Grassroots Joe

"For the first time, the WMO formally tracked the growing gap between incoming solar radiation and the heat the Earth can radiate back into space. That gap — driven overwhelmingly by fossil fuel emissions — is accelerating."

'Why is this such a big deal?' you might ask. Please permit this one-time high school Physics teacher to ...

U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization says in its State of the Global Climate Report that our situation really, really sucks
https://www.unchartedblue.com/u-n-s-world-meteorological-organization-says-in-its-state-of-the-global-climate-report-that-our-situation-really-really-sucks/

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U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization says in its State of the Global Climate Report that our situation really, really sucks

UN Secretary-General António Guterres: "Humanity has just endured the 11 hottest years on record. When history repeats itself 11 times, it is no longer a coincidence. It is a call to act."

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Apr 3 at 11:45pmWeb
Show threadGrassroots Joe1d ago

provide what I think is a simple and clear explanation.

Before I do this, I need you to take just over a minute to watch this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XggxeuFDaDU.

The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is a truly classic example of what happens when you pump ever more energy into an oscillating system.

The Earth's weather and the climate it is intimately tied to is an oscillating system, granted a very complex system. As the quote at the top of this brief🧵 indicates, ...

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Tacoma Bridge Collapse: The Wobbliest Bridge in the World? (1940) | British Pathé

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Show threadGrassroots Joe1d ago

because of the burning of fossil fuels we are now pumping an ever increasing amount of energy into that oscillating system.

What that means is higher high pressure weather systems and lower low pressure systems with bigger gradients between them driving higher winds and ever bigger storms.

That means more property damage, more lost lives, more crop losses, and on and on. This is the inevitable result of the Physics. No ifs, ands or buts.

The cost of not ...

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Show threadGrassroots Joe1d ago

rapidly ending the rule of fossil fuels, replacing them with renewable energy and addressing all of the sources of greenhouse gasses will all too quickly swamp the cost of doing so. Far better to tackle the challenge than not.

PS For those of you with some Physics knowledge, yes, I left out the details of resonance and the role it plays in driven oscillation, but the basics of driven oscillating systems still holds. If you have any doubt just look at the climate data.

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Show threadPaul Healey12h ago
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