Monica Turner
Shaul Hurwitz
Joseph Goebbels
Posted on 10/24/2020 7:00:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
JACKSON, Wyo. - A team of scientists and storytellers will soon be creating futuristic murals to help Yellowstone National Park’s visitors understand what the park will look like late this century.
“The temperature is going to be 2 to 3 degrees Celsius higher than it is now, but that doesn’t mean very much,” University of Wisconsin ecologist Monica Turner told the Jackson Hole News & Guide this summer. “What we’d like to do is show them.”
Her research - and the coming murals - is focused on Yellowstone’s lodgepole pine forests, which are projected to burn more frequently, leaving vistas more open and meadow-filled. Other vegetation will likely shift on the landscape, as will the species that live there.
As they set the scene for the mural of Old Faithful, perhaps the famous geyser ought to be dormant.
A new study headed by U.S. Geological Survey research hydrologist Shaul Hurwitz shows that during the driest of times, Old Faithful goes dormant. If those conditions repeat - and climate scientists forecast a much more arid environment come the middle of this century - it could have major implications for Old Faithful and Yellowstone’s approximately 500 other geysers.
“Eruption intervals might increase,” Hurwitz said. “Or if it’s going to be as arid as it was … it might even stop the geyser.”
Hurwitz said it’s hard to predict with precision what’s ahead for 130-foot-high geyser that predictably goes off every 90 minutes or so.
“We don’t say that it’s going to happen and that Old Faithful is going to go dry,” Hurwitz said. “We say that if the climate models are true, the eruption intervals will become much longer and longer, and if it’s really extreme for a sustained amount of time it might go dry.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Monica Turner
Shaul Hurwitz
Joseph Goebbels
Tell them our CO2 emissions are affecting the climate on Mars and watch them nod. These people are nuts.
Same people that put up the disappearing glacier signs in Glacier National Park?
Could ? so that’s a No
It might increase it or it might stop it.. Sounds as if these people have no clue as to that of which they speak.
If the temperatures increase, it my prevent the geysers from stopping!
Wow! Guessing is fun!
I hope it can hold off a year until our family vacation out there is done ... ;-)
So, I guess, I will write a partisan scare mongering article for the fake news...
“Hurwitz said it’s hard to predict with precision what’s ahead for 130-foot-high geyser that predictably goes off every 90 minutes or so.”
Oh Noes Ping!
Read the title. There is that magical word “COULD.”
Read the title. There is that magical word “COULD.”
“Journalists nowadays are ridiculously dependent on the words “could”, “might”, “may”, “possibly”, perhaps and potentially.
Reporting of facts have been replaced by rank mindless speculation full of sound and fury, signifying NOTHING.
“Eruption intervals might increase,” Hurwitz said. “Or if it’s going to be as arid as it was … it might even stop the geyser.”
fake news about nothing.
I just finished up a comprehensive study and found that time can influence people’s ages!
Tell the alarmists to stand very close to the geyser, to see if global warming has stopped it cold.
By the end of this century, technology will have made this problem, AGW, and its socialist “solutions” obsolete, like so many other problems before, unless we do something stupid and listen to these technocratic wannabes.
MODEL PREDICTS 6 METERS SEA LEVEL RISE BY 2100
MODEL PREDICTS 2.2 MILLION US DEAD OF COVID-19 IN 2020
MODEL PREDICTS PEAK OIL BY 2000
Remember that there is no such thing as "settled science" and there never will be!
Climate Change COULD make monkeys fly out of my butt.
Geysers erupt — sending steam and hot water hundreds of feet into the air, and often releasing a frightening screech and the stench of rotten eggs — because of a series of loops and side chambers hidden deep below the surface that allows water to boil first at the top and then cascade downward, the study found. [Watch Rare Eruption of the World’s Tallest Geyser | Video]
The article doesn’t explain how climate change interrupts this process... atmospheric conditions are going to impact this...
Computer models indicate that human stupidity and panic-mongering about the environment will never be gone!
:-)
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