The Greenhouse Gases in all forms need to stop being emitted into the troposphere of Earth.

That thin blue line in the composition it is now must be maintained.

Over the past couple of weeks, it has been evident there is substantial information about the transfer of water vapor and oxygen from the troposphere into the stratosphere since the high tropospheric vortexes showed up in 2002.

When the climate crisis was called global warming it was thought there would be a linear progression for 100 years. That all changed in 2002 when the vortexes showed up. The linear progression became exponential and the warming escalated.

For over a half a century scientists have been warning every country on the planet that drastically bad effects of high level of greenhouse gases were to be expected. 

Do you believe them now?

The petroleum industry is over. It is over and it must stay that way. There is no going back, the path forward is obvious and we must follow it.

The atmospheres of Earth are mixing. The tropospheric vortex is under assault all the time. How does any reasonable human being believe a FRIGID AIR MASS will remain in place when the surrounding air mass is warm? The Arctic Vortex has to be cold in order to be supported over Earth's north pole. When the Arctic Vortex is able to support a warmer Stratospheric vortex that occurs because of the ice caps and persistent frigid temperatures maintains the vortex where it belongs.

The Stratosphere is not supposed to come and visit on a regular basis. That is supposed to be a highly unusual occurrence. This occurrence this year is unheard of in history. There has never been any imbalance of the vortices of the north traveling this far south. The mid-latitudes is usually the worst it gets. This is an extremely worrying event, even if Texas wasn't this affected.

In order to HOPE to return Earth's atmospheric balance, the change has to come now. There is no more waiting and planning. The evidence of the mixing of the atmospheres is to overwhelming to ignore. The facts are there and while scientists that make those measurements are attempting to understand it from their own perspective, their facts are correct they simply aren't correlated with the manifestation of the upper and persistent atmospheric vortexes that began in 2002 and have continued ever since. 

You don't ask an orthopedist to do heart transplant surgery, well, you don't ask stratospheric scientists to look to the troposphere for answers to their own understandings. There are specialists of all kinds no matter the practice of science.

The changes in water vapor in the Stratosphere and quite possibly the Mesosphere cannot be ignored. Gas layers MUST remain intact around Earth and the slow degradation of that separation cannot be tolerated any longer. The oxygen exchange that can occur between the Troposphere and the Stratosphere will be catastrophic. It has to be recognized for the threat it is to life on Earth and we must steer away from what is causing it.

President Biden is the very person we need in the White House and the small majority of the US House and Senate Democrats is exactly where we need to be. These issues must be addressed now and with no delay.

A little taste of Oklahoma and the vortex.

February 16, 2021
By Ryan Novozinski

Stillwater’s temperature (click here) on Tuesday reached 9 degrees fahrenheit –– which is currently lower than Anchorage, Alaska and Moscow, Russia.

These frigid temperatures come during a record winter storm that blasted most of the United States this week.

Temperatures became so low that Oklahoma State University opted out of in-person classes this week and warned students of the dangers of hypothermia.

The cold also impacted the city’s energy. Stillwater Mayor Will Joyce warned residents on Twitter that there could be additional outages due to cold weather Tuesday night....

February 15, 2021
By Maddison Farris

Stillwater avoided a potential blackout (click here) earlier this afternoon, but an intentional power outage has been put into motion for tonight. Between the hours of 10 p.m. and 1 a.m., portions of the City of Stillwater will lose power for anywhere from 30-45 minutes.

It is unclear whether or not the OSU campus is included in this power outage, but students should be sure to have plenty of blankets and warm clothing.

This outage is necessary according to the Southwest Power Pool, as not enough energy is being generated to support the grid. These “rolling blackouts” will take place in multiple locations at staggered times to lighten the load of needed energy....

One more time.

February 19. 2021
By Hope McKinney

In Unalaska, it’s also been the rainiest start to February since 2004. So far, the island has recorded more than eight inches of rain this month, with more than a week left to go. The normal February precipitation for Unalaska is six and a half inches.

While much of Alaska (click here) has been bitterly cold this month, the Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula have been extraordinarily mild.

