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What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about our current heat wave
American Thinker ^ | 30 Jul, 2023 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 07/30/2023 5:26:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The current heat wave is being relentlessly blamed on increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but there is a much more plausible explanation, one that is virtually endorsed by two of the world’s leading scientific organizations. It turns out that levels of water vapor in the atmosphere have dramatically increased over the last year-and-a-half, and water vapor is well recognized as a greenhouse gas, whose heightened presence leads to higher temperatures, a mechanism that dwarfs any effect CO2 may have.

So, why has atmospheric water vapor increased so dramatically? Because of a historic, gigantic volcanic eruption last year that I – probably along with you -- had never heard of. The mass media ignored it because it took place 490 feet underwater in the South Pacific. Don’t take it from me, take it from NASA (and please do follow the link to see time lapse satellite imagery of the underwater eruption and subsequent plume of gasses and water injected into the atmosphere):

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature.

“We’ve never seen anything like it,” said Luis Millán, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. He led a new study examining the amount of water vapor that the Tonga volcano injected into the stratosphere, the layer of the atmosphere between about 8 and 33 miles (12 and 53 kilometers) above Earth’s surface.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: climate; globalwarming; nasa; tonga; volcano; watervapor; weather
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To: MtnClimber
--- "What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about our current heat wave"

What NASA and ESA are admitting is that the UFOs in Ukraine are creating Putin-controlled heatwaves funded by MAGA domestic terrorists, and therefore no one should be allowed to further investigate Hunter Biden's corruption and 10 percent for the big guy in the White Powder House.

41 posted on 07/30/2023 7:17:18 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

It’s all fun and games until it causes a nuclear war.


42 posted on 07/30/2023 7:24:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Tell me how higher taxes and an EV would prevent that.


43 posted on 07/30/2023 7:27:40 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: muir_redwoods
Tell me how higher taxes and an EV would prevent that.

It is magic!

44 posted on 07/30/2023 7:30:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The only solution is more Socialism. /s


45 posted on 07/30/2023 7:32:28 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: MtnClimber
--- "It's all fun and games until it causes a nuclear war."

Agreed. All the war modeling and "gaming" (RAND corp, Institute for the Study of War, and the like) and posturing and more seems little more than "fun and games" with one feature. People getting paid well through the fun and games.

It's a serious business, in truth though said with a sense of dark irony.

46 posted on 07/30/2023 7:35:59 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

And more EVs and more brown and black outs..

Oh, and less cars.. and less home heating..and less freedom.


47 posted on 07/30/2023 7:42:25 AM PDT by Leep (What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
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To: muir_redwoods

By fudging the numbers.
And telling you how much better everything is..even though everyone knows better.
Brandon is in fact the greatest President that ever lived. Better than George Washington.
And it’s true cause i said it on the internet.


48 posted on 07/30/2023 7:45:51 AM PDT by Leep (What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
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To: MtnClimber

49 posted on 07/30/2023 7:46:31 AM PDT by nagant (`)
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To: Locomotive Breath

white clouds are not the problem. It’s the dark ones you kneed to watchout four. /s


50 posted on 07/30/2023 7:57:28 AM PDT by sasquatch
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To: MtnClimber

Adding to that, it seems there has been an unusual amount of solar activity lately and lots of CMEs. Also, the government chem-spraying has to has contributed to the screwed up jet stream and atmosphere we have now. Yet, conveniently, nobody ever mentions those factors. Just like they point to sea water temps rising, yet ignore all of the other underwater volcanic eruptions. Settled science has been fundamentally transformed into science ‘fiction’.


51 posted on 07/30/2023 8:00:39 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Bon of Babble

Caused by the explosive growth in the numbers of bronze SUVs.

Chariots?


52 posted on 07/30/2023 8:29:51 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: MtnClimber

Agenda killer
water vapor in the atmosphere have dramatically increased over the last year-and-a-half, and water vapor is well recognized as a greenhouse gas.

Oceans warming
Volcanic eruption Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been dumping lava in the ocean for the last 30 years.


53 posted on 07/30/2023 8:30:42 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: MtnClimber

All things considered, that does not sound like a lot of water vapor spread out in the atmospherre to me. One good super cell or hurricane can hold that much in the clouds before it falls as rain. I suppose the problem is how high it all went?


54 posted on 07/30/2023 8:32:27 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: MtnClimber

As Paul Harvey would say, and there’s the rest of the story.

Thanks.


55 posted on 07/30/2023 8:33:28 AM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: Chgogal
That excellent line by George Carlin to those who think they're "saving" the Earth by banning plastic bags and other such nonsense: "The planet's not going anywhere. You are!"
56 posted on 07/30/2023 8:34:37 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Chgogal

Yes humans are puny compared to earth. Astronauts in orbit cant see any man made objects.

And earth is so puny compared to Sun, a million earths would fit inside a sphere the size of Sun.


57 posted on 07/30/2023 8:47:23 AM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians are there to build wealth. Trump is in there to lose wealth to serve people.)
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To: mund1011

There have been updates to the initial estimates.

“Scientists now think it was closer to 150,000 metric tons, or 40 trillion gallons, of super-heated water instantly injected into the atmosphere.”


58 posted on 07/30/2023 9:10:59 AM PDT by KEVLAR ( )
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To: cyclotic

It’s amazing how powerful nature is and how weak and puny man is.“

It’s also amazing how the entire media establishment will automatically spike the real cause of the heat wave because the lie helps the cause.


59 posted on 07/30/2023 9:13:29 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: MtnClimber

Climate whacks are godless science-less delusional retards.


60 posted on 07/30/2023 9:15:22 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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