Coby Beck wrote:
"John Sefton" wrote in message
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With a large % of the ice caps gone,
where does the water go?

Into the oceans.

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Coby Beck
(remove #\Space "coby 101 @ bigpond . com")

I am looking for a nice simple analogy to help support the claim of
drying out of the interiors of continents as Global Warming
intensifies.

Trouble I am encountering is that the drying out of interiors maybe
only a transitional effect and not a long term effect.

The analogy of a lid on a pot of simmering water and we watch how water
condenses on the inside of the lid and then falls back into the water.
It condenses and falls back into the water at its edges but that
probably has more to do with the shape of the lid.

I need an analogy that simulates the recycling of water that
differentiates land from oceans.

I need to address the idea that the amount of water that the land
masses of Earth receive in a year is fairly constant amount-- perhaps
even a zero net sum. So that if the land masses were to receive all of
its rainwater along the coasts of the continent in year 2007 then none
would fall in the interiors of the continents for 2007 because of zero
net sum dynamics. So that as hurricane activity increases and dumps the
water along the coasts means that the interior of the continent
receives that much less in rainfall and experiences a severe drought.

But I am not sure that the rainfall pattern follows a zero net sum
dynamics. That is only a hunch that needs checking into.

But I suppose that if one checks whether during a large volcanic
eruption that interfers with rainfall and increases rainfall for that
year and then whether in following years the rainfall reverts back to
what it was before the eruption indicates that rainfall is zero net sum
dynamics.

And the way that Global Warming affects rainfall if it is zero net sum
over long periods of time is that Global Warming increases hurricane
activity which then dumps alot of water on the coasts which would have
been dumped in normal years into the interiors. So overall, as Global
Warming intensifies then the drying out of interiors of continents
intensifies to the point where they slide into being deserts or
desertification of interiors such as the Midwest of the USA. And the
coasts not only are battered by hurricanes but are turned into flooding
zones.

It would be nice to model this dynamics from a simmering pot and it
would be nice to have an analogy that either denies or confirms whether
rainfall over continents follows a long term zero net sum dynamics.

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