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.”
This is terribnle, we really need to BAN the use of all “fossil fuels” in every Federal Agency and Department and they should ALL be mandated to 100% renewable Green Carbon Free Energy for everything they do.
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.
So how much money does congress need to fix the clouds?
Pouring that pasta cooking water down the drain sure adds up.
God is laughing.
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now.................
Nimbo Cumulos!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjLBLgQFkg
Huge lies and if Science is writing this it means a formerly serious prestigious publication is now fully compromised.
Very carelessly written article. The author kept repeating stuff.
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God laughs at the schemes we mortals dream up to dethrone Him, but no one can dethrone the Almighty, because He is the Alpha and the Omega!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga%E2%80%93Hunga_Ha%CA%BBapai_eruption_and_tsunami
This massive volcano, injecting mega amounts of water into the atmosphere, is conveniently overlooked as a real factor in heating.....
Exactly what I said. Obviously crewing with our climate. Most likely another ‘bankruptcy’ on the horizon. They’re killing our planet. But hey, some people get richer. That’s all that matters, right!
Panic. Oh no we’re all gonna die again.
Tonga eruption....
Exactly what I told my lib-in-laws a couple weeks ago when they attempted to bamboozle my son and I with man-made-climate-change BS.
Their response? Blank stares and....
“Tonga? What’s that?”
and they’re supposedly edumacated to a higher level.
The problem with 'environmentalists is they call themselves 'scientists' but in fact they're basically progressive nutcases who can't do basic math. Expect more 'unintended consequences....
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