The recent bout with smoke in the northeast, of course, had all sorts of attention. It is rightful, of course, to emphasize how bad it was. But because of the way things are today, the explanations immediately became void of reasoned examination of cause as the cry of you-know-what was pushed by people who have no idea what they are talking about in weather or climate but are willing to use it for their other purposes.
The latest is the record-warm global temperature, an exercise in ignorance if you ever wish to see one.
What is wild is the explanations reveal why the opposite, if not true, needs to be considered.
Of course, people who know little about it push it. If they knew something about it, they would ensure they framed it correctly.
And while there are elements of truth, it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Consider the comment from Climate Psych ( the person has a Ph.D., I guess it is in climate psychology):
“I have usually talked about the climate collapse coming in ‘years not decades’ But maybe we are at the point where we should be talking about Months.”
90 north to 90 south is where this is taken; that’s the whole planet.
Well, look what is going on south of 60 south;
that looks darn cold, does it not?
But look what contribution it makes to the temperature above;
Now suppose we looked at the planet without Antarctica; still frigid, but we know what is happening in the polar region and it is linked to WV, adding major amounts to the skewing of the temperature. Again look at all that red;
look at the fact that its still dang cold.
But once north of 60 South, its almost a wash;
then we get to this wonderful piece of information from a group called Yale Environment 360:
Somehow Yale does not understand that CO2 is not cooling the stratosphere, but the natural expansion of the troposphere would. Yet there is one monster problem.
THE STRATOSPHERE IS NOT COOLING OVER THE TROPICS, IT’S WARMING!
IT IS COOLING ALRIGHT BUT IT IS OVER THE POLES! And that is a function of WV, not CO2. Again, extra water vapor means more warming where it’s coldest and driest. CO2 is not “trapping heat” over the arctic regions. Increased WV due to natural oceanic warming is impacting those areas more. So it’s a distortion. But it runs opposite the trapping hot spot theory over the tropics that has been pushed. That is supposed to be from the level of nondivergence (500 mb) to the top of the troposphere, not in the stratosphere. A warming stratosphere over the tropics is the opposite of what has been pushed.
It’s amazing what I am seeing coming out today. They actually use things that should cause questioning of their own ideas and claim it supports their ideas.
Our field is not going to survive as a science with this lack of questioning ( and I am not talking about everyone getting on social media or TV). No science would. I don’t care if it’s medicine, geology, or astronomy. If you simply run roughshod with a set of ideas that don’t have people questioning, especially when they would, indicates another set of ideas, whether right or wrong, but at least worthy of attention, should be considered. The only place you are going with today’s version of science is into some kind of scientific abyss.
Between the smoke out and the other things, it’s been a rough week. And now NOAA has declared an El Nino. And the hurricane season is on us. And it is going to get hot in Texas. Lookout!
All this is nature. And all will be portrayed as a sign of a catastrophe for what is a climate optimum.