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America mysteriously hit a deadly tipping point — and no one knows why
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:09 am
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:09 am
America mysteriously hit a deadly tipping point — and no one knows why
Sometime in the past year, this tiny planet we live on in an obscure corner of our Milky Way galaxy went through some sort of tipping point, a “state change” of sorts, and now things are different from how they’ve been at any other time in the 300,000 year history of the human race.
Nobody knows for sure what that change or tipping point is.
— One theory is that variations in dust concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere’s atmosphere — a function of the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean allowing more or less fine dirt to be picked up and carried aloft from northern Africa — are changing the reflectivity of the atmosphere and trapping more of the sun’s heat.
— Another theory follows the January, 2022 eruption of the volcano at Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai, which injected so much water vapor (146 million tons) and sulfur dioxide (420,000 tons) into the stratosphere that scientists were predicting soon after it happened that there would be a year or two of unusual heat signatures across the planet.
— Some scientists argue it was caused by a change in worldwide regulations mandating ships at sea burn cleaner diesel fuel, reducing the soot-type particles they’re emitting that previously formed heat-reflective clouds.
— And, of course, the current El Niño ocean pattern appears to be drawing heat from the ocean up to the surface where it’s transferred to the atmosphere in unprecedented amounts.
But regardless of the why/how, something has definitely happened in the past year or so that has pushed our atmosphere’s state of equilibrium out of an older, stable range and into a newer, warmer, and apparently far less stable state.
It’s so dramatic and so shocking that scientists — typically not prone to hyperbole — publishing in the peer-reviewed journal BioScience about this anomaly open their article with:
“Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory.
“For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
“Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as an alarming and unprecedented succession of climate records are broken, causing profoundly distressing scenes of suffering to unfold. We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity.”
Looking at 35 different “vital signs” that signal the health of our planet and its atmosphere, 20 of which have deviated from their norms so badly as to alarm researchers, the scientists who wrote for BioScience warn us all:
“We are venturing into uncharted climate territory.”
In just the past 24 hours, a tropical storm that nobody thought was a threat blew up into a full-on Category 5 hurricane and is, as you’re reading these words, devastating Acapulco. Not one weather agency predicted it: this is how unpredictable and violent our weather has become because we’re still burning fossil fuels.
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Sometime in the past year, this tiny planet we live on in an obscure corner of our Milky Way galaxy went through some sort of tipping point, a “state change” of sorts, and now things are different from how they’ve been at any other time in the 300,000 year history of the human race.
Nobody knows for sure what that change or tipping point is.
— One theory is that variations in dust concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere’s atmosphere — a function of the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean allowing more or less fine dirt to be picked up and carried aloft from northern Africa — are changing the reflectivity of the atmosphere and trapping more of the sun’s heat.
— Another theory follows the January, 2022 eruption of the volcano at Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai, which injected so much water vapor (146 million tons) and sulfur dioxide (420,000 tons) into the stratosphere that scientists were predicting soon after it happened that there would be a year or two of unusual heat signatures across the planet.
— Some scientists argue it was caused by a change in worldwide regulations mandating ships at sea burn cleaner diesel fuel, reducing the soot-type particles they’re emitting that previously formed heat-reflective clouds.
— And, of course, the current El Niño ocean pattern appears to be drawing heat from the ocean up to the surface where it’s transferred to the atmosphere in unprecedented amounts.
But regardless of the why/how, something has definitely happened in the past year or so that has pushed our atmosphere’s state of equilibrium out of an older, stable range and into a newer, warmer, and apparently far less stable state.
It’s so dramatic and so shocking that scientists — typically not prone to hyperbole — publishing in the peer-reviewed journal BioScience about this anomaly open their article with:
“Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory.
“For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.
“Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as an alarming and unprecedented succession of climate records are broken, causing profoundly distressing scenes of suffering to unfold. We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity.”
Looking at 35 different “vital signs” that signal the health of our planet and its atmosphere, 20 of which have deviated from their norms so badly as to alarm researchers, the scientists who wrote for BioScience warn us all:
“We are venturing into uncharted climate territory.”
In just the past 24 hours, a tropical storm that nobody thought was a threat blew up into a full-on Category 5 hurricane and is, as you’re reading these words, devastating Acapulco. Not one weather agency predicted it: this is how unpredictable and violent our weather has become because we’re still burning fossil fuels.
LINK
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:11 am to djmed
We should all go broke to save the planet.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:12 am to djmed
Eat the bugs, live in the pod, pay more taxes, and trust your overlords (who will do none of those things) and we'll be fine.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:15 am to djmed
quote:
a tropical storm that nobody thought was a threat blew up into a full-on Category 5 hurricane and is, as you’re reading these words, devastating Acapulco. Not one weather agency predicted it: this is how unpredictable and violent our weather has become because we’re still burning fossil fuels.
Oh yes, weather= climate when we need it to, but doesn't when we don't.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:17 am to djmed
This stuff reminds me of the nutjob on the street corner holding up a sign saying, "The end is nigh".
It's a sign of narcissism to think you're so important the end will come during your lifetime.
