Sunday, February 08, 2009
A Svensmark thought
The disastrous weather of the last couple years, including two horrible winters here and the current Australian tragedy, has one basic cause. The problem is not too much heat or too much cold; rather it's too little movement. Each system stays locked in place for weeks or months, continuously dumping the same weather on the same area. Months of snow and ice here, months of dry heat there.
Okay, as a general rule, when do things move more? When they get more energy input. When do they move less? When they get less energy input. And what are we getting from the sun now? Less energy.
The Svensmark theory wouldn't put it quite so simply; what we're getting is not less input from the sun itself, but more overall cloud cover which means less solar energy reaching the surface. Result is the same. Less maximum heat means shallower gradients between max and min, thus less "push and pull" to move big systems around.
So the systems tend to stay in one place longer, which gives disastrous consequences in some places.
Polistra noted this problem several years ago (before the Svensmark theory was published) and begged NASA to work on a fix, to find some way of shoving a system out of a dangerous rut. Needless to say, NASA won't do it, because they are zealous fanatical wild-eyed supplicants of the Planet Goddess Gaia. They are too stupefied by Gaia to perceive facts or recognize valid theories. The only cure they can imagine is destroying the human species to eliminate CO2. ¶ 6:38 PM
Okay, as a general rule, when do things move more? When they get more energy input. When do they move less? When they get less energy input. And what are we getting from the sun now? Less energy.
The Svensmark theory wouldn't put it quite so simply; what we're getting is not less input from the sun itself, but more overall cloud cover which means less solar energy reaching the surface. Result is the same. Less maximum heat means shallower gradients between max and min, thus less "push and pull" to move big systems around.
So the systems tend to stay in one place longer, which gives disastrous consequences in some places.
Polistra noted this problem several years ago (before the Svensmark theory was published) and begged NASA to work on a fix, to find some way of shoving a system out of a dangerous rut. Needless to say, NASA won't do it, because they are zealous fanatical wild-eyed supplicants of the Planet Goddess Gaia. They are too stupefied by Gaia to perceive facts or recognize valid theories. The only cure they can imagine is destroying the human species to eliminate CO2. ¶ 6:38 PM
