Sunday, March 08, 2020

The wonder of water

When I look at our still very green tomatoes and wish the sun would come through and do its wonderful work again, I also think of the wonder of those stable three amigos C N and O ( Carbon Nitrogen and Oxygen ) and their not so simple friend the Proton .
Someone very smart made H and O to work together so well that it absorbs such a wide range of radiation as a liquid and yet, as a gas, it can reflect things and universally and throughout the universe lets the heat and the light through; And that doesn't include the wonderful creative reality that as a solid, it expands, preserving the opportunity for other creative forces to work under water in particular ,
We might be well schooled, but we are not very well educated.
Our post modern people feel things rather than think things through.  We are prone to think in a superficial way about all the facts that crowd and cloud our days..
Take a simple reality like humidity,  which we can’t see or even feel .( except indirectly) 
Compare it to temperature,  which we can all feel; minute by minute and day by day.   
Australia's summer of 2019 We all felt the temperature this summer , but we missed seeing the water in the air  .
Even though  80 % of the world’s surface is covered by  it in a form that we can see , we often don’t see it hovering over our dry land .
The sun and spin quietly move water it into higher and lower positions on the earth .  We don’t easily see that the air is fairly full of water , most of the time . It only takes a little push and the wonderful medicine will  drop right out 

We didn't see the water in late 2019,  when some felt “ the hottest and driest summer ever”. 
We missed seeing the substantial unseen fact that it was smoky at the same time as the bushfires were on  .

We were , as a country , running on our feelings,  not sound science. The reason that it was smoky is because  high humidity limits combustion . It wasn’t as dry and dangerous as many felt it was.
Despite all the feelings about it , the earth does not warm just because we burn fossil fuels . The higher humidity from combustion actually helps cloud out the sun’s daily warming effect .

We didn't see the water in the air  this February either. Our newly wetted land couldn't shake the rain and the clouds  because it kept rising up to fall all over again
I wrote this piece this morning https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-2brhDWqXNy3oOG54sst91rN1gC9nfRMFs6kTsjpBJE/edit?usp=sharing

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