(February 26, 2016 at 10:41 pm)Chas Wrote:I'm not usually into doing a page long essay, but as you seem interested I will make an exception.(February 26, 2016 at 3:58 pm)Mancunian Wrote: See my later post, theists don't have a monopoly on talking nonsense.
What point are you trying to make?
The point I was making was about the fact that dumping an extra 29000 feet worth of water on the earth would have had catastrophic effects on the atmosphere, I said something like" Noah would have been cold and most animals would struggle to survive"
Let me explain what I meant by that, I'm sure you have heard of the "El Nino" phenomena, this event often begins off the coast of South America aptly near Christmas time. El Nino events cause disruption of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical pacific and are in part responsible for weather that can cause loss of human life. They start with weakening of east to west trade winds and warming of eastern pacific ocean waters. This results in tropical rainfall shifting from Indonesia to South America. During non-El Nino conditions trade winds blow west across the tropical pacific and the warm surface water tends to pile up so that the sea surface can be 0.5m higher at Indonesia than at Peru, but hey what's sea level? Now the important bit, these are natural phenomena and part of the dynamic coupling of the earths atmosphere and ocean, fucking around with this system by dumping lets say 10000 feet more water upon the earth would interrupt the natural cycle of ocean-atmospheric coupling. Earths atmosphere is a dynamic system that is changing continuously while undergoing both physical and complex chemical processes. The atmosphere is composed of gas molecules held close to the earths surface by gravitation and thermal movement of air molecules, water vapour is also present in the lower few kilometres of atmosphere. The atmosphere is a continuously changing system. Physical movement of air masses, each with different temperature, pressure, moisture, and aerosol content, two important bits that we can measure are temp and pressure, pressure is force per unit area obviously, so as the area of the oceans increased the pressure would have decreased. Fuck this I can't be arsed.
