On the heels of the Roe v Wade overturning and the "frozen embryo's are kids" ruling by another GOP controlled court, the focus on the issues covered for a long time (since 2009) in this Dredd Blog series increases (Here Come De Conservative Judges, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10).
But we are not at the end of this phenomenon, instead there are indications that we are more likely at the beginnings of it:
"Contentious Supreme Court oral arguments this week offered a reminder that while the public focuses on the Donald Trump election cases, the court’s actions this spring will be equally consequential for an array of rules set in Washington governing American life.
Supreme Court conservatives are accelerating their moves to
overhaul the way the federal government protects Americans, whether from
air pollution or unfair financial practices.
Although the decisions won’t be released until later this year, the
frustration of liberal justices was palpable this week, as their sharp
remarks from the bench drew attention to the pattern of the right-wing
majority to diminish environmental, public health and consumer
safeguards."
The first video at the end of today's post indicates that the year 2023 was out of step to the point that the techniques used to make forecasts of future temperatures in our global climate failed.
A government scientist and two civilian scientists discuss the matter.
They also speculate a bit about what caused the unexpected and unusually large jump in global temperature.
Since the measurements presented in previous Dredd Blog posts indicate that the deepest ocean layer, the Hadopelagic, has warmed up to the point of being warmer than the ocean layer above it, the Abyssopelagic, I am going to offer a speculation (hypothesis) too.
I hypothesize or speculate that warmth (ocean heat - potential enthalpy) in the form of photons is being emitted from the oceans and/or atmospheric heat is not being absorbed as efficiently as it has been in the past because the oceans have reached a saturation point whereby they can no longer absorb and disperse visible-light photons or infrared photons as readily as they have been able to in the past.
Dr. Falkowski, in the second video below, makes a relevant observation:
Snapshot from 2nd video below
"[12:15] ... And if I took all that water on the surface, [12:20] it looks like a huge, huge, huge amount, but it's spread very, very thin. 4,000 meters is the average depth of the ocean. [12:28] If I take all of that water and I put it into one big ball, that's the volume of the ocean. [12:35] It's very small ..."
(video times in [brackets]). The ocean has been absorbing over 90% of the increasing heat from global warming that began circa the year 1750 when the industrial revolution began.
At some point in time the percentage of photons that have gone into the ocean makes it warmer than the air above it, so in accord with the second law of thermodynamics, that warmth will flow back out of the ocean and back into any cooler atmosphere above it at an increasing rate.
In other places it will merely slow down the absorption rate of flow from the atmosphere to the oceans.
This is a natural phenomenon that happens all the time, but what we are considering is the increasing amounts being radiated into the ocean and the decrease in capacity of absorption of atmospheric heat by the oceans.
Of course this is not a uniform phenomenon happening the same in every ocean, instead, each ocean is impacted in accord with its own ecosystem characteristics, i.e. the temperature of the air above it and the temperatures of its seawater.
If you care to read up on the concept of The Photon Current you can do so here on Dredd Blog: The Photon Current, 2, 3, 4.
The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.
other currents to, among other things, point out that the paper discussed in the previous post uses the data from a single piece of a puzzle that has hundreds of pieces (compare Fig. 1, Fig. 2, and Fig. 3).
The point I am making is that the grand pronouncements in that paper based on a model rather than on billions of in situWOD measurements was ill advised.
And it relied way too much on the advent of "fresh water" into the N. Atlantic due to glacial melt at tidewater glaciers on Greenland.
The fresh water phenomenon is only one part of the multipart fresh water ingress into the ocean surrounding Greenland, because among other things, when the glaciers melt they lose mass which means they lose gravitational power and that loss of gravitational power results in a falling sea level around Greenland.
Yes, that unmentionable portion of sea level change (sea level fall) also has a place in the equations.
As the ice sheet gravity diminishes as the ice quantity diminishes the water around Greenland flows somewhere else; i.e. toward the equator, just as it does at low tides also caused by variation of the gravity of the Moon.
Some of the fresh water from tidewater glacier melt also flows away from that area.
