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To: justa-hairyape

That’s a tricky assumption. A few years ago, some climate researchers went to the Tropics to study humidity, cloud formation, etc., based on the theory that the hotter weather and warmer ocean should be substantially increasing evaporation and cloud formation.

Instead they found not a cloud in the sky. Perhaps a year later, NASA got a shock when it was discovered that the thermosphere the atmosphere from about 85km to 600km had substantially contracted, about a third, without explanation.

Bottom line: nobody has a clue.

The forces at work, in combination with each other, are so vastly greater than our scale that we barely grasp that they exist, but have no idea what they do, or how.


49 posted on 05/21/2013 4:24:20 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Yep. Joe also notes that a temperature drop in the tropics is more significant then a temperature drop in the temperate or polar zones. And if the temperature is dropping while humidity or moisture is falling, that is a very big signal for what is coming.

Is cooling worse then we thought ??

50 posted on 05/21/2013 4:51:12 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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