One of the most troubling ideas about climate change just found new evidence ….
Visualization of a very wavy Northern Hemisphere jet stream. (NASA)
Ever since 2012, scientists have been debating a complex and frankly explosive idea about how a warming planet will alter our weather — one that, if it’s correct, would have profound implications across the Northern Hemisphere and especially in its middle latitudes, where hundreds of millions of people live.
The idea is that climate change doesn’t merely increase the overall likelihood of heat waves, say, or the volume of rainfall — it also changes the flow of weather itself. By altering massive planet-scale air patterns like the jet stream (pictured here), which flows in waves from west to east in the Northern Hemisphere, a warming planet causes our weather to become more stuck in place. This means that a given weather pattern, whatever it may be, may persist for longer, thus driving extreme droughts, heat waves, downpours and more.
This basic idea has sparked half a decade of criticism and debate, and at the cutting edge of research, scientists continue to grapple with it. And now, a new study once again reinforces one of its core aspects.
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I readily concede that I do not know (does anyone?) whether “Global Warming” is just a phase in a cycle; or it is a non-reversing trend upward. Is it like that part of my journey where I can ‘floor the gas pedal’ for a bit? Or will there be some ‘slow-downs’ ahead? Will I average 50 mph? – my average for this regular trip. What if that recently completed ‘spaghetti junction’ really works? – and, in future, I can look forward to a higher average speed for my trip.
But if I were President of the most technologically advanced nation on earth, I would be a lot more cautious about unravelling the carefully woven safeguards against natural events that are potentially capable of death and destruction. Safeguards which were put in place as a result of the best verifiable information at our availability.
Or maybe, in language that the incumbent POTUS might understand; “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up,”
As someone else put it; if at the end of this life, I find that there is no heaven, I still would have lived a good life preparing for it.
There is also the saying, a drowning man would cling to a straw. If you visit some of these coal mining states such as Kentucky, and saw how desperate some poor white people are, you would understand how Trump could sell them fairy tale promises. Everyone knows the coal industry is not coming back. Lets see when these folks will wake up.
Yes!!! The more desperate they are, the better for the predators.
The methodology of “brainwashing” is within living memory. In short, it was stripping the individual of all human dignity – naked in a dark cell, no interaction with others, disoriented in time and place. Finally, the individual’s mind is like putty in the hands of the manipulator. A “James Bond” story, ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’? explained the process well.
Sometimes, circumstances strip an individual of human dignity; and there are these predatory characters ever ready to take advantage.
Remember the “3-card tricksters” along Lombard Street?
Jim Jones?
Candidate Trump’s “What have you got to lose?”
Variations on a theme.