My Theory Of Salt

There was awards of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded this week for work relating to the earth's climate.

Let's take this opportunity to see how there are so many relatively simple things all around us that no one has ever pointed out. That is what so much of this blog is about. Here is something very important, but simple, about climate that had never been pointed out.

First we know that the water on earth must have come from one or more comets, which are basically composed of ice. Salt is so closely associated with water that it must also have arrived by comet, as we see in the following posting:

www.markmeekphysics.blogspot.com/2009/06/mystery-of-salt.html?m=0

One thing that I cannot see written about much is how the salt in the oceans modifies the weather on earth. A simple school experiment shows that water without salt evaporates faster than water with salt, so salt in water slows the evaporation process.

With more powerful storms being the result of global warming, which causes more water to evaporate, what kind of wild weather would we have if there was no salt in the oceans to slow down evaporation? This question is explored in the following posting:

www.markmeeklife.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-vital-role-of-salt.html?m=0 

Finally here is something that is very important to understanding our earth but I cannot see has ever been pointed out. Since salt must have arrived on earth, along with water, by comet the fact that there are salt mines and salt deserts on earth tells us that salt is being removed from the sea by tectonic processes that cause the uplifting of seafloor to become dry land.

This must mean that there was less rainfall in the past because more salt in the sea would have hindered evaporation. This has tremendous implications, meaning that there would be less fresh water available on land and less oxygen dissolved in the sea, because the splashing of raindrops dissolves the oxygen in water that fish need to breathe.

It may well have been impossible for life on earth to develop as it did until much of the salt had been removed from the sea. The concentration of salt in seawater today averages about 3.5%. 

I did an extensive search on Google and Yahoo and was amazed that this had apparently never been pointed out. It is explained in the following posting:

www.markmeeklife.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-removal-of-salt-from-sea.html?m=0