It’s part of the recent warming pattern in the Bering Sea, and communities along the Aleutian Chain can expect a similar trend moving forward, says Rick Thoman, a climate specialist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

“Because the oceans are warming, and the climate of the Aleutians is so dominated by the oceans — unless the atmosphere does something particularly unusual, we’re aiming for a warmer than what used to be considered normal February,” Thoman said.

Much of Interior Alaska has been cooler than normal this month because of cold air coming out of Northwest Canada or down from the high Arctic, he said. But the lower Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians Islands haven’t seen a similar trend, and it’s shaping up to be one of the mildest Februaries on record for the region.

“There really hasn’t been a push of colder air from Siberia across the Bering Sea,” Thoman said. “That’s how the Aleutians can get their cold weather, and that just has been completely lacking so far in February.”...

For years I posted a daily reality of the warmer temperatures in Alaska. Doesn't it make sense yet?

November 18, 2021
By Kristin Hetterman

...What locals are noticing, (click here) scientists and satellites are reinforcing. Alaska’s sea ice had unprecedented melting this summer, with the National Weather Service reporting there was no sea ice left within 150 miles of Alaskan coastlines. Satellite measurements done by NASA show summer sea ice levels in the Arctic have dropped by approximately 40 percent since the late 1970s. Sea ice—frozen ocean water—forms, grows and melts in the ocean, as compared to icebergs, glaciers and ice shelves that float in the ocean but originate on land.

Loss of sea ice has serious implications for animals and indigenous practices, with native people relying on the sea ice to support their living ecosystem that is dependent on fish and wildlife. Food security has become a major instigator for the planet’s first official climate refugees, with a recent U.N. report estimating two billion people face moderate to severe food insecurity due largely to the warming planet with escalating extreme weather events and shifting weather patterns. Behavioral adaptations are key to survival, and the Inupiat in the far north are by necessity deep into navigating what those adaptations are going to look like....

...The Arctic summer of 2019 headlined well-above-average temperatures, warmer seas and a historic July heat wave going into the unprecedented 90’s. In terms of records, July was the hottest month ever recorded on planet Earth since 1880, when modern recordkeeping began. In 2017, Cook Inletkeeper published projections for nonglacial stream temperatures in different case scenarios for climate change in Alaska, projecting out to 2069. Shockingly, temperatures recorded in 2019 surpassed even the worst-case projections for 50 years in the future....

This melting isn't new.

27 September 2008

By Ed Pilkington

Newtok in Alaska, where global warming is forcing the entire community to relocate.

...It is here on Nelson Island (click here) that America's first global-warming refugee camp is being built. Three houses, neatly arranged on stilts in the style of Peter John's home back in Newtok, are already nearing completion. The villagers built them themselves, with the help of government grants, on land that is high enough up the hillside to be safe from the dangers of climate change - rising sea levels, flash flooding, erosion - for decades, if not centuries, to come. The first three homes have been assigned to village elders, including Stanley's father, Nick Tom. As Stanley shows us around the new houses, with their wood-burning stoves and mail-order catalogue kitchens, he talks of his huge relief that the move has begun. 'The elders are our advisers; they are our resources. We owe it to them to provide them with a life without trouble and worry. I can sleep at night now, knowing my father will be safe.'...

This is absolutely brutal cruelty. I take it the hospitals were incapacited as well?

In circumstances such as this that is what would be the normal course of care. He should have been taken to a hospital emergency room where oxygen should have been plentiful. 

February 18, 2021
By Nick Powell, Alejandro Serrano, and Brooke A. Lewis

Soon after Carrol Anderson (click here) lost power in his Crosby home earlier this week, his oxygen machine stopped working. He had asked his provider for more tanks the previous week but didn’t get any before harsh winter conditions set in. The 75-year old Vietnam War veteran turned to two small bottles of oxygen he had, but his supply quickly depleted.

With no firewood left and temperatures plummeting, Anderson turned to his last resort to breathe: A small portable oxygen tank he kept in his truck.

“He shouldn’t have had to die because he couldn’t breathe because we didn’t have power,” said Gloria Anderson, Carrol’s wife of 30 years, through tears in a telephone interview.

