There are an infinite amount of variables that effect the weather. Man’s roles is way down the list. Obviously the biggest factor is that big hot thing in the sky.
^ Good grief, Getaclue, you’re right! The sun! The sun has something to do with warming the planet. And no one has ever thought of that before. You, my friend, are brilliant. You deserve the Nobel Prize for science for that insight.
People underestimate the power of the small to make changes. Take the effects of rust (just harmless old H2O!) acting on a large ship. It’s working 365.25/24 to do it’s thing.
Well, it is the same with CO2. It works all the time (even in the dark) to keep heat in the atmosphere. Just as a little rust, left unchecked and unheeded will sink the mightiest ship, so CO2 will raise the temperature of the earth, even as the sun remains unchanged, or perhaps just very, very slightly cooler.
While this is not the first time the south has been chilled (and it won’t be the last), the effect of a warmer arctic means a weakening of the strong temperature gradient of the atmosphere between the tropics and the arctic. That means that jet streams, especially the polar stream (where high pressure is found) can wander further from its former range. Not regularly, but with increasing frequency.
There will be more weirdness in the weather. Harvey was atypical in that it kind of just sat off the coast for a while, picking up all that warm water. Jose was weird. It essentially died down to a small storm, wandered around and then picked up energy and went off (on a more normal track). Olivia was also kind of different.
The present fire season in California is related to the cold in the south. A high pressure area is causing warm winds from the Great Basin to flow into Southern California, bringing Santa Anna winds. That same high deflects cold north air to the south.
You would think after getting hit with record storms, then record cold, we would get a clue. This just makes the Trump-ublicans dig in deeper. No science, no way, no logic. That’ll keep those liberals crying, while the weather goes crazy for no reason!
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 6 years ago
What happened to Global Warming!?!?
getaclue over 6 years ago
There are an infinite amount of variables that effect the weather. Man’s roles is way down the list. Obviously the biggest factor is that big hot thing in the sky.
NeoconMan over 6 years ago
^ Good grief, Getaclue, you’re right! The sun! The sun has something to do with warming the planet. And no one has ever thought of that before. You, my friend, are brilliant. You deserve the Nobel Prize for science for that insight.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 6 years ago
People underestimate the power of the small to make changes. Take the effects of rust (just harmless old H2O!) acting on a large ship. It’s working 365.25/24 to do it’s thing.
Well, it is the same with CO2. It works all the time (even in the dark) to keep heat in the atmosphere. Just as a little rust, left unchecked and unheeded will sink the mightiest ship, so CO2 will raise the temperature of the earth, even as the sun remains unchanged, or perhaps just very, very slightly cooler.
While this is not the first time the south has been chilled (and it won’t be the last), the effect of a warmer arctic means a weakening of the strong temperature gradient of the atmosphere between the tropics and the arctic. That means that jet streams, especially the polar stream (where high pressure is found) can wander further from its former range. Not regularly, but with increasing frequency.
There will be more weirdness in the weather. Harvey was atypical in that it kind of just sat off the coast for a while, picking up all that warm water. Jose was weird. It essentially died down to a small storm, wandered around and then picked up energy and went off (on a more normal track). Olivia was also kind of different.
The present fire season in California is related to the cold in the south. A high pressure area is causing warm winds from the Great Basin to flow into Southern California, bringing Santa Anna winds. That same high deflects cold north air to the south.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=-118.40,40.01,564
Mr. Blawt over 6 years ago
You would think after getting hit with record storms, then record cold, we would get a clue. This just makes the Trump-ublicans dig in deeper. No science, no way, no logic. That’ll keep those liberals crying, while the weather goes crazy for no reason!