Bread and Circuses on Nostr: Earth's climate system is breaking down. You and I and everyone else are now living ...
Earth's climate system is breaking down. You and I and everyone else are now living in a world unlike any human has ever previously experienced...
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The currents of air that wrap around our planet are becoming unrecognizable to climate scientists.
The southern part of the jet stream over North America has completely broken apart and is currently trapped in a vicious revolution that has triggered an off-the-chart heat wave.
While it's normal for the air currents to stop, split apart, recombine and flow in opposite directions, on average these tropospheric air streams are typically quite continuous over long distances with an overall west to east flow.
But the current fragmentation is unlike anything specialists have seen before.
"When I look at this jet stream the word insane comes to mind," says meteorologist Jeff Berardelli. "This configuration, likely enhanced by climate heating, is fueling a record heat dome so extreme that even experts are astonished!"
What's more, because of El Niño, the paths of these jet streams have also changed latitude, exposing the southern regions of the US to the heat dome.
In the United States alone, 40 million people are currently under high heat alert, and in the last week, there have been widespread power outages.
The center of the heat dome sits over Mexico and has already caused a mass death of birds.
Climatologist Maximiliano Herrera has said that the heat wave in some parts of Mexico is like a "category 7". Category 5 is the highest actual ranking on the heat index scale, defined as "beyond extreme" heat.
Herrera is essentially arguing we're now beyond previous extremes.
"It's simply something in its own league, nothing like this even can attempt to compare," Herrera said.
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🚨 We are in a climate emergency. 🚨
FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-jet-streams-look-as-chaotic-as-a-van-gogh-right-now-and-thats-a-big-problem
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
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The currents of air that wrap around our planet are becoming unrecognizable to climate scientists.
The southern part of the jet stream over North America has completely broken apart and is currently trapped in a vicious revolution that has triggered an off-the-chart heat wave.
While it's normal for the air currents to stop, split apart, recombine and flow in opposite directions, on average these tropospheric air streams are typically quite continuous over long distances with an overall west to east flow.
But the current fragmentation is unlike anything specialists have seen before.
"When I look at this jet stream the word insane comes to mind," says meteorologist Jeff Berardelli. "This configuration, likely enhanced by climate heating, is fueling a record heat dome so extreme that even experts are astonished!"
What's more, because of El Niño, the paths of these jet streams have also changed latitude, exposing the southern regions of the US to the heat dome.
In the United States alone, 40 million people are currently under high heat alert, and in the last week, there have been widespread power outages.
The center of the heat dome sits over Mexico and has already caused a mass death of birds.
Climatologist Maximiliano Herrera has said that the heat wave in some parts of Mexico is like a "category 7". Category 5 is the highest actual ranking on the heat index scale, defined as "beyond extreme" heat.
Herrera is essentially arguing we're now beyond previous extremes.
"It's simply something in its own league, nothing like this even can attempt to compare," Herrera said.
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🚨 We are in a climate emergency. 🚨
FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-jet-streams-look-as-chaotic-as-a-van-gogh-right-now-and-thats-a-big-problem
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency