quote:Away from rivers and glaciers, the ocean has a salinity of about 35. The Atlantic is about 1 salinity units saltier than the Pacific. So ocean water freezes at about -1.91 degrees C.
quote:The freezing point of seawater is about 28.4F (-2C), instead of the 32F (0C) freezing point of ordinary water. Why do you think the freezing points are different? Right, because seawater has salt in it! As seawater increases 5 ppt in salinity, the freezing point decreases by 0.5F.
I wonder if Aaron will ever reply to this point. Maybe he is scrambling back to his fundie sites to try to find some sort of counter. Nah, he will just move onto some other inane, unsupported argument.
Edited by Theodoric, : No reason given.
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The thing is Aaron wants to play games with temperatures. Either that or he is blindly reciting something he read or heard or even possibly he doesn't know what he is talking about so doesn't realize how bone headed he sounded.
It is obvious that the info about the tuna he presented was in F and that the info about the whales was in C. The scary thing is he was unable to tell that his sources were using different temperature scales. But then again I tend to expect this from Creos.
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Tuna can swim in water down to 43 degrees, but whales can swim in much colder water - as cold as 0 degrees. Warm blood enables whales to inhabit extreme ecological zones - unlike fish of comparable structure.
If he was using celsius the tuna would be in very hot water. That is warmer than a hot tub.
Lets see what Aaron's explanation is for this. He needs to learn that fundie sites lie or are just plain wrong.
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