re: It is interesting that
you mentioned Lake Superior, I am familiar with the water level of lake Huron which is down stream from lake Superior and lake Huron links directly to Lake Michigan. It seems to me that the water level of lake Huron has dropped more than six feet in four years, I am wondering if you can show mathematically where those millions of gallons of water went.
In other words, mathematics is a wonderful tool, but without the proper numbers that are obtained from real observation and experiments, the results of the computations are meaningless.
Lake Huron
Since its French discoverers knew nothing as yet of the other lakes, they called it La Mer Douce, the sweet or fresh-water sea. A Sanson map in 1656 refers to it as Karegnondi.
Huron is the second largest Great Lake (although Lake Huron-Michigan, at 45,300 mi2 / 117,400 km2 is technically the world's largest freshwater lake. This is because what have traditionally been called Lake Huron and Lake Michigan are really giant lobes of a single lake connected by the five mile wide Strait of Mackinac.) It has the longest shoreline of the Great Lakes, counting its 30,000 islands.
Surface Area: 22,973 mi2 / 59,500 km2
Volume: 850 mi3 / 3,540 km3
Length: 206 mi / 331 km
Depth: 194 ft / 59 m average; 748 ft / 229 m maximum
Shoreline Length: 3,827 miles / 6,157 km (including islands)
Elevation: 581 ft / 177 m
Outlet: St. Clair River to Lake Erie
Retention/Replacement Time: 22 years
Somewhere on the internet
RL said:
Now lets make the slightly more realistic assumption the energy is deposited into the ocean and atmosphere...
to heat the ocean/air combination 1 degree requires ~6*10^24 J- over 1 TRILLION 1kt explosions.
If you seriously think the radioactives released an amount of energy anything near that amount, then please explain to me how we are still alive? The sun gives us 3000 joules pere square meter per second- the energy you need is on the order of 10 million times more than what the sun gives us per second....
Hmmm…..Perhaps ignorance is bliss, especially in your case.
What you seem to be saying is that the 3000 joules per sq. meter per second of energy that the Sun radiates to Earth is 10 million times less than what is needed to heat the Earth’s atmosphere by one degree. If that is the case then why is it warm in California?
Johannes
