Environment

[Mori Chu]

Yeah, weird, it's almost like the whole globe is warming, or something. Some kind of ... Global warming.

[Superbone]

Yeah, weird, it's almost like the whole globe is warming, or something. Some kind of ... Global warming.

Interesting concept. You might just be onto something.

[In2ition]

The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (to Our Peril)
Posted on February 16, 2020 by The Ethical Skeptic
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/1 ... our-peril/

[AmareIsGod]

The Climate Change Alternative We Ignore (to Our Peril)
Posted on February 16, 2020 by The Ethical Skeptic
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/1 ... our-peril/

Thank you. Have you read this and can give a layman summary? Been heavily heads down in work and quickly realized this guy uses a lot of words and science I'm not familiar with. I'd love to roll my sleeves up and try to digest it all.

[In2ition]

I'm in the same boat, tbh.

[AmareIsGod]

I'm in the same boat, tbh.

LOL! I guess I'll stick to IT for a living haha.

[In2ition]

I'm in the same boat, tbh.

LOL! I guess I'll stick to IT for a living haha.

As soon as I get some time, I'll try to dive in more deeply. This is probably old hat and light work for some on the forum though. Maybe they'll be kind enough to weigh in after reading it.

[Nodack]

Wille said the warm conditions over Antarctica were spurred by an extreme atmospheric river, or a narrow corridor of water vapor in the sky, on its east coast. According to computer models, the atmospheric river made landfall on Tuesday between the Dumont d’Urville and Casey Stations and dropped an intense amount of rainfall, potentially causing a significant melt event in the area.

The moisture from the storm diffused and spread over the interior of the continent. However, a strong blocking high pressure system or “heat dome,” moved in over east Antarctica, preventing the moisture from escaping. The heat dome was exceptionally intense, five standard deviations above normal.

The excessive moisture from the atmospheric river was able to retain large amounts of heat, while the liquid-rich clouds radiated the heat down to the surface — known as downward long-wave radiation.
Wille explained warm air is often transported over the Antarctic interior this way but not to this extent or intensity. “[T]his is not something we’ve seen before,” he said. “This moisture is the reason why the temperatures have gotten just so high.”

Wille said it’s difficult to attribute this one event to climate change at the moment, but he does think rising temperatures helped prime conditions for such an event. Climate change is “loading the dice” for more situations like this, he said.
Wille and his colleagues are studying how climate change will affect the circulation patterns around Antarctica and whether atmospheric rivers will become more common or more intense.
“We do believe they will become more intense because it just simple physics … but the details, we’re still trying to figure that out. It would be very difficult to say that there’s not a climate change fingerprint on an event like this,” he said.

[Nodack]

I started that second ne and said maybe some other time.

[In2ition]

Where did you get that from?

[Mori Chu]

There's no need to read an article that tries to explain away climate change. The cause of these high temperatures is climate change. It is as simple as that. People who come up with elaborate theories to try to minimize or explain away climate change have an agenda, and it's the agenda of "duh." Ignore them.

[In2ition]

There's no need to read an article that tries to explain away climate change. The cause of these high temperatures is climate change. It is as simple as that. People who come up with elaborate theories to try to minimize or explain away climate change have an agenda, and it's the agenda of "duh." Ignore them.

It's obvious that you didn't read it, because if you did, you wouldn't have written what you just did. It doesn't explain away climate change, lol.

[Split T]

Ya I didn’t really understand the weather pattern technical details, but from what I gathered:

Unique weather pattern that Antartica experiences regularly, only this time it was more intense than usual. Not directly caused by global warming, but global warming makes these events more likely and more intense.