Tuesday, January 10, 2017

rethinking what an Ice Age actually looks like

I'm having to reevaluate what an Ice Age actually looks like or would look like now.

Imagine a world with no ice at all at the north pole where the ice begins with Alaska Canada Siberia and so in this world the "North Pole" kinds of weather actually begins with the land masses at the north of the world and then goes down to say Flagstaff, Albuquerque, North Texas and maybe North Carolina.

This is what I'm having to imagine given all the new facts about climate change we are presently dealing with here on earth.

People think global warming is just a melting of the ice cap at the north and ice at the south pole.

But, I'm realizing this isn't accurate.

What is likely more accurate is that as waters warm up the land cools down from clouds so you could have very warm water (relatively speaking with no ice) at the north pole but also have an Ice age over land covering most of north America, Russia, Siberia, Canada, Alaska etc. and Even China and most of Europe could be covered by Ice and snow year around too.

I'm not sure what happens to places like Greenland in all this but maybe Greenland gets recovered over with ice too.

There are a few constants in this scenario and hopefully climate scientists are looking at and developing computerized models for us to better survive all this if it actually happens.

Here appear to be the constants in the variable:

Warming ocean waters
Cooling land masses from more evaporation causing more clouds over landed areas
Winds increasing from warming water and air while the land cools from clouds

These are the constants that are increasing because of heat being absorbed into the now blue (no longer white from ice) oceans especially near the north pole.

The winds increasing are evident in the 173 mph wind gust at Squaw Valley and a constant 100 mph wind or more for more than an hour just this week.

So, at higher altitudes winds are increasing in almost exponential ways over time especially associated with Atmospheric Rivers that are becoming more and more common and bigger and stronger.

Because who could have predicted this winter being this strong after El Nino was a dud last year?

What I'm saying is we no longer have the handle on the weather we used to even with all our technology being more and more developed each year now.

Or, the truth is being withheld from us by governments and universities because it would panic too many people worldwide.

I think this last statement is closer to the truth.

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