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]]> By: Peter Maier http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2011/world/weather-extremes-floods-droughts-tornadoes-and-extreme-heat-plague-much-of-u-s/#comment-18352 Peter Maier Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:38:55 +0000 http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/?p=30647#comment-18352 When you have a driver’s license, you know how to drive a car, but when the car will not start, you bring it to someone who knows how cars are supposed to work, so he can do his analysis of what is wrong and fix it. Before fixing anything, it therefore is always advisable to first understand the basics, but when one reads about global warming and weather, we deal with the atmosphere and what is happening to the molecules that make up the atmosphere and I yet have to read what happens with these molecules. After some reading I know that they move with horrendous speed (oxygen at 1,600 miles per hour), pending their molecular weights and bump into each other. Their speed also depends on the temperature, as a result of electromagnetic waves adsorbed form the sun or the Earth. Common sense tells us that there must be relationship between the dispersion of molecules and their speeds, and, if that is the case, it will explain why dispersion (of energy) is slower when you have more larger (slower moving) molecules as the result of the burning of fossil fuels. If dispersion would be instantaneous, there would not be any weather conditions.

Maybe if people would learn more about the basic principles of how molecules making up the air behave, it may be easier to convince them (even Senator Inhofe) that we are dealing with a serous issue and that any more increase of larger molecules in our atmosphere, will delay dispersion and thus cause more weather-related problems.

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