By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 24, 2014
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“Scientists say man-made climate change has fundamentally altered the currents of the vast, deep oceans where investigators are currently scouring for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, setting a complex stage for the ongoing search for MH370. If the Boeing 777 did plunge into the ocean somewhere in the vicinity of where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean, the location where its debris finally ends up, if found at all, may be vastly different from where investigators could have anticipated 30 years ago.”Lots of things change in 30 years, but none of it from man-made global warming. Earth to Mother Jones: Man-made global warming meisters led by got-rich-from-global-warming alarmist Al Gore in 2006 predicted that we had 10 years “before the earth cooks”, in spite of its 70 percent coverage by oceans and seas. Surely even Mother Jones has heard of the ‘Roaring 40s’, the ‘Furious 50s’ and ‘Screaming 60s’? These are all long-time latitudes notorious especially to mariners for extremely rough and dangerous seas, due to the frequent storms that develop at these latitudes. God created one and all and not Global Warming. “The search of 8,880 square miles of ocean has yet to turn up signs of the missing flight, says Mother Jones.
“Even if the fragments captured in satellite images are identified as being part of the jet, which Malaysian officials say deliberately flew off course on March 8, investigators coordinated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority will still have an enormous task to locate remaining parts of the plane and its flight recorders. Among the assets deployed in the search—including a multinational array of military and civil naval resources—are data modelers, whose task will be reconciling regional air and water currents with local weather patterns to produce a possible debris field. "Data marker buoys" are being dropped into the ocean to assist in providing "information about water movement to assist in drift modeling," John Young from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority told a press conference in Canberra on Thursday.”What’s that got to do with Global Warming? Everything if you’re an environmental activist who subscribes to “man-made anthropogenics”, who try to hold so-called Global Deniers at bay with continuing threats of having them imprisoned. Weather is weather no matter what kind of zippy name you slap on it. Mother Earth has always been plagued by polar vortexes, super storms, derechos, et al. (no pun intended). “While longer-term climate shifts are unlikely to play into day-to-day search and rescue efforts, these large climate-affected currents—among them the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the world's most powerful ocean system—are an essential factor in oceanographers' understanding of the literal undercurrents of search operations,” says Mother Jones.
“According to interviews with three climate scientists who specialize in the region of the world where investigators are focusing their search, the winds of the Southern Indian Ocean bordering the Southern Ocean have been shifting southwards and intensifying over the last 20 to 30 years, in part due to a warming atmosphere and the hole in the ozone layer. Ocean currents are also tightening around Antarctica, shifting whole climate systems towards the South Pole. "Both the ozone hole and greenhouse gases are working together to change the winds over the Southern Ocean." “Two currents impact this area of the ocean: the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which races almost unbridled around the bottom of the world, and the Indian Ocean Gyre, which swirls around the outskirts of the Indian Ocean, including up the west coast of Australia. The potential plane debris spotted via satellite is in "this sort of boundary between the circumpolar current and the gyre; both of those currents are shifting south," says Steven Rintoul, an expert on the southern oceans with Australia's foremost scientific research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) , in Hobart. "And it looks like that's largely due to human activities, but not just greenhouse gases. Both the ozone hole and greenhouse gases are working together to change the winds over the Southern Ocean."And just to think we thought CNN’s contention that Flight 370 fell into a black hole was crazy.
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