Why these events are so upsetting to many in the scientific community is because governments have not acted on these predictions until is appears nearly too late. Let's hope it is not.
Scientists in the 1950s and 1960s and as far back as the time of the discovery of Ford Motor Company have stated imbalance in the amount of greenhouse gases would cause drastic changes in climate. The problem as it presents itself today was suppose to be avoided at all costs. Today water vapor from Earth's troposphere is not showing up in Earth's mesosphere where it has absolutely no effect on climate.
The changes in energy sources occurring today in the way of renewables/alternatives were suppose to be incorporated into the global needs as fossil fuels became antiquated and obsolete for the problems they were causing in climate.
Governments instead of following the recommendations of their scientists played their own game of politics to evade what was to be the most dangerous global trend next to nuclear weapons. The power of money and influence is what has put Earth in a record warming trend that promises to get worse.
Politicians found it easy to evade the truth simply because Earth's climate shift occurs over longer periods of time and reacts to the condition of land and oceans under it's atmosphere. So, when politicians looked for old trends to explain away the concern for Earth's climate they weren't difficult to find simply because the worst was never suppose to happen, but, today cannot be denied.
September 29, 2014
By News Staff
...Like a large boulder (click here) that has tumbled into a narrow stream, the Triple R diverted the flow of high-speed air currents known as the jet stream far to the north, causing Pacific storms to bypass not only California, but also Oregon and Washington. As a result, rain and snow that would normally fall on the West Coast were instead re-routed to Alaska and as far north as the Arctic Circle.
Scientists in the 1950s and 1960s and as far back as the time of the discovery of Ford Motor Company have stated imbalance in the amount of greenhouse gases would cause drastic changes in climate. The problem as it presents itself today was suppose to be avoided at all costs. Today water vapor from Earth's troposphere is not showing up in Earth's mesosphere where it has absolutely no effect on climate.
The changes in energy sources occurring today in the way of renewables/alternatives were suppose to be incorporated into the global needs as fossil fuels became antiquated and obsolete for the problems they were causing in climate.
Governments instead of following the recommendations of their scientists played their own game of politics to evade what was to be the most dangerous global trend next to nuclear weapons. The power of money and influence is what has put Earth in a record warming trend that promises to get worse.
Politicians found it easy to evade the truth simply because Earth's climate shift occurs over longer periods of time and reacts to the condition of land and oceans under it's atmosphere. So, when politicians looked for old trends to explain away the concern for Earth's climate they weren't difficult to find simply because the worst was never suppose to happen, but, today cannot be denied.
September 29, 2014By News Staff
...Like a large boulder (click here) that has tumbled into a narrow stream, the Triple R diverted the flow of high-speed air currents known as the jet stream far to the north, causing Pacific storms to bypass not only California, but also Oregon and Washington. As a result, rain and snow that would normally fall on the West Coast were instead re-routed to Alaska and as far north as the Arctic Circle.
An important question for scientists and decision-makers has been whether human-caused climate change has influenced the conditions responsible for California's drought. Given the important role of the Triple R, Diffenbaugh's team set out to measure the probability of such extreme ridging events. The team first assessed the rarity of the Triple R in the context of the 20th century historical record. They found that the combined persistence and intensity of the Triple R in 2013 was unrivaled by any event since 1948, which is when comprehensive information about the circulation of the atmosphere is first available.
To more directly address the question of whether climate change played a role in the probability of the 2013 event, the team collaborated with Bala Rajaratnam, assistant professor of Statistics and of Environmental Earth System Science, and an affiliated faculty of the Woods Institute for the Environment. Rajaratnam and his graduate students Michael Tsiang and Matz Haugen applied advanced statistical techniques to a large suite of climate model simulations. Using the Triple R as a benchmark, the group compared geopotential heights–an atmospheric property related to pressure– between two sets of climate model experiments. One set mirrored the present climate, in which the atmosphere is growing increasingly warm due to human emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. In the other set of experiments, greenhouse gases were kept at a level similar to those that existed just prior to the Industrial Revolution.
The interdisciplinary research team found that the extreme geopotential heights associated with the Triple R in 2013 were at least three times as likely to occur in the present climate as in the preindustrial climate. They also found that such extreme values are consistently tied to unusually low precipitation in California, and the formation of atmospheric ridges over the northeastern Pacific.
"We've demonstrated with high statistical confidence that the large-scale atmospheric conditions, similar to those associated with the Triple R, are far more likely to occur now than in the climate before we emitted large amounts of greenhouse gases," Rajaratnam said....