It's a sign of narcissism to think you're so important the end will come during your lifetime.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:17 am to djmed
Most of what this article cited were things totally beyond Man's control. Morons.
These would have occurred if there wasn't a single human on the planet. Morons.
None of the alleged causes of this "tipping point" were man made. Except that ships are burning CLEANER FUEL. Morons.
Morons. Druids. Communists. Redistributionists. Did I say Morons?
These would have occurred if there wasn't a single human on the planet. Morons.
None of the alleged causes of this "tipping point" were man made. Except that ships are burning CLEANER FUEL. Morons.
Morons. Druids. Communists. Redistributionists. Did I say Morons?
This post was edited on 10/26/23 at 9:19 am
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:18 am to djmed
quote:
In just the past 24 hours, a tropical storm that nobody thought was a threat blew up into a full-on Category 5 hurricane and is, as you’re reading these words, devastating Acapulco. Not one weather agency predicted it: this is how unpredictable and violent our weather has become because we’re still burning fossil fuels
Katrina was considered an afterthought once it hit Florida and was headed toward Louisiana until it wasn’t.
We also had several hurricanes hit back to back in that same timeframe which went from 4s to 1s right before landfall because it hit a pocket of cold water. Which ran on identical tracks.
We don’t know enough about these storms to predict them accurately but, sure, it is fossil fuels causing this. Can’t POSSIBLY be that we aren’t smart enough to understand how nature works.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:19 am to djmed
Climate alarmists are starting to sound indistinguishable from Doomsday cults
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:20 am to djmed
This is why I store ammunition
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:22 am to djmed
quote:
Some scientists argue it was caused by a change in worldwide regulations mandating ships at sea burn cleaner diesel fuel, reducing the soot-type particles they’re emitting that previously formed heat-reflective clouds.
If this were remotely true the weather would have dramatically changed in April 2020 when covid shut the world down
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:22 am to Shamoan
quote:
This is why I store ammunition
To shoot the author of this garbage?
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:23 am to djmed
quote:
“Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as an alarming and unprecedented succession of climate records are broken, causing profoundly distressing scenes of suffering to unfold. We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity.”
Sound like more "Chicken Little" hyperbole.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:23 am to djmed
Half of the Northern hemisphere was once entirely under ice. It is accepted as fact that an asteroid once caused a mass extinction event.
But I'm supposed to panic over a hurricane that hit a Mexican resort town?
Who are these people? Get some perspective.
But I'm supposed to panic over a hurricane that hit a Mexican resort town?
Who are these people? Get some perspective.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:25 am to djmed
quote:
In just the past 24 hours, a tropical storm that nobody thought was a threat blew up into a full-on Category 5 hurricane and is, as you’re reading these words, devastating Acapulco. Not one weather agency predicted it: this is how unpredictable and violent our weather has become because we’re still burning fossil fuels.
This isn’t unprecedented. Recency bias is strong with this article. Human hubris remains undefeated
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:31 am to djmed
Article references the volcano eruption, but conveniently omits the amount of CO2 spewed into the high atmosphere.
Article fails to reference a major CO2 release - the largest of the year in fact - the intentional bombing of the underwater gas pipeline.
I find this article to be weak, lazy propaganda.
Article fails to reference a major CO2 release - the largest of the year in fact - the intentional bombing of the underwater gas pipeline.
I find this article to be weak, lazy propaganda.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:32 am to Wildcat1996
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Half of the Northern hemisphere was once entirely under ice. It is accepted as fact that an asteroid once caused a mass extinction event.
...and a good portion of North America was underwater at one time. I'd be more concerned if the climate WASN'T changing.
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:33 am to djmed
Interesting article but..
My own opinion of the climate variation and subsequent changes is that Tongan volcano, an effect that within itself should ameliorate in a few years, is what is heating up the "obscure little tiny corner"..
I am more concerned with other factors - maybe from the same thing, maybe not... like where are all the bugs? Notice anything different on your front bumper when you wash your vehicle?
or was the mass of insect carnage on bumpers in the past the apocalyptic factor that we had no way of noticing prior to the existence of vehicle bumpers?
"it's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." - Stephen Wright
quote:the entirety of the theatric effort of such a statement is difficult to overstate - a warning of further hyperbole.
this tiny planet we live on in an obscure corner of our Milky Way galaxy
My own opinion of the climate variation and subsequent changes is that Tongan volcano, an effect that within itself should ameliorate in a few years, is what is heating up the "obscure little tiny corner"..
I am more concerned with other factors - maybe from the same thing, maybe not... like where are all the bugs? Notice anything different on your front bumper when you wash your vehicle?
or was the mass of insect carnage on bumpers in the past the apocalyptic factor that we had no way of noticing prior to the existence of vehicle bumpers?
"it's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." - Stephen Wright
This post was edited on 10/26/23 at 9:34 am
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:33 am to djmed
quote:
It’s so dramatic and so shocking that scientists — typically not prone to hyperbole
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:35 am to djmed
So they're covering for the fact that Bill Gates and China are dumping dirt in the atmosphere. They bragged about it last year.
This post was edited on 10/26/23 at 9:36 am
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