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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
Mtn Climber; Thank you!

13% increase makes this a big contributor to Water Vapor in the atmosphere! The Chinese who are using weather modification to harvest atmospheric water away from their neighbors will be happy! (Yes, an additional factor by the CCP that screws with our weather!)

There is an entire complex of astrophysical and geophysical events that affect climate and weather that are not mentioned here that do not support the use of climate change to create fear based support for totalitarianism and control of humanity. (Fear porn!!)

Regular cycles of glaciation (as understood in our science classes from the 1950s), Milankovitch. This is probably one of the major causes.


https://www.universetoday.com/46311/an-astronomical-perspective-on-climate-change/

"Posted on November 30, 2009 by Steve Nerlich

An Astronomical Perspective on Climate Change

Ice cores and deep sea bed cores provide the best available record of changes in global temperature and CO2 content of the atmosphere going back 800,000 years. The data shows a clear periodicity in global temperatures which is thought to be linked to the Milankovitch cycle.

Back in 1920, Milutin Milankovitch, a Serbian mathematician, proposed that fine changes in Earth’s orbit around the Sun could explain an approximately 100,000 year cycle in glaciation seen from geological evidence. The tilt of the Earth’s axis swings slightly over a 41,000 year cycle – the eccentricity of Earth’s orbit moves from almost circular to more elliptical and back again over a 413,000 year cycle – and overlaying that you have not only the precession of the equinoxes, which is an inherent wobble in the Earth’s axial spin over a 26,000 year cycle, but also a precession of the whole of Earth’s orbit over a 23,000 year cycle.

Ice core data does show a rough concordance between glaciation and the synchronicity of these orbital cycles. Even though there’s no significant change in the mean amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth over the period of its annual orbit – the orbital changes can lead to increased polar shadowing and cooling."

More at link; (He points out that we are currently in a global melting cycle but ruins it by falling into line with the current PolySci Faculty line about carbon dioxide causing warming, ect.)


Other things that might affect climate change that we cannot control. Earth receiving increased cosmic radiation due to weakening magnetic fields of the sun and possibly the earth (which might result in increased cloud formation and reflectivity and more severe storms). Changes to the earth's magnetic field or core or mantle that might result in warming of the oceans, the atmosphere, and more glacial melt. I understand that when we move above or below the galactic equator we move out of the screening effect of dust and gas and receive more damaging radiation from the intense star factories at the galactic core, and this also applies when we move out of the screening effects of local cloud. Regular motions but no clue how much it affects weather. (Ethical Skeptic cited in your article discusses vulcanism and ocean warming I think.)

https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/03/05/the-worsening-cosmic-ray-situation/

Context of this is pole reversal and climate change.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abb8677

(This says not to worry about pole reversal)

https://www.universetoday.com/156234/the-rapid-changes-were-seeing-with-the-earths-magnetic-field-dont-mean-the-poles-are-about-to-flip-this-is-normal/

61 posted on 07/30/2023 9:40:01 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: devere

It was pretty hot in the 1930s. A lot of dust storms.


62 posted on 07/30/2023 9:42:51 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Thanks for that post. I agree that there are many causes for climate variation. We just are not outside of the normal variation cycle. Giving up our freedom won’t affect the climate at all. If anyone is going to give up their freedom it should be those pushing this crap. Some splash back would do them some good.


63 posted on 07/30/2023 9:55:41 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 summer of 1980 was a lot hotter than this in the midwest and south.


64 posted on 07/30/2023 10:01:24 AM PDT by GaltMeister (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.)
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To: The Louiswu
This goes to show that Earths climate is not dependent one just one thing, our climate is and endless chain of interconnected events and circumstances so vast that no one can ever completely predict with 100% accuracy the weather on this planet.

Correct. And it was pretty warm during the Medieval Warming Period.

65 posted on 07/30/2023 10:03:45 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: GaltMeister

The summer of 1980 was a lot hotter than this in the midwest and south.


For most people, history is what you have lived in your lifetime. That is all they can relate too as they don’t read books, or talk to old people.


66 posted on 07/30/2023 10:04:41 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: KEVLAR

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.”

+++++++++++

Basically an increase by a factor of 1000 (actually 1044). So now it’s 58000 x 1000 = 58 million Olympic sized swimming pools.


67 posted on 07/30/2023 10:06:04 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: MtnClimber

Hunga Tonga-Hunga pinga


68 posted on 07/30/2023 10:43:22 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Yardstick

Including Roy Spencer, which really disappoints me.


69 posted on 07/30/2023 10:51:44 AM PDT by sopo
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To: MtnClimber

Dang it!
Truth & facts are always getting in the way of those communist propaganda memes...


70 posted on 07/30/2023 10:59:18 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Leep

“ Brandon is in fact the greatest President that ever lived. Better than George Washington.”

Well, Joe Stupid did get way more votes


71 posted on 07/30/2023 11:07:40 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: Chgogal

Yea. God already did that once.


72 posted on 07/30/2023 1:22:49 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: DeplorablePaul

I have been posting this to Twixx all day yesterday. Our “Gooberment” is dastardly!


73 posted on 07/31/2023 4:22:16 AM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t know about this MC... I mean wouldn’t this have caused some pretty obvious tsunamis around nearby the Pacific coast??


74 posted on 07/31/2023 4:29:41 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: sit-rep

nearby Pacific coast**


75 posted on 07/31/2023 4:31:09 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: Gen.Blather

My neighbors all have lawn services and their lawns are full of weeds so they then have to pay the lawn service to spray for weeds. Told one of them that lawn services are the cause of their weeds because they don’t power wash their mowers between cuts.


76 posted on 07/31/2023 7:41:36 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Locomotive Breath

...and there are thousands of farmers pulling water out of the ground for irrigation but don’t worry, I have my dehumidifier running.


77 posted on 07/31/2023 7:57:16 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: PeterPrinciple

True. My best friends grandfather would tell us stories about cleaning the red dust from their house in Nebraska from the dust storms in Oklahoma. Said it was a fine, red color but I don’t recall him fretting about it or the cause. You just dealt with it and moved on.


78 posted on 07/31/2023 8:31:58 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: PeterPrinciple

True. My best friends grandfather would tell us stories about cleaning the red dust from their house in Nebraska from the dust storms in Oklahoma. Said it was a fine, red color but I don’t recall him fretting about it or the cause. You just dealt with it and moved on.


79 posted on 07/31/2023 8:39:37 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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