Posted on 04/01/2024 6:23:53 PM PDT by PROCON
There is a lot of concern about cloudiness obscuring the sun during next Monday's total eclipse.
Interestingly it turns out that such eclipse-viewing problems are increasing as the earth warms up due to increasing levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
A recent study in the Journal of Climate Statistics by Professor Wade Rocston of the University of Western East New Brunswick documents a significant (23%) increasing trend in cloud-obscured solar eclipses.
The origin of the increasing cloud cover is clear according the Professor Rocston. Increasing CO2 leads to global warming. Such warming results in more evaporation and the moisture content of the air increases with temperature (see below). This leads to more clouds and thus greater obscuration of solar eclipses.
The moisture content of air increases with temperature, which leads to more clouds.
This ground-breaking study found increased springtime clouds over Texas and the rest of the eclipse path (see below, cross-hatched shading indicates increasing clouds):
According to the ICCC, the International Committee on Climate Change, which includes leading climate scientists from around the world, solar eclipses have become 24% less visible due to climate change-related cloudiness increases. Their analysis suggests that if CO2 concentrations remain at their current level, the associated warming and increased cloudiness will result in nearly 46% of total eclipse events being obscured by clouds by the end of the century.
The inability to see total eclipses is one of the lesser-known impacts of global warming, but it is a real loss for astronomers and the rest of us. I look forward to a detailed discussion of this unfortunate situation in a future article by the Seattle Times ClimateLab reporters.
Finally, happy April 1.
Well played, Professor Mass.
I don’t want to pay for any more of this pseudo-Science.
More clouds don’t reduce da Erf’s fever?
[picard facepalm]
“Finally, happy April 1”
Happy April 8th to those in the “path”...
“The origin of the increasing cloud cover is clear according the Professor Rocston. Increasing CO2 leads to global warming. Such warming results in more evaporation and the moisture content of the air increases with temperature.” -article
This is circular logic at best.
Water vapor is the most prevalent “ greenhouse” gas in the atmosphere. But you can’t blame water vapor on humans, so CO2 is the driver of choice “because we say so” by AGW “scientists”
Did you finally ‘get it’? 😎
The reason the eclipse isn’t visible to everyone is that it’s racist and doesn’t respect equity. I say we ban them altogether.
It’s more like all the crap they’re spraying in the air. I don’t remember the last time I ever saw a perfectly cloudless sky.
U.S. Constitution
Article 1. The Congress shall construct a thermostat to control the temperature of planet earth.
Article 2. Every hour, the Congress shall adjust that thermostat.
Article 3. The Congress shall set the maximum level of the oceans.
Article 4. The Congress shall set the miles per Kilowatt.
Article 5. The Congress shall set the rotational speed of the planet earth.
Article 6. The Congress shall set the size of The Ozone Hole.
Tsk, tsk, I thought you Bill would be the one person to read the whole short article, especially the last sentence.
LOL 🤣
(New Research Finds that Solar Eclipses are Harder to See Due to Global Warming)
The 🌑 darkness is obscuring the 🌑 darkness.
https://youtu.be/_2JcpDabd48?si=Ddr7dHpPTbI42tRs
If he’s an atmospheric scientist, he should know about albedo. The white upper surface of clouds reflect more incoming sunlight due to increased albedo, and make the earth cooler, not hotter. Infact, the Global Climate Models don’t even include clouds. That’s one of the reasons why they aren’t accurate, and that’s why his forecasts are wrong. He would be just as accurate using slain goat entrails as his source of information.
If you had just read the last sentence in the article, you would have ‘got it’.
Global warming affects the mating cycles of the Florida swamp rat, it causes early andropause in men and older cars backfire more frequently, increasing carbon pollution. Man, I need a grant to study all this.
I hadn’t realized that all eclipses are in the exact same places at the same time of the day, combined with the fact that our solar system is in exact resonance after billions of years is amazing! /s
America, even the weather is sensationalized, politicized, marketed and sold.
He should write a book. Maybe CNN will bring him on to talk about the weather...
Don’t have time for this moron.
Might be clearer if you dink wine at dinner.
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