Guest essay by Eric Worrall
You’ve got to hand it to Climate Alarmists – when they want to reach for an excuse for why the world is failing to warm, they don’t have far to reach.
Ozone recovery is offsetting Southern Hemisphere climate change trends in summer
By Tyne Logan
If the latest climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made anything clear, it was that much more needs to be done to reverse the impacts of climate change.
Key points:
- The IPCC says ozone recovery is counteracting some emission impacts
- It is influencing a major climate driver called the Southern Annular Mode
- Storm tracks were moving away from Australia but the trend is weakening
But buried in the 1,000-page document of mostly alarming reading there was one positive gem.
Our action in reducing ozone depletion is, in the short term, offsetting some of the impacts greenhouse gases are having on summer rainfall systems in the Southern Hemisphere.
What does that mean?
It’s all to do with a major climate driver known as the Southern Annular Mode (SAM), a belt of strong westerly winds linked to rainfall in the Southern Hemisphere.
The SAM’s position — either moving further north or south — can influence which latitudes see the impacts of storm systems and cold fronts, and can also have an influence on temperature.
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The ABC also provided a link to this helpful explanatory video;
Of course, this latest excuse is only a temporary reprieve. Unless we mend our wicked ways, we shall experience the full force of Gaea’s displeasure. Or at the very least, we shall be treated to yet another entertaining excuse, for why the world has “temporarily” failed to warm at the rate predicted by climate alarmists.
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” why the world has “temporarily” failed to warm at the rate predicted by climate alarmists.”
So why did they fail to predict the influence of the SAM?
Could it be that they have no idea what the hell is going on? Could it be that they really couldn’t predict what they will have for lunch?
I’ve been saying for 10y that the late 20th c. warming was largely due to volcanic eruptions destroying stratospheric ozone and making it less opaque to incoming radiation.
This was falsely attributed to CFCs , the UN’s first attempt at global political control.
You need to have ozone depletion before you can have ozone recovery.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/12/27/the-hole-in-the-sky/
That all makes no sense. How can AGW CC be offset by a recovery of the SAM due to ozone ?. Obviously they were wrong to assume that warming was from CO2 in the first place and rather than admit being wrong they come up with logic that is up there with the stuff peddled by dementia Joe.
Maybe the wetter weather is caused by some Solar System Alt Annular Multi Mode force that cycles in eons or epochs, I don’t really know since I haven’t been around long enough to see.
Wetter weather could well be caused by people, like I saw in results of silver iodide in the air back in the 1970s.
I’m in Australia too so will see if models or forecasts will say when wetter weather will start with a record early tropical wet season in a few months.
Lets get back to R14 refrigerants! Lots cheaper and a lot more efficient, and the patents have expired!