Sunday, March 08, 2020
The wonder of water
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 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
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..
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.
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
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 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
Labels: Australia's summer 2019
