And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is. About 1400 cubic kilometers of water evaporate from the oceans and the rest of the surface of the planet each day. This water returns in the form of rain, and that is fresh water.
I bet this happens a lot. Can't say "regularly" because that implies something like a predictable schedule when reality is more like "it happens when conditions are right".
An awful lot of fresh water in that ice - be cool if it could have been moved to where it could be used....
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DeleteAbout 1400 cubic kilometers of water evaporate from the oceans and the rest of the surface of the planet each day.
This water returns in the form of rain, and that is fresh water.
We are all going to die. - Snakepit
ReplyDeleteWhere's Al Gore when the world needs him? 7000 polar bears when he was born, only 30,000 left today.
ReplyDeleteI bet this happens a lot. Can't say "regularly" because that implies something like a predictable schedule when reality is more like "it happens when conditions are right".
ReplyDeleteThey just won't give up their religious mantra - "human induced climate change".
ReplyDeleteI wish those dimensions were translated into American. Eff'in metric.
ReplyDeleteShrieks and gasps and narratives, oh my! Yawn...earth doing earth things.
ReplyDeleteHumans really have an exaggerated attitude regarding their value to the planet.
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