Climate Cafe

Scientists say that earth’s temperature has gone up .6 degrees C in the last century. The measured increase in ocean temperature is coupled with a rise in ocean level over that time period of 18 cm.

It got me thinking about people who scorn this kind of information and think that a small increase in temperature might not be that significant. So I crunched the numbers. Earth is covered by 1.4 Billion cubic km of water. Most of that in deep ocean water that covers 75% of the planets surface. What if the heat the scientists were talking about was all focused on Canada’s water? How much water could be heated to the boiling point: 100 degrees C?

Turns out, that if all the heat added to the worlds oceans in the past century were focused on Canada, there would be enough heat to Bring to Boil all of Canada’s 890 000 km2 of fresh water including all of the Great Lakes as well as Hudson Bay and the Gulf of St Lawrence. And there would be heat left over to warm the Gulf of Mexico!

.6 degrees C, over the entire planet . . . that’s a lot of heat, and with it comes significant consequences as shown to the world in Nobel Prize winner Mr. Al Gore’s Academy Award winning movie An Inconvenient Truth.

Perhaps more people would pay attention and take action on the Global Climate Crisis if it was positioned as a Canada-Wide boil water emergency.