Flow of the World

Mark Thoma has a good Post on a Project seminar of ordinary citizens, asking them how to fix the current debt levels of Government. They came up with higher taxes as the No. 1 choice; of course, they were not lobbyed. Read the Commentaries as well, as of equal interest. PGL at Angry Bear has a good Posting on the actual growth generated by the Bush Tax Cuts, nothing new, but good methodology for evaluation. Menzie Chinn highlights Administration fielding of Questions on the current climate; I also have read the Critten book, and wondered how much certain Parties paid to have it written (not slander, but simply research for my own personal advancement).

I, like dear Michael, am a Layperson; with even less scientific base than the esteemed author. Still, I must pontify of my Thoughts on Gobal Warming. My belief remains more down to earth than Greenhouse Gases. Work has been done on Heat Centers--places where Population density emits higher Heat levels, than do uninhabited areas. Heat Center interiors can be as much as 4 degrees higher in Temperatures. Climate is determined by Wind patterns more than anything else. Higher Heat Updrafts block and devert Wind patterns, as well as reduce their intensity. Human population expansion over the last Century, especially the last 50 years, have been placed within the natural Flow channels of Wind patterns. An appreciable amount of Wind pattern movement is being deflected back into ocean areas, from where it normally came ashore. Many areas of previously greater Rainfall are getting less Rain than was the average of a half-Century ago; most noteably Northern and Central Africa, and the American Midwest and Southwest.

The lack of Rainfall in the central-belt of the World creates greater absorption of Solar heat, and occular Wind patterns push this excess heat onto traditional Glacier formations with the abscence of normal Rain patterns. Did I sound as good as Michael Critten? Ah, I knew I wouldn't. lgl