Unless you are part of the TM (transcendental meditation) crowd who seek to enlist the square-root of 1% of the population to pray (erh. meditate) for whirled peas, I'm not sure "worrying" helps much.
I'm sure it doesn't help in the sense of changing the reality. But I have children and grandchildren whom I care about and I worry regardless. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: steve smith <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Nov 19, 2024, 7:29 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Jet Stream To: Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> Frank - OBE and AMOC were the ones I didn't know. I am anything but a climate change denier. I worry about it every day. Now you have more ( AMOC ) to worry about ;^) Unless you are part of the TM (transcendental meditation) crowd who seek to enlist the square-root of 1% of the population to pray (erh. meditate) for whirled peas, I'm not sure "worrying" helps much. I guess meditation is roughly the opposite of "worrying"? <snarky TM anecdote>My MAGA sister/b-in-law get up at 3AM every Sunday to join their worldwide network of TM Sidhi folks... to "pray" for world peace and another round of Trump (so I guess it works!)</snark> After visiting Sweden/Denmark/Netherlands in 2019 as I was focusing (thanks Merle) yet more on climate change issues (I did a short stint late 90s with LANL proto-climate scientists), I imagined it would be a great immigration destination for folks with such inclination and option. As the AMOC issue became more evident to me the mild weather one experiences in northern Europe these days it doesn't seem like such a great plan. <snarky climate awareness anecdote> I paid the "carbon offset" tax for my flights but by any measure that trip burned my whole year's carbon budget... WTF? And I think it was 10 years of a 3rd worlder's typical consumption. WTF (what the frick-n-frack)? FWIW Greta was traveling from the US to Spain for that year's climate meeting on an electric-sailboat so I was double-shamed</snark> The Southern version SOOC (Southern Oceanic Overturn Current?) is apparently less fragile but if the Atlantic pattern falls into a new regime/phase, the jet stream will (at least) get much more variable which will make for (yet more) variable weather in the rest (other than Atlantic Seaboard) in North America. Like maybe this Bomb Cyclone event sneaking up on the PNW (Pacific NorthWest) about now... image how an "atmospheric river" of mulberry-paper incendiary baloons might get spun across North America with that? - Steve
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