Is this a case of ‘be careful what you wish for’? In a world of unproven climate assumptions masquerading as facts, the potential for unintended consequences is unlimited.
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Disappearing clouds are to blame for the “crazy” rise in ocean temperatures, scientists have warned.
A policy introduced in 2020 to cut the amount of sulphur emitted by ships resulted in an 80 per cent reduction of the element in the Earth’s atmosphere, says The Telegraph.
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) demanded that the sulphur content in fuel be cut from 3.5 per cent to 0.5 per cent for all vessels operating worldwide.
The policy resulted in fewer build-ups of the element in clouds and less cloud coverage overall.
But this has increased the warming effect of carbon emissions by 50 per cent, partly because the sun heats the seas more effectively when the skies are clearer. [Talkshop comment – those assumptions again].
On Tuesday, the average sea surface temperature reached 20.96C, the hottest it has ever been. [Talkshop comment – media psychobabble].
“This year it’s been crazy,” Tianle Yuan, an atmospheric physicist at Nasa, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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The experiment unintentionally engineered by the IMO rules is providing a rare opportunity for scientists to study a geoengineering scheme in action, although it is working in the wrong direction.
One strategy called “marine cloud brightening”, which would see ships inject particles back into the air to make clouds more reflective, could be used to slow global warming.
Mr Diamond even suggested additional particles could be introduced to the clouds to boost cloud density and in turn its reflective properties which would help reverse the current trend.
He claimed his study’s findings suggest humanity could cool the planet significantly by brightening clouds.
Tallbloke's Talkshop 
Naw, I’m no gonnae say it, am no!
Well someone has to SAY it: This must be the Silly Season – Rain ( at last – but too late to be of much use, and definitely no use for Harvest or Camping in the Cold) has cleared – Clouds disappeared – no water left in them – dehydrated ? Often happens around Sunset. Will be another cold night. Having to take Ginger and Palm plants in for the night again. June was too good to be true, getting them all off to a better start raising false hopes. Only thing Boiling here is the Kettle and Gramps… fizzin fae hearing all this trollop about the economy and climate.
Another possible factor…
Tonga volcano had highest plume ever recorded, new study confirms
‘Further science questions that we would like to understand are: Why did the Tonga plume go so high? What will be the climate impact of this eruption? And what exactly was the plume composed of?’
The study, ‘The January 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano reached the mesosphere’ has been published in the journal Science.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-11-04-tonga-volcano-had-highest-plume-ever-recorded-new-study-confirms
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Ron Clutz post here…
I find it amazing that they can measure the ocean temperature to a hundredth of a degree when reality says that a degree would be pushing it.
[…] Posted on August 6, 2023 by HiFast Disappearing clouds blamed for ‘crazy’ rise in ocean temperatures […]
Ivan, I’m betting that’s the result of calculating an average, then not adjusting for the accuracy of the original measurement.
Amazing how a lack of clouds causes warming – but only when it suits them.
And amazing how the lack of clouds suddenly increases temperatures dramatically rather than incrementally since 2003.
August 2nd, 2023 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
New Record High Temperatures and a Weird Month
July 2023 was an unusual month, with sudden warmth and a few record or near-record high temperatures.
Since the satellite record began in 1979, July 2023 was:
>> warmest July on record (global average)
>> warmest absolute temperature (since July is climatologically the warmest month)
tied with March 2016 for the 2nd warmest monthly anomaly (departure from normal for any month)
>> warmest Southern Hemisphere land anomaly
>> warmest July for tropical land (by a wide margin, +1.03 deg. C vs. +0.44 deg. C in 2017)
These results suggest something peculiar is going on. It’s too early for the developing El Nino in the Pacific to have much effect on the tropospheric temperature record. The Hunga Tonga sub-surface ocean volcano eruption and its “unprecedented” production of extra stratospheric water vapor could be to blame. There might be other record high temperatures regionally in the satellite data, but I don’t have time right now to investigate that. [bold added]
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/08/uah-global-temperature-update-for-july-2023-0-64-deg-c/
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Australia leads the charge with +1.43C departure from its 30-year July average (1991-2020) – see chart in link.
