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The paradox of atmospheric cooling
The Week US (via MSN.com) ^ | 09 June 2023 | Devika Rao

Posted on 06/09/2023 6:36:43 AM PDT by zeestephen

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To: skinny old man

Living in the desert, with below normal surface humidity being the norm, I have noticed that when upper atmospheric humidity is high, through polarized lenses, the sky looks gray, but when upper level atmospheric humidity is low, during the day, again through polarized lenses, the sky looks black.

This matters, because without that humidity, the daytime surface temperature is hot, but at night the heat quickly radiates away, and the desert becomes bone chilling cold.


21 posted on 06/09/2023 8:34:34 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: zeestephen

“Unexpected”. It is just Earth’s natural buffer systems at play rebalancing temperatures.


22 posted on 06/09/2023 8:48:45 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: zeestephen

Well, if the ground air is hot and there is a cold layer of air above it and there is enough of a difference between the temperatures, we usually get a tornado.


23 posted on 06/09/2023 8:58:33 AM PDT by fini
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To: fini

Or maybe the ground sensors are in the wrong place.


24 posted on 06/09/2023 8:59:34 AM PDT by fini
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I remember that about 10-15 years ago, there was a guy that used to visit official ground temperature measuring sites in the US. He got that information from a govt website. A surprising number of them were in the wrong places: in the middle of a parking lot, within the air plume of a heat pump, by an airport, etc... The govt response: remove the listing of the sites.


25 posted on 06/09/2023 9:05:28 AM PDT by fini
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To: fini

that guy was anthony Watts, of the wattsupwiththat.com website


26 posted on 06/09/2023 3:01:12 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: zeestephen

WUWT is THE place to go to on theclimate hoax. Love that site!


27 posted on 06/10/2023 2:50:28 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (THE FBI INTERFERED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!!!)
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To: dangus
A LITTLE bit of global warming is real and anthropogenic.

If every country on Earth confiscated every penny beyond bare subsistence from every person and spent it all on “climate”, they couldn't affect the global temperature by one degree or the sea levels by an inch. So it's a VERY little bit!

28 posted on 06/12/2023 8:54:43 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: up hermit
I would not like for the colder layer in the upper atmosphere to fall and instantly cool the earth’s surface. That may explain why the instant freezing of animals and the start of an ice age. Just a thought.

I recall reading such a theory many years ago involving volcanic activity and gases reaching the edge of space, being super-chilled and falling to Earth in huge "blobs" which instantly killed and froze plants and animals. It would certainly account for the state of preservation of Mammoths and other creatures in the far north.

29 posted on 06/12/2023 11:37:16 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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