Energy and Environmental Review

Some brane exercise for y’all:

This being the Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitiness, The Mind went wandering off as it does on the subject of humidity, dew point and Lapse Rate.
Because out here on The Fen, things could hardly get any fruitier or mistier at times, especially early mornings and if you keep eyes open, some rather odd things are seen to happen.

This is also borne of (virtually) visiting myriad Wunderground stations, when I always check their stated height above sea level = I don’t think any two on this whole Earth are at the same elevation.
That must surely apply to ‘proper’ Climate Stations.

My best so far Theory of Climate Everything is that the observed temperature changes are due to Katabatic Heating – there is no ‘Trapped Heat’ and hence no requirement to violate Entropy.
Katabatic Heating is dependant in turn upon the water content of any given landscape – esp whether there is any water there that the landscape can use to deflect such heating.

BUT but but, water content of a landscape will affect the Dew Point temperatures as recorded by the weather stations and significantly alter the Lapse Rate for the air above the landscape and hence the dry bulb temperatures recorded by stations at varying altitudes.

Example. We imagine a humidity situation where the Lapse Rate is 8°C per km.
Thus a station at 0 metres AMSL may record 10°C and under calm settled conditions, a station at 200metres will record 8.4°C.
Another station at say 600metres will record 5.2°C

Thus, if we calculate our Global Average Temperature from those 3 stations, we get an average of: 7.866°C (Remember that number)

OK: Enquiring mind then asks, what would happen if Global Humidity was affected by Climate Weirding Changing Warming Change?
CasstiusIronClaptron has plenty to say about it so we might assume it is changing, esp if temps are.

So, have Dew Points been changing these last, 20, 50 100 years?

This guy here most assuredly tells us they have: (in the Upper Mid West)
https://meteor.geol.iastate.edu/~jwartman/portfolio/Thesiscolor.html

….and he asserts that Dew Points are rising over the last 40 years.

What that means is that there is now more water vapour in the air than there was way-back-when and from that we can only conclude that Lapse Rate must be decreasing.

So, let’s take that back to our 3 stations but now we use a Lapse Rate of 7°C per kilometre instead of 8°C per kilometre previously
With nothing else changed, the stations will thus have temps of:
#1 (sea level) = 10°C
#2 (200metres) = 8.6°C
#3 (600metres) = 5.8°C
And so their new average is 8.133°C
Now: properly recall the old result we got (7.866°C)

We got a substantial temperature rise all without doing anything bar adding a little water vapour to the atmosphere, ##
 
Does anyone see ‘a problem’ with station siting and more especially, how, if at all, has it been (I shouldn’t use this word) adjusted for?
 
Why the link I found was so delicious is that was all to do with places that grow, (previously didn’t grow) simply gobsmacking acreages of Maize.
A notable problem endured by folks living anywhere near that stuff when it’s growing at full chat, is that it ‘sweats’ = it creates unbearable humidity issues for its neighbours.

Neat huh.The Solution to Climate Change is what’s casing it.

I imagine there’s No Possibility that maize-growing (and wheat, barley, beans, soya, cotton, rice) prior to this discovery also caused the climate to change.

## He is talking ‘little’ amount of water
He works it out as a change in precipitable water content of the atmosphere of about 0.4mm per 100 years