Posted on 04/01/2024 6:23:53 PM PDT by PROCON
There is a lot of concern about cloudiness obscuring the sun during next Monday's total eclipse.
Interestingly it turns out that such eclipse-viewing problems are increasing as the earth warms up due to increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
A recent study in the Journal of Climate Statistics by Professor Wade Rocston of the University of Western East New Brunswick documents a significant (23%) increasing trend in cloud-obscured solar eclipses.
The origin of the increasing cloud cover is clear according the Professor Rocston. Increasing CO2 leads to global warming. Such warming results in more evaporation and the moisture content of the air increases with temperature (see below). This leads to more clouds and thus greater obscuration of solar eclipses.
The moisture content of air increases with temperature, which leads to more clouds.
This ground-breaking study found increased springtime clouds over Texas and the rest of the eclipse path (see below, cross-hatched shading indicates increasing clouds):
According to the ICCC, the International Committee on Climate Change, which includes leading climate scientists from around the world, solar eclipses have become 24% less visible due to climate change-related cloudiness increases. Their analysis suggests that if CO2 concentrations remain at their current level, the associated warming and increased cloudiness will result in nearly 46% of total eclipse events being obscured by clouds by the end of the century.
The inability to see total eclipses is one of the lesser-known impacts of global warming, but it is a real loss for astronomers and the rest of us. I look forward to a detailed discussion of this unfortunate situation in a future article by the Seattle Times ClimateLab reporters.
Finally, happy April 1.
Just proves most FReepers usually only read the title and then comment. 😂
Global warming affects the mating cycles of the Florida swamp rat, it causes early andropause in men and older cars backfire more frequently, increasing carbon pollution. Man, I need a grant to study all this.
Good post!
Lol... What idiocy.
Man-made cloudiness.
Why don’t these superstitious, modern savages just get it over with and declare ‘Global Warming’ to be their god?
Global warming is nothing but the revival of a cult as old as time. I expect that the grand old practice of pointless blood sacrifice will begin again within decades.
I should have known right from the start that it was an April Fools Day put on because it didn't focus on the disparate impact on LGBTQ+ and at risk minorities
Keeping idiots from going blind one burning tire at a time.
You got me! I’m in the path of totality, and the forecast has been rain for the last 2 weeks. That’s after two years of drought.
All these climate change/global warming freaks need to flock to the full eclipse areas, and since it’s visibility is “hindered” by climate change, they should rightly be able to watch the entire total eclipse, from beginning to end, with just their naked eyes...no eye protection needed now....LOL
In Dallas they are predicting cloud cover for April 8th.
Where I am in Texas the solar eclipse will be harder to see due to lots of clouds.
I saw a plot/map of the historic prevalence of cloud cover across the path for April 8th. [I think on one of Don Day’s weather podcasts - dayweatherpodcast.com]
It seemed to be that the higher the latitude, the higher the likely hood of cloud cover.
Given that path is only about 50 miles away, I’m likely to go unless it’s pouring.
Well played! The Carbon madness is so routine that most folks, even here , can't wait to post about the nonsense, before they read the whole thing and realize they have been fooled.
Guilty as charged, M’lud! I blame society...
It does though back-up the fact that most FReepers usually only read the title and perhaps a few sentences before commenting.
I too have been guilty of that. 😁
I’ve been around FR for a long time and I know not reading the article is a long-held tradition, but I’m still amazed how no one has yet seemed to have “gotten” it.
FYI, Most commenters have fallen for the April Fools climate article. 😎
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