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ratbastid · 12-10-2007, 06:42 PM

So, I'm confused about the state of the environment. This isn't a Global Warming thread, or at least, not directly. It's more a Conservation of Mass thread.

Everywhere I hear about is under severe drought. Here in the Southeast, we've had a very unusually dry year. The technical term for our drought level is "exceptional", which is one step past "extreme". I know it's that way in the Midwest and Southwest too.

Today I read about Australia, which has been in severe drought for six years. Seems like everywhere you hear about the weather, there's drought.

Now, I've always understood that the water cycle is Earthbound--that no water ever LEAVES our planet. So the question is: Where IS all the water? Have ocean levels risen enough to account for the missing H2O? Are there places that are having floods and monsoons? Have aliens abducted our agua? What's going ON here?

12-10-2007, 06:42 PM	#1 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	Where is all the WATER? So, I'm confused about the state of the environment. This isn't a Global Warming thread, or at least, not directly. It's more a Conservation of Mass thread. Everywhere I hear about is under severe drought. Here in the Southeast, we've had a very unusually dry year. The technical term for our drought level is "exceptional", which is one step past "extreme". I know it's that way in the Midwest and Southwest too. Today I read about Australia, which has been in severe drought for six years. Seems like everywhere you hear about the weather, there's drought. Now, I've always understood that the water cycle is Earthbound--that no water ever LEAVES our planet. So the question is: Where IS all the water? Have ocean levels risen enough to account for the missing H2O? Are there places that are having floods and monsoons? Have aliens abducted our agua? What's going ON here?