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Summer Weather Is Getting 'Stuck' Due To Arctic Warming (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Summer weather patterns are increasingly likely to stall in Europe, North America and parts of Asia, according to a new climate study that explains why Arctic warming is making heatwaves elsewhere more persistent and dangerous. Rising temperatures in the Arctic have slowed the circulation of the jet stream and other giant planetary winds, says the paper, which means high and low pressure fronts are getting stuck and weather is less able to moderate itself. The authors of the research, published in Nature Communications on Monday, warn this could lead to "very extreme extremes," which occur when abnormally high temperatures linger for an unusually prolonged period, turning sunny days into heat waves, tinder-dry conditions into wildfires, and rains into floods.
One cause is a weakening of the temperature gradient between the Arctic and Equator as a result of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The far north of the Earth is warming two to four times faster than the global average, says the paper, which means there is a declining temperature gap with the central belt of the planet. As this ramp flattens, winds struggle to build up sufficient energy and speed to push around pressure systems in the area between them. As a result, there is less relief in the form of mild and wet air from the sea when temperatures accumulate on land, and less relief from the land when storms build up in the ocean.
One cause is a weakening of the temperature gradient between the Arctic and Equator as a result of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The far north of the Earth is warming two to four times faster than the global average, says the paper, which means there is a declining temperature gap with the central belt of the planet. As this ramp flattens, winds struggle to build up sufficient energy and speed to push around pressure systems in the area between them. As a result, there is less relief in the form of mild and wet air from the sea when temperatures accumulate on land, and less relief from the land when storms build up in the ocean.
Due to electing TRUMP, you are going to cause all the icebergs/glaciers to melt.
This. Means. War.
Give me 30 degree Celsius all year around , and I wll not complain, Make it happen, much sooner than later.
I will be dead by the time I give a fuck.
âoeThe Trump administration disbanded a 15-person advisory committee that helped communicate scientific climate change findings to businesses and government officials, making data from the National Climate Assessment "more accessible and useful to private sector/civic organizations and state/municipal governments for their use in planning and decisionmaking."â
Iâ(TM)m guessing trump doesnâ(TM)t notice the weather because his head is up heâ(TM)s ass.
Once the Hadley cells start to expand we'll see some additional fun. Enjoy the last year or two of normalcy.
I'm really get used to the weather that has temperatures in the 70's and 80's with plenty of rainfall in the middle of August here on the plains.
Now, come back when you have an actual, scientific ENGINEERING PLAN to combat it in a way that doesn't involve
Until then, POLITELY FUCK THE HELL OFF!
I live in South Carolina. We did not have a Summer this year.
Go look at the SUN data since man has been looking at it. From the 1600's, you can pretty much lay the temperature changes, with relation to the sunspot cycle. In periods of "calm" due to no or very little sunspot activity, along with low to moderate CME ejections, the weather patterns change. In periods of high sunspot activity & high CME ejections, the weather patterns globally change. The Medieval maximum, the global average temperatures were on par or higher than they are today. Now how in the hockey sticks was man responsible for that? During the 90's, the era of "Algore" hysteria, happened to parallel what is called the modern maximum, during solar cycles 22-23ish. It was called "man made" because they were able to play on people's fear of NOT KNOWING the science of the temperature patterns and how people see "history". Pretty much, your view of history, starts when you are born. It's "never" been this good/bad". Plus, they use "shady" climate data. Data from temperature stations on roof tops, with black tar paper, near airports, etc. And, using 4, 5, 10,20 years worth of "data" to stay trends indicate....10-20 years worth of data? In relation to the age of the Earth, which is how many millions or billions of years old? Nope, it's all hysteria, playing on the fear of people, to get the "haves" to give up to the "have nots" or in this case, to bring capitalism down, bring up more global control over everything and make the entire world miserable under a "new world order" to quote a-hole George Bush (41).
"Global Constipation"
Table-ized A.I.
"...As this ramp flattens, winds struggle to build up sufficient energy and speed to push around pressure systems in the area between them. As a result, there is less relief in the form of mild and wet air from the sea when temperatures accumulate on land, and less relief from the land when storms build up in the ocean...."
Which just means that the differences between continental and maritime wind patterns will be that much stronger which meaning the gradient will be less about N/S coriolis patterns and more driven by surface topology. It doesn't mean the winds are going to be weaker, there's still as much energy in the system - more, in fact, if you believe in general systemic warming - it's just going to shove the gradients around.
-Styopa
More than 1/3 of co2 being emitted is from china. In addition, china is by far the largest in terms of total emissions across all time frames. Now china not grows their own, but also continues to grow co2 emissions in other nations. The only place for Putin to increase oil/nat gas is china, who will likely do to Russia, what they are doing to Venezuela.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Considering how many people in the US believes science is fake, how about setting up a lot of very large fans and tell people they will be used to circulate air and it will slowly help eliminate the heat waves.
But remember keep the real use of the very large fans secret
Have all nations drop their emissions together. We need to get to the levels of Denmark and Finland . They have some of the lowest, and correct levels. The question is how to measure, which really needs to be sats. Only a few nations are well measured, and we have nations like china with a communist gov, that prohibits it. So, sats will at least be precise. And then normalisation should be emission /$GDP( real ). That will cause all give and businesses to drop emissions.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I hate winter, have to burn dinosaur carcasses to keep warm.
And have to drink lots of ocean water to keep the levels down.
BTW, been to southern NJ lately? The ocean is about a mile offshore the water's so low now.
What a scam. Next scam is the shortage of fresh water. Set your clocks. They'll be locking in your votes to solve that one like they solved global warming.
All the grass turned yellow. Never has anyone here ever seen such a thing.
The trees looked like in fall. Yellow leaves everywhere.
The animals that didn’t have access to rivers or lakes, just plain *died.*
Entire rivers ran dry! Something we only knew from watching documentaries about extreme desert regions in Africa on TV.
Ships were unable to use many rivers or had to reduce their load.
Lakes were closed off for swimming due to algae bloom. With most fish in them dying.
And even with all the water the farmers could afford to buy, many crops dried out.
Have this only one or two more years, and you're going to see food prices go up like crazy, entire regions of land turning into literal desert, shitloads of wild animals just plain dying, and then, people dying from starvation or getting sick because they can’t afford food anymore.
At least in central Europe, this summer, really /everyone/ got the memo. Shit got way too real. We realized how quickly we could just be done.
Something will change. Finally.
Yay, no more winter. Summer forever.
Its a complex system with feedback.
It has no will for end goal.
It has never 'moderated' itself in the way that statement implies.
It may have more 'moderate' behavior at times.
That's right! WE DO!
I'm not a fan of China, but we can't outsource all our dirty shit to China, and then point to China and blame only them.
Every piece of cheap crap we consume, is US killing ourselves by ruining our home (the planet).
(And we buy cheap crap because we let the leeches take by far most of our money in-between sale price and salary. With salaries based on work time times skill alone, and making profit, as opposed to actually earned money, a crime, like theft and robbery, we could afford things that don't ruin the planet. ... Buut I bet most people are already too mentally disabled nowadays, to not buy the cheap crap anyway "BECAUSE MOAR".)
Won't do any good. It got 98F in Ontario this month and the pussies started dropping like flies. As in died. 98 is a LOW temp where I live. Come back when you enjoy a nice 121F in the shade, weaklings.
For 200 years either side of the year 1000 of the common era, Vikings raised cattle, wheat and barley in multiple locations on the Greenland Coast. For 400 years.
It's too cold today regardless of what the Climate Profits (sic) predict.
Good day
We don't need your "help", Conservatard. You're part of the goddamned problem.
Because China is 4 times bigger you ignorant fuck. Per person, the only sane measurement, America is over twice as bad.
Just more bullshit, there's no such thing as a greenhouse gas, it's a failed theory that doesn't make sense at all. The additional warmth of the earth's surface is due to adiabatic compression of the atmosphereby gravity. This is why Venus' surface is much hotter; it has 90 times the atmospheric pressure of Earth.
Instead of bringing up the problem again and again I'd like to see more discussions on solutions.
I like hydro, nuclear, and wind as solutions. Those seem to come out on top on every selection parameter I could come up with.
I'm also a fan of the Pickens Plan.
http://pickensplan.com/the-pla...
That plan is to use as much natural gas to replace imported oil as we can while we develop alternatives.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
Once the Hadley cells start to expand we'll see some additional fun.
So as the atmosphere expands, it becomes less dense. The baseline surface pressure won't be 1013 hpa anymore. It goes down to, say, 1005. A stormy future ahead!
It's clear who's causing the problems America. Last time you said Sweden and Switzerland were your targets so I showed you them too. Which countries are all clustered together down the bottom? Which country is double the other countries?
You first Windy. Drop your levels down to anywhere near those other countries and you won't just look like a whiny douche blaming everyone else for the problems you caused.
