Climate Study

The wind seems to be picking up!!!!






http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes

Could Antarctic Melt Cause Massive Sea Rise? Science Says Yes

3mm per year = 8 years - 1" .....

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/24/nasa-notes-sea-level-is-falling-in-press-release-but-calls-it-a-pothole-on-road-to-higher-seas/

Further on in that article there is this graph with the comment on it below, in italics.

(The vertical scale on the right shows the rainfall departure from the normal yearly average for each area, and the scale goes from -0.05 meters [red] to +0.05 meters [blue].)

The sea level was going up at about 3 mm per year. In the last year it fell about 6 mm. So that's a change of about a centimetre of water that NASA says has fallen on land and been absorbed rather than returned to the ocean. But of course, the land is much smaller than the ocean … so for the ocean to change by a centimetre, the land has to change about 2.3 cm.

To do that, the above map would have to average a medium blue well up the scale … and it's obvious from the map that there's no way that's happening. So I hate to say this, but their explanation doesn't … hold water …

That would be true if the measurement of ocean rise were just attributed to added water....but that's not the case, it has to do with temperature increase, as the ocean water heats it expands and rises....

Better explain that to NASA. The article was quoting NASA in saying the drop in ocean level was attributed to more rain over land.

Maybe the rainwater contains the heat necessary to warm the ocean but having fallen on land deprived the ocean of that heat, and hence the drop in water level....

Bluddy heat sinks. Never there where you expect them!

Last night I looked into the biggest one!

Why do we not consider that its raining upwards on bad days? Its been some bad days somewhere! . . .

"The researchers even thought it was possible that evaporation could have a warming effect on global climate, because water vapor acts as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Also, the energy taken up in evaporating water is released back into the environment when the water vapor condenses and returns to earth, mostly as rain. Globally, this cycle of evaporation and condensation moves energy around, but cannot create or destroy energy. So, evaporation cannot directly affect the global balance of energy on our planet."

"Increased evaporation tends to cause clouds to form low in the atmosphere, which act to reflect the sun's warming rays back out into space. This has a cooling influence.

"This shows us that the evaporation of water from trees and lakes in urban parks, like New York's Central Park, not only help keep our cities cool, but also helps keep the whole planet cool," Caldeira said. "Our research also shows that we need to improve our understanding of how our daily activities can drive changes in both local and global climate. That steam coming out of your tea-kettle may be helping to cool the Earth, but that cooling influence will be overwhelmed if that water was boiled by burning gas or coal.""

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/16/water-evaporated-from-trees-cools-global-climate/

That proves someting I heard that the atmosphere is cooling the planet. The prove was made by the moon which virtually has almost not atmosphere and gets searing hot in the sun (but of course also searing cold) without. I would say the atmosphere is temperture leveling between night and day. Once we quantify these effects we can go on in the next round for the warming issues . . .

Did any of you clowns go look at the site to see what they are doing?

IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GLOBAL WARMING!

how weather scientists study climatology of tropical cyclones

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