It turns out that ‘Until now the models that climate change scientists used to gauge heat loss were based on theories rather than real observations’. In other words, little or no data from the polar regions, so claims of Earth ‘overheating’ are lacking vital information. SciTech Daily says: ‘The PREFIRE CubeSats use advances in spectrometry to measure processes associated with ice melt and formation, snow melt and accumulation, and changes in cloud cover.’
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A tiny NASA satellite was launched Saturday from New Zealand with the mission of improving climate change prediction by measuring heat escaping from Earth’s poles for the first time, says Phys.org.
“This new information—and we’ve never had it before—will improve our ability to model what’s happening in the poles, what’s happening in climate,” NASA’s earth sciences research director Karen St. Germain told a recent news conference.
The satellite, which is the size of a shoe box, was launched by an Electron rocket, built by a company called Rocket Lab, which lifted off from Mahia in the north of New Zealand. The overall mission is called PREFIRE.
The company is later to launch a similar satellite of its own.
They will serve to take infrared measurements far above the Arctic and Antarctic so as to measure directly the heat that the poles release into space.
“This is critical because it actually helps to balance the excess heat that’s received in the tropical regions and really regulate the earth’s temperature,” said Tristan L’Ecuyer, a mission researcher affiliated with the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“And the process of getting the heat from the tropical regions to the polar regions is actually what drives all of our weather around the planet,” he added.
With PREFIRE, NASA aims to understand how clouds, humidity or the melting of ice into water affects this heat loss from the poles.
Until now the models that climate change scientists used to gauge heat loss were based on theories rather than real observations, said L’Ecuyer.
“Hopefully we’ll be able to improve our ability to simulate what sea level rise might look like in the future and also how the polar climate change is going to affect the weather systems around the planet,” he added.
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How Earth sheds heat into space
New insights into the role of water vapor may help researchers predict how the planet will respond to warming.
MIT News, Date: September 24, 2018
Since the 1950s, scientists have observed a surprisingly straightforward, linear relationship between the Earth’s surface temperature and its outgoing heat.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/24/1809868115
No polar mystery then? Maybe the catch is that there’s little water vapour near the poles as ice doesn’t evaporate.
This was written:
“This new information—and we’ve never had it before—will improve our ability to model what’s happening in the poles, what’s happening in climate,” NASA’s earth sciences research director Karen St. Germain told a recent news conference.
Wait, Think, “This new information—and we’ve never had it before”, they have been telling us 97% of scientists already knew everything about climate change and energy balance.
Oldbrew wrote:
Maybe the catch is that there’s little water vapour near the poles as ice doesn’t evaporate
The ice cools the climate as ice is pushed into turbulent salt-water currents. There was much water vapor from evaporating polar oceans or there would not be much ice in and around polar regions. That IR out did no or very little immediate cooling, it was involved in the changing of water vapor to ice, mostly in warmest times when polar oceans were thawed and evaporation and snowfall was even possible. Warm times are when the sequestered ice grows in volume and weight.
Years after the peak of every warm period with increasing sequestered ice, the ice spreads reflecting more and thawing more and ice gets pushed into the salt-water, chilling ocean currents to below freezing temperatures, this continues forming sea ice and turning the ice machines off until the land ice is depleted.
If they are honest, these new CubeSats will measure IR out from the forming of ice. Someday, someone will try to honestly calculate how much cooling of the oceans is caused by thawing ice.
In our machines, we transport energy to cold places to radiate it out and in our machines we frequently use materials that change state, so should and so does the climate systems. Water in all of its states is abundant, we use water and ice for cooling, the climate systems use water, water vapor and ice for cooling. This is not even studied, not in energy balance charts, rather, they pick something that does not have enough mass to measure compared to water in all its states.
Reducing IR out with CO2 or anything is supposed to warm the climate.
Yet, we know that warmest times have the most IR out, how can more IR out not make the climate coldest then.
We know that coldest time have the least IR out, how can less IR out not make the climate warmest then.
In warmest times, that IR out that is not cooling the climate is forming the sequestered ice.
In coldest times, too little IR out is supplemented by thawing and reflecting ice.
Coldest times were times with least IR out and were times with most ice extent cooling by thawing and reflecting and times with least ocean to gain energy from the sun.
Warmest times were times with most IR out and were times with least ice extent cooling by thawing and reflecting and times with most ocean to gain energy from the sun.
These powerful factors are not considered as contributing causes of any climate change.
This was written:
‘The PREFIRE CubeSats use advances in spectrometry to measure processes associated with ice melt and formation, snow melt and accumulation, and changes in cloud cover.’
Ice melts at 32 degrees F, ice pushed into turbulent salt water thaws at much colder temperatures, as in ice cream makers. This amazing cooling is not considered in climate models or theory or energy balance.
We know that Antarctic ice has increased for millions of years, yet the oldest ice in ice core records is only 800 thousand years old and that oldest ice layer is the thinnest because most of that layer has thawed and caused cooling of the climate system. They say that forming ice and thawing ice is inside the greenhouse umbrella and can be ignored. It cannot be ignored because the IR out that forms the ice is in warmest years and the max cooling form thawing ice is in coldest years. This is dynamic stability, not static stability.
In warmest times, IR out is more than Solar in – Albedo.
In coldest times, IR out is less than Solar in – Albedo.
IR out that forms multi-year ice and cooling by thawing of multi-year ice must be considered because they occur at maximums that are years apart.
Well that would be the reasonably linear increase in water vapour transfer to the tropopause that changes by 7% per degree over a wide range of temperature and RHI, and the same, surprisingly, from the S-B effect which is 3.3W/M^2 per degree over several degrees, even with the fourth power of T, because its temperature basis is absolute>
I dun a table for my book. Only problem with this is when it gets to 30 deg ocean SST, evaporation saturates and can’t evaporate any more…. but it doesn’t get hotter…..does it start a heat-losing circulation in the ocean? Probably why 50 deg North had Hippos in Honiton during the 3 Milankovitch cycles in phase Eeemian interglacial max. Why am I asking you? Hope this is useful:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/u3apy4gvify3szjrpz3t5/S-B-Table.png?rlkey=czddp3t1tg7hqtd8nyu30udxo&dl=0
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NASA mission flies over Arctic to study sea ice melt causes
It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the bumps and dips on the ice itself can play a role. To explore how these factors interact and impact sea ice melting, NASA is flying two aircraft equipped with scientific instruments over the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland this summer. The first flights of the field campaign, called ARCSIX (Arctic Radiation Cloud Aerosol Surface Interaction Experiment), successfully began taking measurements on May 28.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-nasa-mission-flies-arctic-sea.html
The mission’s science lead still says things like “as the Arctic transitions to a seasonally ice-free ocean”, even though sea ice in the region is stable in the last 10-15 years, while CO2 atmospheric levels have continued to rise.