The situation is similar to water
draining out of a bathtub.
Not exact matches
«There was no doubt in my mind, if the water goes
out of the
bathtub, we're going to be the last bank that goes down the
drain, and that just wasn't going to happen,» he says.
The level
of water in a
bathtub is controlled by the rate
of water flowing in through the faucet and the efficiency by which water leaks
out through the
drain.
In a pinch, you could even use your
bathtub, as long as you're super-careful about cleaning
out any soap residue and whatnot, and sealing the
drains carefully so that there are no holes
of any kind to get into.
The water actually
drains out of the lake from the bottom through sinkholes, like a giant
bathtub and then travels through a 10 - mile series
of underwater caves, resurfacing at the Maligne Canyon.
Because the
drains out of the various
bathtubs involved in the climate — atmospheric concentrations, the heat balance
of the surface and oceans, ice sheet accumulations, and thermal expansion
of the oceans — are small and slow, the emissions we generate in the next few decades will lead to changes that, on any time scale we can contemplate, are irreversible.