Oh! I posted this on another thread. It might hit the nail on the head:
The lift in the U.S. economy, thanks to President Trump, has increased the wheels of production. Think the pizza effect: The more people who can afford pizza the more pizzas will be made.
The economy is firing up the pizza ovens. New workers are on the roads; doing the work commute. New robots are consuming more electricity to deal with the increasing manufacture of goods. And more workers are expending heat from their bodies as they do what companies cannot afford what the robots can do or, cannot do. Then, there is the increased energy for distribution: Ships, airplanes, trains, trucks and cars. Then there is the energy of warehousing and fork lifting. Finally, there is the energy of using those new products. Home pizza ovens anyone?
Just my theory: All that energy, in the form of heat, goes into the atmosphere. Low pressure systems occur when an air mass warms. Increased human activity may be increasing those low pressure areas and causing wild weather conditions. It reminds me of the old song, “June is Busting Out All Over.” Yes. Your mind has to go deep to understand the symbolism:
June is bustin’ out all over
All over the meadow and the hill
Buds’re bustin’ outa bushes
And the rompin’ river pushes
Ev’ry little wheel that wheels beside the mill
Can tornadoes in Oregon may be the canary in the mine shaft of coming events? Is CO2 just a scapegoat for ordinary human activity? Maybe I can get a government grant to find out if my theory is correct. Until then, people need to shut up, get their asses out of bed and go to work.
I like the way that you think : )
“Just my theory: All that energy, in the form of heat, goes into the atmosphere. Low pressure systems occur when an air mass warms. Increased human activity may be increasing those low pressure areas and causing wild weather conditions.”
No. Human activity is a rounding error for global climate. Has some local impact in cesspools like LA. But globally? Just no.
Example 1: an average hurricane releases about 10 megatons (as in a big nuke) of energy every 20 minutes or so.
Example 2: a big wildfire releases more CO2 than the US produces in a few years. We just saw one enabled by these idiots.
Example 3: a big volcanic explosion releases more CO2 than all of mankind has since the start of the industrial revolution. Other much more powerful “greenhouse” gasses, too.
Example 4: If the US cut CO2 emissions to zero, it wouldn’t be a blip on what China emits. And even the CO2 they emit does not more than influence local phenomena. (Note: the polution China emits actually can have global implication - but that’s a different issue the “environmentalists” apparently don’t care about.)
Too tired of posting links few read. Look it up yourself.
The take away: We’re gnats on the global scale.