September 07, 2007
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UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Satellite
The dissipation of the storms that were dramatic yesterday is rather alarming. The same occurred only a week or so ago with another 'set' of storms. The lull after the manifestation of a Cat 5 storm is more than notable. The fact of the matter, there is preciously little 'available' water vapor to support these storms. The reason the storms occurred this time of year rather than earlier and at lower latitudes rather than more northern is because Sol's radiation had to concentrate in the region of Earth where water vapor existed in abundance to provide enough 'energy' and it's absorbance by water vapor to allow these storms to manifest. To many that is 'not news' HOWEVER this reality is accompanied with drought in Western USA; which is on fire everywhere; unique flooding in areas of the country not usually 'under water,' melting ice caps and sea level rise. These storms manifested as the 'only' seasonal turbulence due to extraordinary climate conditions under a very thick carbon dioxide blanket.
In the image above the dissipation of storm intensity is amazing to realize the disappearing of water vapor to a very hot troposphere. The storms are dissipating rapidly as soon as they are exposed to super hot terra firma. Not just dissipating, but, evaporating.
I want to point to the water vapor intensity believed to be a burgeoning hurricane that would organize enough to drench the northeast USA. While I applaud the weather service in following every possibility to save human life and they should continue to do so without a doubt in my mind, I propose this reality. Could it be that the low pressure off the Carolinas would move out to sea and to northern latitudes only to dissipate rather than concentrate because there is NOT enough tropospheric water vapor to support an increasing velocity of a storm. I remind earlier in the season there was a tropical storm near the latitude of New York State so the ocean temperatures are plenty warm enough to spawn a storm but with increased heat of the tropsophere there just isn't enough water vapor to maintain that level of velocity. The Tropical Storm near New York State earlier in the year manifested as this land mass was emerging from huge floods and a very percipitated winter. In other words, a saturated land mass that made water vapor available to the troposphere regionally.
The reason I point to this is because the populous of the USA have to come to terms with the severity of climate change this dictates to their society. Deaths in the southwest due to very high temperatures, storms that have drenched the Mississippi River system and the Great Lakes area, Texas as well due to Gulf Storm evaporation, and Central America struggling to survive when they are little equipped to do so. And that is just the Western and Northern Hemisphere. When anyone with a conscience puts these understandings to work globally, there is profound drought in Australia, storms in Asia killing and displacing people in multiples, droughts in Africa and species of all kinds threatened and moving toward extinction.
We have to come to grips with the reality of Human Induced Global Warming and it's profound future to destroy any livable climate. Weather is not possible without tropospheric water vapor and with a super hot air masse Earth is facing not just drought but an unavailable water supply if this continues without USA cooperation to dramatic measures.
I believe the role of the USA weather service extends beyond prediction capacity but also maintaining an understanding with the public they serve that climate change is due to Human Induced Global Warming and while that source of carbon dioxide continues to spew high levels to the troposphere the danger increases to human life. This is 'not' politics. Human Induced Global Warming is a reality and is a danger to human life as well as the species of plant and animals we value and the oceans we count on to be plentiful. This issue has been labeled as political because it threatens traditional forms of energy as outdated and dangerous including the oil and gas industry, hence, opposing that reality of Human Induced Global Warming has been assigned to the Republican Party. The Republican Party of the USA traditionally supports business over any humanitarian efforts. The fact the Democrats have stepped up fearlessly to 'take on' this challenge to change the face of energy and transportation in the USA is simply a reality we all need to come to appreciate to 'save the future' for our children. There is nothing to prevent George Walker Bush from coming out tomorrow with an aggressive change proposal in the energy and transporation infrastructure EXCEPT for perhaps the personal and political agenda of the likes of Dick Cheney. The LACK of a USA president to address such drastically important issues is unconscionable. The challenge to any professional in weather forecasting and caring for the public they inform is to hold the line on the understanding of Human Induced Global Warming to promote it's reality and it's relationship with carbon dioxide with a clear path to tropospheric hostility that accompanies that reality.
Not long ago, I believe Goddard Labs came out to predict more numerous and more volitile storms including tornadoes due to the climate change of Human Induced Global Warming. Taking this path of public awareness is not a matter of being a maverick in the weather prediction business, it is correct and promotable with current scienfitic findings. It is correct and prudent to be proactive to facilitate public awareness of their responsbility in finding solutions to end this deadly trend of the tropsophere.
All too often I hear statements from professionals that 'we are over the edge already' and hence tends to demoralize their resolve to promote the understanding of Human Induced Global Warming and opting to 'hold the hand' of the populous of the USA as they demise their own planet. That is simply a matter of 'spiritual distress' to those that have 'believed' for so long and never seeing a reason for changing their belief regarding their vision to change the way the USA relates to energy and transportation. There is 'a lot' of satification for these professions to realize the ARE the answer and always have been with the ability to say, "I told you so" being the relief to their chronic state of 'battling' to make 'the truth' survive.
Oh, one other thing, that burgeoning vortex in the center of North America? Pay attention to it.
