the wind is no longer so strong, the surface water warms up, but does not exchange heat with the water below, allowing the surface to become more saline than the lower layers and enabling the effect of evaporation to be observed with satellite measurements,” study co-author Antonio Turiel, also of ICM, said in the press release. |
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18172
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: The world's rivers are drying up and glaciers melting - QUESTION
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God is giving it to folks who aren't used to much rain. the earth is out of balance because God has been forgotten and the help God gave us in the ten commandments are being ignored. marriage? forgotten as a commandment by God. Stealing, even the government is doing it. we are in tribulations as foretold in the bible. however we will get though this and then peace. i would guess a length of time but i am always wrong. the messages i post so far are true and they are coming true day by day. |
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18168
From: Jeff/Lake Almanor,CA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Water is like Energy
URL: https://gml.noaa.gov/education/info_activities/pdfs/CTA_the_water_cycle.pdf
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How water changes its form? The water cycle is self- renewing and continuous. The Sun provides the energy to power the water cycle. When water changes state in the water cycle, the total number of water particles remains the same. The changes of state include melting, sublimation, evaporation, freezing, condensation, and deposition. How energy changes form. Einstein said, “Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. In 1907 (I think), Albert Einstein announced his discovery of the equation E = mc2 and, as a consequence, the two laws above were merged into the Law of Conservation of Mass- Energy: the total amount of mass and energy in the universe is constant. This law, first proposed and tested by Émilie du Châtelet, means that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another. For instance, chemical energy is converted to kinetic energy when a stick of dynamite explodes. |
18170
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Water is where?
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Yes, I'm aware of this from way back when. ;-) Seems to me that a pretty terrific amount of water is being held somewhere and is apparently growing. The sky? It doesn't seem to be doing a cyclical thing in very much of the world lately. Oceans aren't rising. Are huge amounts going to be released all at once? Is the cycle going to become 'normal' again--whatever that is! Water's got to be stored somewhere in some form, but is all of the missing floating around overhead? Hmm...was there a drought prior to Noah's boat launching? |
18178
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Water is where? Perhaps....
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some of it is coming down as rivers emptying onto different parts of the world. Perhaps we'll see more of either drought or inundation. |
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18173
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Water is where?The Water Tables are Shifting
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a different video addressing this problem from same author. thanks I saw your reply. |
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18169
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Water is like Energy
| Thanks, you might want to watch this too. |
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18171
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Water is like Energy
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Thank you. See my response under Jeff's post. |
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