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.
It’s no different than the rest of CAGW “Studies”.
EVERYTHING is negatively affected by CAGW “Science”, especially my remaining years.
When it comes to Climate “Science”, everyday is April 1.
I think the hypothesis is likely true.
Just look at Venus.
Climate change gave me the crabs.
I went to the panhandle of Neb. in 2017 to witness the eclipse.
When we got to near the center of the path at an intersection of a very rural dirt road [that’s how we got there] with US 20, there were only 2 other vehicles with observers.
The best part was listening to the complaints of the cattle just across US 20.
Got me!
It looks like I’ll get around 85% coverage here, but I doubt there’ll be anything to see. They forecast chances for rain next Monday.
I did get to see the total eclipse in ‘17 though. Watched from my brother’s back yard which was dead-center of the path. Gorgeous, clear day for it too.
After that, watching a partial eclipse will never be as fun. Total is an amazing experience.
If so-called global warming was real, I’d say it’s affecting the brains of the left. But it’s not real, and many on the left are brainless twits without so-called global warming.
The moisture content of air increases with temperature, which leads to more clouds.
People who live in a desert might disagree. :-) Hotter 'n Hades and dry as a bone.
Come to Colorado, you’ll see one almost every day. Please don’t go down the “chemtrail” road. As someone who is a pilot and has been in aviation all my life, I can assure you it’s utter nonsense.
The capacity of the AIR TO HOLD MORE MOISTURE....
If you got it.
I’ve never been to the Equator in an ocean geography, but I hear it can rain there.
Where I live, we tend to see much sublimation of snowfalls.
Ha! Cliff Mass is very realistic concerning global warming.
Yeah, the temperature is slowly increasing (as Professor Mass is wont to say), but so what? We are not all going to die like the insane liberals want us to believe.
Water can be such a funny substance.
“Come to Colorado, you’ll see one almost every day.”
Home, Home on the Range....
I saw the one in 2017 as well, from Wyoming where the sky was crystal clear. It’s the only one I’ve seen so far. Before totality arrived, I thought I knew what to expect, but when I took off the eclipse glasses and looked up the sheer majesty of what I was seeing actually caused my knees to buckle. I couldn’t even speak coherently. All I kept saying was “Wow!..Oh wow!…wow!.”
If you’ve seen a total eclipse, you instantly understand why people plan years in advance and fly halfway around the world just to experience a few precious minutes of it. And if you’re just outside the path of totality and think that even 99% total is good enough, you would be completely wrong. The sun is so bright that even 1% of its light is blinding. It’s only when the sun is 100% covered by the moon that it is safe to look at it with the naked eye, and only then are you able to see the indescribable corona and bright red prominences erupting from the surface.
All of that said though, if you’re in the path or near it and it looks like the sky will be clouded over, don’t give up and ignore it. I would still do whatever it takes to get inside that path of totality because you will still experience the amazing darkness that comes, will hear how the animals and insects react as if night is coming, and will feel the steep temperature drop. Where I was in 2017, the temperature dropped 15 degrees in a few minutes.
Ha! Unfortunately, while the geography is as spectacular as ever, these days the next line of that song would have to be, “Where the queers and the drug addicts prey.” I detest what the leftist scum have done to this beautiful state.
Now you’re trying to get too serious in a thread that’s anything but. LOL
Cliff Mass certainly wasn’t being serious. I liked his sense of humor ..... once I read the last sentence. :-)
I wish I could take off to see this eclipse but unfortunately, I can’t.
I agree that once you’ve seen one, it’s easy to understand why people travel all over to watch total eclipses. I’d love to be able to do it. It’s an experience like no other. Just a shame it’s so brief.
Maybe we won’t be totally clouded over next Monday and I’ll get to see what we do get. I still have my glasses from last time. And I can get a pic or two of the shadow crescents, if any trees have enough leaves on them. That could be a problem.
I've been there. It's right next to Upper Lower Slobovia. 🙃
-PJ
Sad that.
I have two kids [and their fams] that live in the Metro Front Range.
I used to get to hang out there in the 70s.
Things have changed.
I live a bit [by western standards] to the NNE.
Even our pols are quite questionable.
Talking to their office staffs doesn’t move the needle.
I don’t know what to do.
“I don’t remember the last time I ever saw a perfectly cloudless sky.”
Not uncommon in the desert SW
even with supposed increased
atmospheric water vapor.
There’s a reason they’re
called deserts.
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