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Post by account_disabled on Dec 31, 2023 4:10:26 GMT -5
Can we humans influence the likelihood of such intermittent instabilities Yes we can. By continuing to emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere thus warming and moistening the air we are tilting our nonlinear climate system towards greater intermittent instability. Perhaps one of the most devastating types of instability is associated with a tipping point for example associated with the disintegration of a large ice sheet leading to significant sealevel rise. In this situation we cannot undo the damage caused by simply reversing our emissions that would be locking the stable door after the horse has bolted. We have the ability to decrease the likelihood of these climatological instabilities by regulating the emission of greenhouse gases Mobile App Development Service But which actions will be the most effective In the s an idea was mooted to explode nuclear bombs in suitably targeted parts of the atmosphere to move hurricanes away from their predicted paths if they threatened populated regions To guide these decisions climate scientists try to model. The climate system and estimate how climate will change as future emissions scenarios. But there are uncertainties in these estimates not least arising from the effect of these emissions on internal atmospheric processes like cloud cover. Climate scientists try to take account of these uncertainties by running ensembles of climate models where say uncertain cloud processes are represented in different possible ways.
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