Posted on 08/09/2023 12:48:15 PM PDT by algore
The Atlantic Ocean is running a fever. Waters off Florida have become a hot tub, bleaching the third-largest barrier reef in the world.
Off the coast of Ireland, extreme heat was implicated in the mass death of seabirds. For years, the north Atlantic was warming more slowly than other parts of the world. But now it has caught up, and then some.
Last month, the sea surface there surged to a record 25°C—nearly 1°C warmer than the previous high, set in 2020—and temperatures haven’t even peaked yet. “This year it’s been crazy,” says Tianle Yuan, an atmospheric physicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
The obvious and primary driver of this trend is society’s emissions of greenhouse gases, which trap heat that the oceans steadily absorb. Another influence has been recent weather, especially stalled high-pressure systems that suppress cloud formation and allow the oceans to bake in the Sun.
But researchers are now waking up to another factor, one that could be filed under the category of unintended consequences: disappearing clouds known as ship tracks. Regulations imposed in 2020 by the United Nations’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) have cut ships’ sulfur pollution by more than 80% and improved air quality worldwide.
The reduction has also lessened the effect of sulfate particles in seeding and brightening the distinctive low-lying, reflective clouds that follow in the wake of ships and help cool the planet.
The Atlantic Ocean is running a fever. Waters off Florida have become a hot tub, bleaching the third-largest barrier reef in the world. Off the coast of Ireland, extreme heat was implicated in the mass death of seabirds. For years, the north Atlantic was warming more slowly than other parts of the world. But now it has caught up, and then some. Last month, the sea surface there surged to a record 25°C—nearly 1°C warmer than the previous high, set in 2020—and temperatures haven’t even peaked yet. “This year it’s been crazy,” says Tianle Yuan, an atmospheric physicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
The obvious and primary driver of this trend is society’s emissions of greenhouse gases, which trap heat that the oceans steadily absorb. Another influence has been recent weather, especially stalled high-pressure systems that suppress cloud formation and allow the oceans to bake in the Sun.
But researchers are now waking up to another factor, one that could be filed under the category of unintended consequences: disappearing clouds known as ship tracks. Regulations imposed in 2020 by the United Nations’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) have cut ships’ sulfur pollution by more than 80% and improved air quality worldwide.
The reduction has also lessened the effect of sulfate particles in seeding and brightening the distinctive low-lying, reflective clouds that follow in the wake of ships and help cool the planet.
Later this year, Diamond, Yuan, and others will begin to compare their techniques for studying the interaction of pollution and clouds, under the auspices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s small geoengineering research program.
After a few more years, Wood says, “We’re really going to have something to say about these cloud adjustments.”
The government has little time to take over. They will take away our oil & gas which will leave us peons clinging to a spartan existence, then in 7 years say, “See, without us doing all we have done the world would have been destroyed by now. But, since the world still exists, that proves what we did was right. For, we have saved the world.”
Lets not forget about the effect of all those windmills blocking and taking the energy out of the prevailing winds. There’s something gonna happen with that pretty soon. Another case of unintended consequences that were entirely predicable. But were ignored because the deep state want to line their pockets.
>Lets not forget about the effect of all those windmills blocking and taking the energy out of the prevailing winds. There’s something gonna happen with that pretty soon. Another case of unintended consequences that were entirely predicable. But were ignored because the deep state want to line their pockets.<
Yes, indeed! I forgot that.
Yep. All those volcanic eruptions over the last 2 years has nothing to do with the weather. Its all the SUVs.
Translation: Before you conservatives get too excited and declare that us libs have learned the error of our ways on regulations having unintended consequences -— this is “proof” that we need to proceed with Bill Gates’ and Joe Biden’s Bond-villain-level plot to block the sun.”
They’ve already been doing that. They have tic-tac-toed the skys with their chem spraying. No telling what damnage they’ve already done to planet earth.
Chemtrails...
That is a telltale signal that the article was written by a computer. AI, repeats itself, because the editors don’t edit the Artificial Intelligence.
You have described the game plan perfectly.
If anyone can watch the skies and not see that cloud formation is man made, is brainwashed.
And apparently some FR posters don’t bother to preview what they post, either.
Run for your lives to the glaciers!(sarc.)
Check out the sun’s activity, you morons.
“Solar maximum could hit us harder and sooner than we thought. How dangerous will the sun’s chaotic peak be?”
Exactly.
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