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On Jun 24, 8:59?pm, "Steve Barker"
wrote: Yeah and that record breaking deep freeze of a winter we just had. Al gore can suck a dick. -- Steve Barker Does that "record breaking deep freeze winter" you meniton support a position that the climate cannot be changing? Just because the *globe* may be warming, that wouldn't have to mean that parts of it might not get colder. In fact, if you study up on the way that temperature differentials between the poles and the tropics generate winds and currents and how those winds and currents contribute to local weather patterns, a warmer overall global temperature can easily result in weird weather in certain sections of the planet. Warmer temperatures at the poles, regardless of cause, can really screw up winds and currents, and when the polar temperatures rise more than the equatorial temperatures that changes the dynamic of the thermal differential. Tidal currents will remain pretty much the same, and those are more prominent in coastal areas than convection currents. The biggest risk to boating could be a marked increase in the frequency or intensity of gale force winds, or maybe a serious decline in the normal amount of wind and that would upset sailors a lot. I found the basic theory of wind and current generation not all that tricky a subject to tackle, and it comes in handy when listening to marine weather forecasts and noting the changes between high and low pressure cells. |
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