ok. some things to consider. first, matter can be neither created nor destroyed. second, water is matter, rather Hydrogen and Oxygen are matter... third, water is always here, it can be produced by some chemical reactions (and i don't mean the change of liquid to gas), but for the most part, the amount of water on the earth is practically a steady volume.
and for those of you who are right this very moment trying to think of a chemical reaction that 'creates' water, consider H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide), a highly reactive oxidizer and an acid, will decompose into water (and oxygen) if allowed to react in air (btw this is why hydrogen peroxide has an expiration date). therefore... 2 H2O2 → 2 H2O + O2. :) i liked that part of chemistry!
back to my point... during a "global warming", doesn't that mean the polar ice caps melt? doesn't that also mean that all that water from the melting ice caps has to go somewhere, hence why a concern is rising sea level? supposedly only 3% of all water on the earth is freshwater (non-ocean water held in lakes, rivers, groundwater, etc.)
drum roll please... here is my discussion (this blog is a lot of "know this so you can follow my train of thought"):
if the oceans are becoming fresher (diluting the salt), then are the actual ocean currents shutting down? because... it is the ocean that feeds moisture into the atmosphere (called the hydrologic cycle), and the atmosphere (and the ocean) currents are driven by the spin of the earth.
from the newsweek list of endangered lakes, i noticed most of them (save the SE US which are probably so low because just too many folks are using it and naturally the SE is a desert therefore water is not in abundance)... are located along the eastern edge of continents (eastern africa, eastern asia, eastern australia, eastern NAmerica) - so really. does this mean the ocean currents are shutting down from all the freshwater?
once i took a class on global climate change. it was the most awesome one ever. i wish i could take it again right now.
incidentally, we ate at ruby tuesday's this evening (they have the best CRABCAKE that you can't make at home). at our request, we both got water. there was even ice in it (without an extra charge). funny thing is is that nathaniel got a refill (without his request although his glass was empty of liquid water, but was half full of ice). my glass, however, never was refilled. i ended up drinking some of his second glass then eating the ice. i wondered if they (the ignorant people who think it is agst the law to serve water but tea is ok) realize that ice is water too. when will the drinks be served sans ice?
ok. i'll stop now.
funny you say that about ruby tuesdays. when mark and i were at mac. grill, I asked for water and the waitress went into some big speach saying they were trying to conserve their tap, would i like to buy a bottled water (from italy no doubt.) When she stopped by the table later, she was carrying a pitcher of water. I just looked at mark like wtf, why couldn't i have regular water instead of a $3 imported water? so silly because they weren't offering bottled tea...
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