Anderson’s death was one of four deaths caused by hypothermia that Harris County authorities announced on Thursday. Two people, Jimmie Gloud and Mary Gee, died at their Houston homes. A man was also found dead early Thursday in a parking lot in the northern part of Harris County, a fatality also attributed to the cold weather.

As temperatures rose and the Houston region began to thaw after several days of sub-freezing temperatures, the number of reported local deaths related to cold weather doubled on Thursday, bringing the toll of the crisis into sharper focus....

This is what the polar vortex looked like on January 18, 2021.

There are five different divisions of arctic air. The ability of the vortex to remain stable appears to be impossible. That is not good. It should be more resilient to Rossby Waves than this. 

 

I appreciate the article from Politico and their recognition by President Biden on this issue.

February 21, 2021
By Eric Wolff, Debra Kahn, and Zack Colman

Texas and California (click here) may be worlds apart in their politics and climate policies, but they have something in common: Extreme weather crashed their power grids and left people stranded in the dark.

The two sprawling, politically potent states have devoted massive sums to their power networks over the past two decades — California to produce huge amounts of wind and solar energy, Texas to create an efficient, go-it-alone electricity market built on gas, coal, nuclear and wind. But neither could keep the lights on in the face of the type of brutal weather that scientists call a taste of a changing climate.

That presents both an opportunity and a challenge for President Joe Biden, potentially aiding his efforts to draw support from lawmakers and states for his multitrillion-dollar proposals to harden the nation's energy infrastructure to withstand climate change. But he’s already facing entrenched resistance to his pledges to shift the nation to renewable energy by 2035 — including from fossil fuel advocates who have sought to scapegoat wind and solar for the energy woes in both states....

The state of Texas has stated the utility companies cannot send out inflated bills to consumers and then turn off their service. Basically, the companies are not allowed to even mail bills with higher prices per kilowatt hour.

February 21, 2021

By Bill Hutchinson

Texas power providers (click here) Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and Entergy Corporation have been hit with a $100 million lawsuit accusing them of gross negligence in the death of a child whose family suspects he suffered hypothermia when they lost electricity and heat in their mobile home during a historic cold snap.

The mother of 11-year-old Cristian Pineda filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Jefferson County District Court, alleging the utility giants "put profits over the welfare of people" by ignoring previous recommendations to winterize its power grid, which sustained an epic failure last week and left more than 4 million customers without heat and electricity as temperatures in some parts of the state plunged to single digits....

This is out of Stanford.

What I am hoping to have readers understand about this entry is the fact polar vortexes splitting is less normal than a stable vortex system.

From 1989 to 1998, (click here) there were no split vortex events in midwinter. But in recent decades these events have been happening more frequently. This animation shows the polar vortex splitting in 2009.

The current membership of the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) is 195 (click here). They receive reports from thousands of other scientists and compile an international report from these sources. All in all, there are scientists in the tens of thousands attempting to cover the geophysics of Earth. They could use some attention to the specialty to attract more people into the specialty.

...AS: We don’t quite know why the polar vortex doesn’t affect the Pacific basin, but we have some initial hypotheses. We think it has something to do with the location of the jets in the two basins. In the Atlantic basin, the jet stream is located at higher latitudes. In the Pacific basin, it’s closer to the equator....

In order to recognize climate refugees the law of the USA must recognize the climate crisis for future administrations.

Testimony from the past and records of American scientists should be enough to validate for the rule of law, the climate crisis and it's impacts on Americans.

February 5, 2021

Among the flurry of executive orders (click here) marking the debut of the administration of US President Joe Biden was an order on February 4 to overhaul the United States refugee resettlement program and begin to grapple with growing climate-induced migration.

The order addresses flaws that have bedeviled the program for years and details what is needed to fix it, but it also demonstrates refreshing humanitarian purpose.

While acknowledging that refugee admissions are discretionary, the order directs officials not to discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, or other grounds, and instead identify refugees for resettlement “who are more vulnerable to persecution, including women, children, and other individuals who are at risk of persecution related to their gender, gender expression, or sexual orientation.” It calls for exploring avenues of humanitarian protection for vulnerable people who may not qualify as refugees....

