At 12pm, 97 fires are burning across NSW with 43 yet to be contained. With high temperatures and strong winds forecast for today and tomorrow, visibility is yet again low across some firegrounds. Talk to your family and friends about what your plan will be if threatened by fire. pic.twitter.com/dpmAESdWwd
— NSW RFS (@NSWRFS) December 30, 2019
Video from New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
What’s called “global warming” (the surface-air only part of the warming) has been reduced in rate of increase vis a vis model expectations simply because the tropical Pacific Ocean easterly trade winds started having higher average speed at 1995 AD due to a warming tropical Atlantic Ocean surface due to the global warming. Where the winds of tropical Pacific Ocean & tropical Atlantic Ocean interact over South America the tropical Atlantic Ocean wind has given the tropical Pacific Ocean a “boost”. The speed started increasing in 1995 AD and last data I saw from a few years ago the wind speed had increased by 1 m/s (a 30% increase). It’s had several definite effects since then and some likely:
– Actual “global warming” is 0.11 degrees less than model global warming because the WG1 climate scientists didn’t replicate that Pacific Ocean – Atlantic Ocean wind coupling effect in the CMIP models. I don’t know whether they’ve corrected that,
– Caused the “pause” or “hiatus” (that’s why global warming” is 0.11 degrees less than in models).,
– Huge 1997/98 El Nino started soon after 1995 AD
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– Oceans started warming twice as fast as before ~1998 AD
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– Southern westerlies strengthened & tightened on Antarctica soon after,
– Perhaps why Australia is getting more drought & higher temperatures (I say that only because Australia is right there where the ENSO action is),
– Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) mass loss took a huge rate increase in 2000 AD per Jason Box graph,
– Global Mean Surface Temperature (GMST) has been increasing ~+0.23 degrees / decade for El Nino years by only +0.165 degrees / decade for La Nina & ENSO-neutral years.
All soon after 1995 AD
Too few people recognize the importance of the heat buildup in the oceans.
Ah, good: It’s from an official drone. Part of the problem with fighting fires in California were private drones interfering with aerial firefighters.
The coal boosters that run the Australian governments are trying to down play the issue of fires. How just agreed to massive new coal mines.