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And hesitant northern atlantic currents?Recently discovered hydrothermal vents in relatively shallow water around the Azores?
And hesitant northern atlantic currents?Recently discovered hydrothermal vents in relatively shallow water around the Azores?
Don't think so. This seems to be a surface heating event, by what I've read.Recently discovered hydrothermal vents in relatively shallow water around the Azores?
Wow, I had heard of buildings sinking into bogs as permafrost melted, but mountain tops crashing into valleys is a bit mad.Summit cross also lost.
Part of a Swiss mountain's summit has collapsed, sending more than 3.5 million cubic feet (100,000 cubic meters) of rock crashing into the valley below. The incident was likely a result of thawing permafrost — and scientists have warned similar events are to be expected as climate change causes ancient frozen ground to degrade.
The incident occurred on June 11 after an extensive period of high temperatures in the country. Videos reveal the sudden collapse of Fluchthorn's summit, an almost 11,155-foot (3,400 meters) mountain in the Silvretta Alps, on the border of Switzerland and Austria.
"Half of the summit was torn away by the demolition," mountain rescuer Riccardo Mizio told Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung (translated), adding the summit cross — a Christian cross marking the peak of a mountain — was missing. No one was injured by the rockfall.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-...eak-frozen-for-thousands-of-years-to-collapse
Recently discovered hydrothermal vents in relatively shallow water around the Azores?
I don't know Myth, but googling came up with this: https://www.livescience.com/first-off-axis-pacific-hydrothermal-ventingOddly cool around Australia, and what is it that's so hot off the coast of South America?
Yeah...Australia's copping a bit of that too.Jet stream goes bonkers
The current map of the jet stream over the US is like nothing climate scientists have seen. The flow of air is fragmented to the degree that one professor called it “insane”. The unusual disjointed pattern is fueling a heat dome plaguing the south-central US and Mexico causing extreme temperatures and deaths. Top climate scientist Michael Mann said the planet-wide wacky jetstream is not only likely affected by global warming but the El Nino event is playing a role. Record low sea ice also messes up the flow. It’s not expected that the extreme temperatures will end soon but continue through the next month. This type of scary instability will be the new norm as the planet warms. https://www.sciencealert.com/earths...-a-van-gogh-right-now-and-thats-a-big-problem
So... the thing that's responsible for the hottest area of heat isn't man-made emissions?I don't know Myth, but googling came up with this: https://www.livescience.com/first-off-axis-pacific-hydrothermal-venting
As for Cool waters around Australia, when I was a school lad, we'd do a yearly Life Saving qualification event in September at the local Ocean Pool, and the Temp was always no higher than 17 degrees Celsius (62 F).
Quite brisk for a group of young teens I'd venture to say.
To be perfectly candid...So... the thing that's responsible for the hottest area of heat isn't man-made emissions?
Might there be a correlation between brain size and diet?climate change shrinks brains!
A new study suggests a link between past climate changes and a drop in the size of the human brain – an adaptive response that emerges in an analysis of climate records and human remains over a 50,000-year period.
The research by cognitive scientist Jeff Morgan Stibel from the Natural History Museum in California adds to our understanding of how humans develop and adapt in response to environmental stress.
"Given recent global warming trends, it is critical to understand the impact of climate change, if any, on human brain size and ultimately human behavior." Stibel writes in his published paper.
The study looked at how the brain size of 298 Homo specimens changed over the last 50,000 years in relation to natural records of global temperature, humidity, and rainfall. When the climate got warmer, the average brain size grew significantly smaller than when it was cooler.
Stibel's prior research on brain shrinkage prompted this investigation because he wanted to understand its root causes.
"Understanding how the brain has changed over time in hominins is critical but very little work has been done on this subject," Stibel told PsyPost's Mane Kara-Yakoubian.
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-paper-links-climate-change-to-shrinking-brain-size-in-humans
What methods are they going to use to determine this then?
*Hottest June on record - H'mmm, since when?
As a result of Milankovitch Cycles and various other factors.OK, so is this the earth just doing “ it’s thing “ and can’t be stopped no matter what ?
I have heard that the earth goes through warm and cold cycles.
To protect our crops, we should drastically lower CO2 levels?No blade of grass.
The risks of harvest failures in multiple global breadbaskets have been underestimated, according to a study Tuesday that researchers said should be a "wake up call" about the threat climate change poses to our food systems.
Food production is both a key source of planet-warming emissions and highly exposed to the effects of climate change, with climate and crop models used to figure out just what the impacts could be as the world warms.
In the new research published in Nature Communications, researchers in the United States and Germany looked at the likelihood that several major food producing regions could simultaneously suffer low yields.
These events can lead to price spikes, food insecurity and even civil unrest, said lead author Kai Kornhuber, a researcher at Columbia University and the German Council on Foreign Relations.
By "increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases, we are entering this uncharted water where we are struggling to really have an accurate idea of what type of extremes we're going to face," he told AFP.
Another example of muddled/contradictory thinking is this:To protect our crops, we should drastically lower CO2 levels?
Lower CO2 levels will kill off the crops... surely?
We're getting muddled/contradictory thinking coming through.
Crops were doing fine when the CO2 level in our atmosphere was 285 ppm, before industrialisation. The current level of CO2 is about 420 ppm. Lowering CO2 ppm from 420 back to 285 would not damage crops at all.To protect our crops, we should drastically lower CO2 levels?
Lower CO2 levels will kill off the crops... surely?
As if by magic, today this report/article appeared giving details of one such site in Porthmadog, Wales..As I have posited many, many times before, it's more to do with where the measurements are taken.
Well well - notalotofpeopleknowthat is yet another one-man blog, run by one Paul Homewood, a retired accountant withAs if by magic, today this report/article appeared giving details of one such site in Porthmadog, Wales..
"(...) The Met Office’s own rules are quite clear – that there should be no trees nearby that might influence the measurements."
"(...) they are happy to use a Class 4 site for climatological purposes, even though that class is next to junk status.
Class 4 makes no restrictions over vegetation, unlike the first three Classes; Class 1 for instance stipulates that vegetation should not exceed 10 cm (...)"
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/met-office-porthmadog/
“no professional qualifications or training in meteorology or climate”.
therefore they are not junk sites by definition