...Biden also ordered a report on options for protecting and resettling people displaced directly or indirectly by the effects of climate change. Another order issued earlier in the week laid out a “root causes strategy” for addressing the drivers of migration from Central America, including corruption, crime, sexual and gender-based violence, and economic insecurity and inequality, while also expanding legal migration pathways for labor migrants as well as asylum seekers....

One more short video to bring an understanding of Rossby Waves.

Gravity waves can be found anywhere in space. On Earth they are called Rossby Waves.

Rossby waves (click here) naturally occur in rotating fluids. Within the Earth's ocean and atmosphere, these planetary waves play a significant role in shaping weather. This animation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shows both long and short atmospheric waves as indicated by the jet stream. The colors represent the speed of the wind ranging from slowest (light blue colors) to fastest (dark red).

Anti-gravity yoga

It is over 2 hours long, but, worth watching.

A Poem

 "Gravity" by John Fredrick Nims

Mildest of all the powers of earth: no lightnings

For her—maniacal in the clouds. No need for

Signs with their skull and crossbones, chain-link gates:

Danger! Keep Out! High Gravity! she’s friendlier.

Won’t nurse—unlike the magnetic powers—repugnance;

Would reconcile, draw close: her passion’s love.

No terrors lurking in her depths, like those                                                         

Bound in that buzzing strongbox of the atom,

Terrors that, lossened, turn the hills vesuvian,

Trace in cremation where the cities were.

No, she’s our quiet mother, sensible.

But therefore down-to-earth, not suffering

Fools who play fast and loose among the mountains,

Who fly in her face, or, drunken, clown on cornices.

She taught our ways of walking. Her affection

Adjusted the morning grass, the sands of summer

Until our soles fit snug in each, walk easy.

Holding her hand, we’re safe. Should that hand fail,

The atmosphere we breathe would turn hysterical,

Hiss with tornadoes, spinning us from earth

Into the cold unbreathable desolations.

Yet there—in fields of space—is where she shines,

Ring-mistress of the circus of the stars,

Their prancing carousels, their ferris wheels

Lit brilliant in celebration. Thanks to her

All’s gala in the galaxy.

                                   Down here she

Walks us just right, not like the jokey moon

Burlesquing our human stride to kangaroo hops;

Not like vast planets, whose unbearable mass

Would crush us in a bear hug to their surface

And into the surface, flattened. No: deals fairly.

Makes happy each with each: the willow bend

Just so, the acrobat land true, the keystone

Nestle in place for bridge and for cathedral.

Let us pick up—or mostly—what we need:

Rake, bucket, stone to build with, logs for warmth,

The fallen fruit, the fallen child . . . ourselves.

Instructs us too in honesty: our jointed

Limbs move awry and crisscross, gawky, thwart;

She’s all directness and makes that a grace,

All downright passion for the core of things,

For rectitude, the very ground of being:

Those eyes are leveled where the heart is set.

See, on the tennis court this August day:

How, beyond human error, she’s the one

Whose will the bright balls cherish and obey

—As if in love. She’s tireless in her courtesies

To even the klutz (knees, elbows all a-tangle),

Allowing his poky serve Euclidean whimsies,

The looniest lob its joy: serene parabolas.

A national climate emergency is needed.

So far the death toll in Texas from the climate emergency is 50. That exceeds the number of deaths from the California wildfires.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex...

 ...needs bottled water as soon as the roads are passable. What I have seen are people with buckets walking to their homes. A gallon of water weighs over 8 pounds. Water distribution in that manner will prohibit the elderly from obtaining it.

Any sort of door to door effort by authorities or volunteer group will accomplish many task including water delivery as well as turning off running water at the street. Every home and apartment with broken pipes will have to have there water turned off in order to build up pressure. Repairing the water main alone will not provide relief.

It is going to take time for homes to dry out and replace pipes. There will be a health concern in the long view of mold and fungus developing in walls. Saturated carpeting is probably not salvageable. Wood floors will warp and can be a health concern, too. This is an enormous housing problem and tents maybe an answer in the short term.

Concrete and brick foundations will need inspection regularly as hairline cracks can become foundation problems. This is more than flood damage, this is frozen water damage, too.