Deserts & Droughts: How Does Land Ever Get Water
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Are you afraid the planet is drying out from Global Warming? Don't be. This short book explains why the Warming Alarmist position on droughts is upside-down, backwards and inside-out. It all has to do with how land ever gets water. Without warming, all the lands of Earth would be dry as a bone.
Simple Format with Simple, but Compelling Facts
* Chapter 1 presents the Warming Alarmist claim, quoting several sources, and critiquing their statements with critical thinking and logic.
* Chapter 2 presents the counter-claim, backing it up with quotes and sources.
* Chapter 3 explains what's really going on in nature, how droughts occur, and our big question -- how land ever gets water in the first place.
* Chapter 4 presents empirical evidence from numerous sources that back up the counter-claim, effectively debunking the Warming Alarmist position
The book also includes sources, notes, video resources and more.
Sequel to #1 Bestselling Book, Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear
Deserts & Droughts is the next book in the Climate Basics series -- based on the #1 Bestseller in AMZ Science & Math short reads, and #2 Bestseller in AMZ Weather category.
Rod Martin, Jr
Rod Martin, Jr. was born in West Texas, United States. He has been a Hollywood artist, a software engineer with a degree summa cum laude, a writer, web designer and a college professor.Rod Martin's interests have ranged from astronomy to ancient history, physics to geology, and graphics arts to motion pictures.He has studied comparative religion, worked as a lay minister and spiritual counselor, and taught ethics in college.While doing graphic arts in Hollywood, he also studied electronic engineering. In 1983, as Carl Martin, he published his first novel, "Touch the Stars: Emergence," co-authored by John Dalmas (Tor Books, NY). He continues to write science fiction under that pen name.Later, switching careers to computers and information technology, Mr. Martin worked for Control Data, Ceridian Payroll, Bank of America, Global Database Marketing and IPRO Tech. He also created "Stars in the NeighborHood" 3D astronomy space software.He currently resides in the Philippines with his wife, Juvy. He has taught information technology, mathematics and professional ethics at Benedicto College, in Cebu. He continues to teach online and to write books and blogs.
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Deserts & Droughts - Rod Martin, Jr
Deserts & Droughts
How Does Land Ever Get Water?
Rod Martin, Jr.
Climate Basics series
"You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst." — William Langewiesche, Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert, 1996, Pantheon.
Smashwords Edition
May 2019
Published by Tharsis Highlands Publishing
https://tharsishighlands.wordpress.com/books/
Copyright 2018, 2019 Rod Martin, Jr.
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof in any form.
Acknowledgements
Cover photo: Desert sunset by S.saban (CC BY-SA 4.0). Cover design by Rod Martin, Jr.
Changes
2019:0527—A paragraph in Chapter 4 on the Gobi Desert was deleted. I had wanted to add the source documentation for that paragraph, but could no longer locate the article by a Chinese author. If anyone locates this article concerning shrinking desert size by global warming and higher carbon dioxide content, please contact the author.
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Climate Basics series
Climate Basics: Nothing to Fear, by Rod Martin, Jr.—an Amazon #1 Bestseller
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from Chapter 2: Counter-Claim — Deserts and Droughts Diminish from More Warming
The Eocene Epoch (56.0–33.9 Myrs ago) was one of the warmest periods in Earth’s history. After Australia separated from Antarctica, ocean current patterns changed significantly, leading to a prolonged period of cooling. With that cooling, Earth dried out. This is common knowledge throughout the geological and paleoclimate literature.
The University of California Museum of Paleontology says this about the grand cooling
period: By the Late Eocene, the new ocean circulation resulted in a significantly lower mean annual temperature, with greater variability and seasonality worldwide. The lower temperatures and increased seasonality drove increased body size of mammals, and caused a shift towards increasingly open savanna-like vegetation, with a corresponding reduction in forests.
The increasing dryness led to the elimination of some forests, replacing them with grass and brush....
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Contents
Introduction: Some Like it Hot
Chapter 1: Bogus Claims About Deserts and Droughts
Chapter 2: Counter-Claim — Deserts and Droughts Diminish from More Warming
Chapter 3: How it All Works — Rain, Droughts and Deserts
Chapter 4: Empirical Evidence About Deserts and Droughts
Appendix
References
Notes
Videos
Links to Illustrations
About the Author
Other Books
Connect
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Introduction: Some Like it Hot
This book is all about how land ever gets water and how the climate change confusion on this topic is leading people to think some pretty crazy ideas about our climate system.
How does water ever get onto land? The simple answer is: rain. But in order to understand why rain happens, we need to look at the water cycle. That’s coming up a little later in the book. But first, let’s take a brief look at one of the key ingredients in the water cycle—heat.
I grew up in West Texas, which is hot enough during the summers. I did not want to have more heat. Living in Los Angeles for twenty-five years gave me plenty of mild climate. So, why would I move to Phoenix, Arizona in 1997? The answer is pretty straightforward: A job opportunity while California had become increasingly hostile to the middle class.
But Phoenix’s desert climate is hot—sizzling hot. The mean maximum temperature during the summer months is about 45°C (113°F). Throughout the city, there is very little in the way of covered parking, so a car, with all the windows rolled up, becomes a blast furnace. Protection for seats and steering wheels becomes vital. After my first summer, though, I had become acclimated to that heat. And that surprised