The Authorities taking measurements, eh? Sun. Morning news: Water pollution & Hailstones. BBC Weatherman says you only get so much Hail because of the extreme heat energy Rising…no word about the very cold air masses “up there”. As for the water – Sampling not taken from that area off Sunderland where many swimmers were taken ill, and on the Seine – so clean now for next year’s Olympics …. they had some issue as well. Cause & effect, or effect / Affect first, then go look for a suitable cause,, ( So the opening Ceremony + Water sports events will be guaranteed next year on the Seine ? )
Sunspot numbers exploding to more than predicted
Published: Jul. 18, 2023
https://www.mlive.com/weather/2023/07/sunspot-numbers-exploding-to-more-than-predicted.html
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Forecast of 2025 maximum looks suspect, nearly there now?
The Elephant in the room that the media are studiously ignoring…
“Readers may recall that we have reported on the massive amount of water vapor that has been injected into the stratosphere by the 2022 eruption of the Hunga-Tonga volcano. A recent study said a 13% increase in stratospheric water mass and a 5-fold increase of stratospheric aerosol load.
Water vapor is by far the strongest greenhouse gas according to NASA, and it stands to reason that the dramatic increase in stratospheric water vapor is having an effect on global temperature.
Water vapor is Earth’s most abundant greenhouse gas. It’s responsible for about half of Earth’s greenhouse effect — the process that occurs when gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap the Sun’s heat. ”
https://climate.nasa.gov/explore/ask-nasa-climate/3143/steamy-relationships-how-atmospheric-water-vapor-amplifies-earths-greenhouse-effect/
Jeremy – ‘it stands to reason that the dramatic increase in stratospheric water vapor is having an effect on global temperature.’
Maybe, but what reason?
Because water vapour, not CO2, is the prime heating agent in the atmosphere. So governments must forget about CO2, and concentrate on draining the oceans and all lakes to stop runaway Global Boiling, no?
The Hunga water vapour is in the stratosphere, not the troposphere. The link between the two seems uncertain at this stage, which leaves us with speculation.
Recent study:
As remote sensing techniques and satellite coverage of the stratosphere have been substantially improved in the XXI century, the wealth of observational data on the Hunga event together with various modelling approaches should provide a major
advance in understanding the impacts of stratospheric composition change on global climate.
Click to access Khaykin-Tonga-2022.pdf
So climate scientists should be able to run their models for June and July, reproduce the ocean and land temperatures observed, and specify and quantify the factors that changed and account for the change, or am I expecting to much?
Note Hunga-Tonga mega-eruption was 18 months ago.
Aye, 18 months ago already, Resonance / Oscillation, but of what exactly? Energy in which form converted to ? Don’t want to ask AI, but gurgle gives me different results.
From Prof. Harald Yndestad’s Climate Clock website/papers (via Google translate)…
Next solar-driven minimum sea temperature
A gradual reduction of radiation over a period of approx. 50 years, will have a direct impact on global land-based surface temperature [4]. At the same time, accumulated heated heat in the ocean will lead to a delay in global warming of the ocean. The rate of cooling of the ocean is greatest when radiation from the sun has a deep minimum. This causes the sea temperature to reach a maximum of approx. year 2025, radiation from the sun enters a negative period. The ocean then cools gradually over a period of 50 years, to a deep minimum approx. year 2075. The overall period, with solar-driven deep minimum sea temperature, includes the years from approx. 2050-2100. The Little Ice Age did not end in the 19th century. We can expect that there will be several cold climate periods, within a total time period of 4450 years [4]. [bold added]
‘https://www.climateclock.no/2022/10/tsi-variasjoner/
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Will the approaching El Niño be the last one before the predicted slowdown?
According to Yndestad (conclusion 2):
Atmospheric CO2 variations have a maximum growth rate when global sea surface
temperature variations have a maximum state. The p/2 (rad) phase lag between global sea temperature variations and atmospheric CO2 variations, reveals that atmospheric CO2 variations are controlled by global sea temperature variations. [bold added]
Click to access Yndestad-2022-Lunar-Forced-CO2-Variability.pdf
Baffled scientists update…
AUGUST 9, 2023
Scientists look beyond climate change and El Nino for other factors that heat up Earth
One surprising source of added warmth could be cleaner air resulting from new shipping rules. Another possible cause is 165 million tons (150 million metric tons) of water spewed into the atmosphere by a volcano. Both ideas are under investigation.
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-scientists-climate-el-nino-factors.html
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Send ideas to IPCC baffled scientist department. No frivolity please 😎
No mention of the sun.
Shall we tell them?
The article answers the question if they want it to:
‘the sun heats the seas more effectively when the skies are clearer’.