"I don't trust air I can't see."
Captain Ramsey
USS ALABAMA
Posted on 05/18/2022 4:24:23 AM PDT by EBH
The study, released earlier in May, also noted an uptick in air pollution elsewhere in the world was producing a decline in the number of tropical cyclones over the past 40 years.
Researchers examined how particulate air pollution, or aerosols, and climate change have affected tropical cyclones across the planet over the past 40 years in a new study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that was recently published in the journal Science Advances, and the results are surprising.
“Air pollution is a big environmental risk to human health, and we have made great strides in reducing health risks by reducing particulate air pollution,” said Hiroyuki Murakami, a physical scientist at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and study author. “But reducing air pollution does not always decrease the risk of hazards from tropical cyclones.”
Dr. Boris Quennehen, Lead Atmospheric Scientist at Plume Labs, a company acquired by AccuWeather earlier this year, said particulate matter (PM), also known as aerosols, is a mix of fine dust and tiny liquid droplets.
"Particulate matter can come from natural sources, like fine sand, wildfires, volcanic eruptions and sea salt for example, or from human activities, usually involving some kind of incomplete combustion -- a fire or explosion," said Quennehen.
From 1980 to 2020, Europe and North America have reduced particulate air pollution from automotive, and energy industries. This has resulted in an estimated 50% drop in the concentration of particulate air pollution from North America and Europe, which, as noted by the study from NOAA, has had a significant impact on water temperatures in the tropical Atlantic Ocean basin and the development of tropical cyclones.
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Less smog means more sunlight reaches the ocean’s surface, more heating means more storms that dissipate heat. Interesting, anyway.
they can’t lose....
Wait?
Wha?!
Global warming/global climate change #mindsblown.
More “settled science” flying out of the arseholes of experts.
Exactly my first thought too.
They now cannot attribute GW to being a pollution caused problem.
Clean air + more sunlight = warmer oceans, more cyclones, and logically melting ice sheets
The earth 🌍 was much warmer at other times.
I wonder if they used the post-Katrina expansion of hurricane declarations.
Oh my....
Satellite surveillance since 1972 has enabled detection of hurricanes which stay out to sea and harmlessly blow themselves out, otherwise unobserved by human eyes. Before satellites, these hurricanes were unknown and not recorded. So the reported increase in Atlantic hurricanes the last 40 years or so are most likely accounted for by better observation, not greater frequency.
Surface temperatures in the South Atlantic basin, where most tropical Atlantic storms develop, typically max out at or about 30 degrees C every summer. It can’t really get any warmer than that in the open ocean because of increased evaporation.
and also isn’t it just as likely that less air pollution would mean less heat ESCAPES the surface, rather than more hear REACHES the surface?
Actually this may be true. After all planes were grounded on 9-11 the ground temp of the US actually went up a degree or so due to no exhaust from aircraft flying overhead.
But remember..
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT was blamed on POLLUTION trapping sun rays!
The COMING ICE was blamed on POLLUTION blocking sun rays!
GLOBAL WARMING is blamed on...POLLUTION again trapping sun rays!
They don’t say it but they probably didn’t dare. The increase in storms over the Atlantic and decrease over the Pacific implies thaqt China is the major polluter in the world today.
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