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Unusual Atlantic system.

5/12/2016

For some months the warm water of the Gulf stream has been pooling off the North East American coast around Maine, possibly held back by the cold water off the South East coast of Greenland. (The remnents of which can be seen in blue).
This warm water (in yellow) seems to have started to stream across the Atlantic towards Europe. The green marker records a temperature anomally 3.5C above normal for the region.

There also appears to be a huge weather system, which covers the whole central Atlantic, drawing cold air from Baffin Bay between Newfoundland and Greenland and mixing it with warm air drawn from the warmer latitudes of the Atlantic.
This extreme mixing of high sea surface temperatures and warm and cold winds in the same system could lead to a massive storm. Its early days yet but worth watching.

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Dennis Janicek link

11/12/2016 09:30:35 am

*CO2 is coming from Fossil Fuel*
«Global Warming Disbelievers» have said that no one has proven that the CO2 in the atmosphere was man-made (anthropogenic). Now, there is proof that *CO2 is coming from Fossil Fuel*. See:

*Human Fingerprints on the Atmosphere*
https://theconversation.com/forty-years-of-measuring-the-worlds-cleanest-air-reveals-human-fingerprints-on-the-atmosphere-68489

Forty years of measuring the world’s cleanest air at Cape Grim reveals _human fingerprints_ on the atmosphere, 2016. Since 2010 the rate has been 2.3 ppm CO₂ per year. The isotopic ratios of CO₂ measured at Cape Grim (Tasmania, Australia) have changed in a way that is consistent with fossil fuels being the source of higher concentrations.

The article's graph (https://62e528761d0685343e1c-f3d1b99a743ffa4142d9d7f1978d9686.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/files/145901/width754/image-20161114-5075-1iwk8am.png) shows the isotopic ratio, «δ¹³C», which is the normalized ratio of carbon 13 (¹³C) to carbon 12 (¹²C). Fossil fuels are depleted in ¹³C relative to the atmospheric carbon isotopes due to the «Suess Effect», because they were originally formed from living organisms. The graph shows the lowering of ¹³C due to burning fossil fuels. Non-man-made sources would have a different isotopic signature. See:

*Suess Effect*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suess_effect

With this it appears that cloud patterns are moving poleward (northward in the Northern Hemisphere) and perhaps this caused the Syrian Drought. Duck hunting season is being delayed here in Illinois. As in your article, regions of cold water in the ocean are moving poleward moving fishing regions and changing storm patterns. It is as fascinating as taking a nature walk in the Apocalypse.

Bob Bingham

12/12/2016 07:22:10 am

Thanks for your contribution Dennis. "Taking a walk in the Apocalypse" is very apt.

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