Considering how many people in the US believes science is fake
It's not that many in the U.S. believe science to be faked. It's that, based on decades now of scandals, they believe many so-called SCIENTISTS to be fake.
Hard to argue with them when they constantly re-adjust data to fit theories, which when run backwards can't even fit past climate behavior without further massaging datasets.... or when so many studies published are found to be bunk when anyone tries to replicate results. After reading something like that, how can you not assume a lot of scientists are faking things?
It's at the point now where Global Warming Hysteria comes off as a religion that isn't even as believable as scientology - and Scientology has e-meters!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Too many people, and particularly the Media, tend to focus on the negatives of global warming and climate change. Just as there are losers there are also winners and the longer summers are very beneficial in the northern areas. We're getting longer growing seasons. Our winters are more temperate although still deep snows. The news is good.
Obviously the crisis Trump has been waiting for to declare martial law.
In addition, china is by far the largest in terms of total emissions across all time frames
Yet another obvious Windy lie. Don't you ever get sick of lying all the time? literally on the first page of Google.
And the point you're missing here is that environmental regulations here have fuckall effect on China, and are thus essentially useless past a certain point.
Also, by decreasing trade with China, by your own logic, we'd be improving the environment. Who's threatening a tariff battle with China that would decrease trade? El Trumpo, baby.
Every time liberal opens his mouth about global warming they always say temperature is not equal to the climate. This article is all about temperature. There were no shattered records anywhere in the world. Who the fuck cares if Spain had a record year because nobody else did.
Or hours for that matter. Noon on Wednesday the weekend is a monsoon, thursday morning Friday-Sunday is 80 and Sunny, Friday, it's raining while the weather report says it's sunny......
With that said, these climate change retards have little to zero trust in their ability to predict a thing.
Typing this from where there used to be a glacier 10,000 years ago, which in case you were curious, GWB or Trump were not responsible for. :)
Analysis indicates that the article and the conclusion of the scientists written about in the article have very a high (>97%) bologna content.
Bullshit liar, show your sources.
Everyone knows global warming is a hoax made up by the Chinese. The President said so.
In addition, china is by far the largest in terms of total emissions across all time frames
Yet another obvious Windy lie. Don't you ever get sick of lying all the time? literally on the first page of Google.
Why bother continuing the lie further? Are you really that stupid?
Al Gore promised us that snow would be a thing of the past. So many of us have been working overtime to increase greenhouse gasses and other emissions to ensure that future becomes reality. We do not need a winter season on this planet.
You can thank us later
I wonder if this means that we will be able to have longer pot growing seasons with bigger yields here at 45 degrees north...
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China is in the lead with getting renewable up and running. And the poster was saying it's upto YOU to stop buying cheap Stuff from China, it's the citizens fault for continually buying cheap derivatives from China instead of more expensive locally produced goods. Nothing to do with the Orange President.
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
Three times now you have claimed this with nothing to back it up. where this shows clearly America was far far worse going back to 1900.
Data from 1900-2004 supports such an argument, when you keep in mind the size of countries' populations. The US has the biggest historical share (314,772m metric tonnes of carbon dioxide), while European countries such as Germany (73,625) and the UK (55,163) cast a shadow over developing nations such as India (25,054), Brazil (9,136) and Indonesia (6,167). China is on 89,243.
And that isn't even considering America is a quarter the size of China.
You can't be the slightest bit serious. If you Added China to Denmark or Finland, maybe even all 3, the level would be less than America. Obviously China is much closer to their level than you are.
More lies. Transportation is clearly in front for over a year or 2 now, and is increasing, it's not going down, why say it is? Now getting worse is taking care of itself?
OK we know 1850 1950 is clearly a lie by you
Did you have any evidence to show 8 and 15 aren't also lies by you?
Of course the last 10 years China produced more, they have 4.2x as many people and send 10's of billions of dollars of products to you every month, that they pay the CO2 for and not you.
1970 - 2013 America is clearly higher than China, why are you making things up? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
FULL COMMUNIM AND #WHITEGENOCIDE is the only solution !! ALL HAIL THE UN!!
You know what? I don't even have to read the funny pages anymore. Just launch a story about climate change on Slashdot, grab a bag of popcorn, lean back and enjoy. It's hilarious. Well, it would be, if it wasn't so terribly sad.
