GLOBAL STORMING?

Seedling Starting From a Stump (click image for detail)

Melting Ice Plates?  Holes in the ozone layer?  Car exhaust, Cow farts, excuse me…..  “greater than before methane levels”.  Isn’t something being over looked here in relation to our Ocean’s rising water levels?  Is it at all possible that our explanations of melting ice plates are backwards?  Do we have the “carriage in front of the horse”?

Maybe the Oceans are not growing because of melting ice shelves and plates due to warm air.  Maybe the Ice plates and shelves are melting because the Oceans are growing.  Maybe global warming is not because the air is getting warmer, but because the planets largest lakes (oceans) are getting larger and warmer: and warming up the air. 

So here is a consideration, from someone with no qualifications, to kick around.  Go pick up a stack (a dozen for example) of 8ft. 2x4’s.  Fir or pine of course, fresh from the mill.  Now, if you still have a back, pick up another stack of 8ft. 2x4’s.  This time kiln dried.  WOW!! What a difference.  Same size, same length, same type of wood and a fraction of the weight.  So, where in the hell does the water go?  Hmmmm………..

Indecently, you just picked up about 63.96 board feet of lumber.  Washington State’s forest products industry claims to have produced 4 billion, yes billion, board feet of lumber just in 1999 alone.  How much evaporated water would that put back into the Oceans?  And that is just one state.  What about Oregon, California, Idaho, Alaska, British Columbia?  How about all the timber in Siberia being cut, South America, New Zealand, South Africa.., where should I stop.  It’s a staggering amount of trees being cut.  Trees that hold tens of thousands of gallons of water.  EACH!!  Water that gradually, and inevitably with contribute to the levels of the planets largest water storage areas.

The journey of water from evaporation to mountain precipitation to the ocean could be slowed considerably by a thirsting water hungry tree.  Whether it is from the ground, or a lake, river or stream.  So by removing a tree, not only has more water been put up for grabs, but there is one less “storage unit” to grab it. 

The question here is whether or not the rate at which water storing organisms, like trees, are being removed; is faster that they can grow.  If that’s the case then our Oceans have to increase in volume regardless of other contributing factors in the equation of Global Warming.

If it is possible for the Oceans to rise because of unwise harvest of huge water storing organisms, like trees, then there is no end to cause and effect.  For starters, the huge ice shelves/plates, that also store water, are buoyant.  As Ocean levels raise so will areas of these huge ice plates.  Creating huge “fault lines” or seduction zones.  Huge, long areas of friction that will melt the ice even faster and break it into smaller pieces.  Maybe the “Ice Age” was caused from an imbalance of too many trees holding too much water from the planets Oceans.  If the Oceans become too small certainly their ability to moderate is in jeopardy.  Maybe the cataclysmic earthquakes that ended the ice age were caused because the “floating” land plates crumbled under the weight of too many trees holding too much water? 

Heck, who knows?  But with all being said and written these days about Global Warming, I wish someone with qualifications would accredit the concept of water being transferred out from trees to our Oceans.  We are just creating a more humid fish bowl.  The water is coming up, but the lid remains in the same place.  We are creating a smaller atmospheric wind tunnel with more water in it.  Global Storming?