And yes, I'm beyond caring. I tried to care. I really did. But I simply don't anymore. I have no kids. And the planet will stay habitable for the maybe 20 years I have left. Why should I care about this ball being habitable for you or your kids if even you can't be assed to?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If it hadn't been for deniers denying we could have started 20 years ago and THEN there would have been time to include nuclear. No longer.
who mods lies informative? How many sock puppets do you have WindBourne?
https://google.com/search?q=co...
Is it hard to wake up and blame everything on straight white American males or does it just come naturally?
Global warming: Is there anything it cannot do?
it's very easy on account of how many problems they are genuinely responsible for
99% vs 1%
It's sad to see the so-called scientists here on slashdot continuously ignore the most pertinent points. C02 is the albatross of the AGW movement and blinds people to the real causes of climate, which are extremely complex and cannot currently be modeled.
show some evidence idiot...
It's non-anthropogenicand and this a non-story.
it's clear you are the one and only true liar WindBourne.
Summer weather causes ice to melt, and water to heat up, film at 11.
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Im streight and white but I,didnt do anything to anyone. I,didnt even vote. Leave me alone.
So Denmark has a large natural gas installed base (great for power when required) but rarely uses it (great for the environment). This means they don't need to go to the trouble of building nuclear, as they have it covered.
Those windmills and natural gas plants will wear out, and likely new capacity will be needed as populations and standards of living grow, so they will need to build new power plants eventually. What should Denmark do then? Seems to me that choosing the safest energy source we have available to us today would be the wise choice.
I could see an argument made to continue building windmills for power, as it is likely as low carbon and low cost as nuclear. Possibly just as safe as well. Replacing old natural gas with new natural gas though fails on several levels. Natural gas is not low CO2, it's not safe, and even if it is cheap there is still a case to be made to save on natural gas used for electricity and save that for heating or sale as exports.
It's easy to find a number of natural gas rich nations that are building nuclear power plants. This is because in nearly every case natural gas use, for domestic heating and cooking as well as electrical generation, is increasing and by not burning that natural gas for electricity they avoid having to end up importing it. Even if a nation has plenty of natural gas this can be exported, or used domestically to displace higher CO2 petroleum liquid fuels for transportation.
Denmark does not "have it covered". There will be a continual need for new power plants as the old ones wear out. They can replace them with more dangerous and higher CO2 sources like natural gas, or with far better nuclear. Europe as a whole is burning far too much coal and natural gas, and they have an international grid for electricity and natural gas. If Denmark builds nuclear power then they can help their neighbors in reducing their CO2 by exporting natural gas and electricity from nuclear to displace the coal and oil that's being burned now.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
Hydroelectric power is a lot of things including the most dangerous of the non-fossil fuel power sources (except biofuel/biomass) due to just the immediate causalities from dam failures. That is 3 times more dangerous than solar, 9 times more dangerous than wind, and 16 times more dangerous than nuclear. Including casualties from long term effects like famine makes it several times more dangerous but that would apply to any dam whether power producing or not.
You are looking at the global numbers to get such poor performance, which does not apply to US policy. In the USA hydro is exceedingly safe, beat out only by nuclear. For the USA hydro should absolutely be used. If not only because it is safe, low CO2, inexpensive, and generally a good performing energy source, there is the need to match the load which also applies globally. I'll get into details next.
Even if we look at the global numbers on safety there is a very real need to keep using hydro power. Wind and solar are intermittent energy sources, so something needs to back them up when they are not available, and even possibly provide storage when there is an excess. Nuclear power, at least the third generation water boiler styles being built today, do not load follow well and will need something to match the changing loads through the day. If there is no hydro to go with the wind, solar, and nuclear to match supply to demand then that means oil, natural gas, or perhaps bio-mass fuel. This is not a choice between hydro, wind, or solar. This is a choice between hydro, natural gas, or oil.
If we are going to build out wind and solar to the point that there is an excess capacity with regularity, which inevitably comes with shortages, then there will be a need for storage to time shift the peaks to fill the valleys. I haven't seen any performance metrics on storage technologies except for price, and nothing is cheaper than pumped hydro storage. And no matter how you compute it, money saved is lives saved.
Fourth generation nuclear promises to offer the capability to match supply to demand. If this comes true, and maintains it's safety and other benefits, then we need nothing more for electricity. That's not likely to come for at least a decade. Until then we should invest in hydro and current generation nuclear when and where we can.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
Because of the blemish upon his image those made in his image have become. He's like the parents too embarassed of their child to acknowledge them in public.
You really are one dishonourable fucking asshole aren't you WindBourne.