Air travel could get a whole lot bumpier thanks to climate change

Johanna Wagstaffe explains how a phenomenon called wind shearing could keep you belted into your seats for longer on those long haul flights.

[ahadalangman]

really tell that to joosin nd his private jet oh no but you will not because you are 69% government funded

[jackgraceson]

this is so Interesting almost enough to make me care ☺️

[KT-hxul]

Climate has changed constantly. It really changed at the time of the world wide flood. Before that it didn't rain but the earth was watered by a mist. That's why it could support large animals like the dinosaurs. During the flood the earth moved and shifted, mountains were formed, valley created. This is where the fossil record came from along with buried trees that formed the coal deposits. As the water receded and evaporated, this brought strong cooling and formed the ice caps and glaciers. The earth has gradually warmed since then and we continue to see the change. The idea that the earth is static and man somehow messed it up is all wrong.

Read the bible and you will know the truth.
Jesus died and rose again so we can be forgiven and set free of all sin to live a new clean life here now and forever in Heaven.

[paladancray]

Just ask all the Dead Dinasaurs gotta’m! Eh!

[paladancray]

Oh oh the GREEN Y NUT CASES still trying to be RELEVANT! BUT like ZEEE BUGGS and NEEDLES all tied together ! “GRETA SYNDROME INTernational boozy man huh! Blame for everything ! The planets and Universe decides what happens in ole mah earth and out side ole Mah earth!

[OldScientist]

Globally the ACE index (accumulated cyclone energy) 1980-2021 shows no increasing trend. Global Hurricane Landfalls 1970-2021 (updated from Weinkle et al, 2012) shows no trend. Satellite data since 1980 shows a slight downward global trend for total hurricaine numbers with 2021 being a record low year. From the NOAA GFDL website 'Global Warming and Hurricanes, An Overview of Current Research' (dated Feb. 9, 2023). And I quote "We conclude that the historical Atlantic hurricane data at this stage do not provide compelling evidence for a substantial greenhouse warming-induced century-scale increase in: frequency of tropical storms, hurricanes, or major hurricanes, or in the proportion of hurricanes that become major hurricanes." Multidecadal variability in Atlantic hurricaines is most probably related to the AMO (Vecchi et al, 2021). NOAA data 1851-2021 shows no trend in number of hurricaine landfalls with the record high being 1886. It makes no difference if you look at the Pacific. Using data from the JMA 1951-2022 we see typhoon activity trending downwards for over 7 decades.
There is evidence cited in AR6 (IPCC) that Australia is experiencing the lowest frequency of tropical cyclones in the last 550 to 1, 500 years, and that windspeed overland throughout the Northern Hemisphere has been dropping in recent decades. Also the number of intense storms (below 960 mbars) in the Northern Atlantic has fallen sharply since 1990 (Tilinina et al, 2021).
What the data from NOAA SPC shows about tornados: EF1-EF5 (1954-2022) no trend; EF3-EF5 (most destructive) (1954-2022) 50% decline. No EF5s in US since 2013 (a record absence).
There has been no clear change in annual precipitation over the Earth's landmasses between 1850-2000 (Wijngaarden, 2015).
Drought appears to be decreasing globally (Watts et al, 2018) measured by SPI 1901-2017.
There are over 5 million excess deaths per annum globally due to abnormal temperatures from the 2000-2019 study led Prof. Guo of Monash University. It found that over 90% of excess deaths were caused by excess COLD rather than excess heat. So, in a world with increasingly mild temperatures, there will be less excess death. Warming is good not bad.
Deserts have shrunk considerably since the 1980's. The Sahara shrank by 12, 000km² per year 1984-2015(Liu & Xue, 2020). The Earth has greened by 15% or more in a human lifetime. "The greening of the planet over the last two decades represents an increase in leaf area on plants and trees equivalent to the area covered by all the Amazon rainforests. There are now more than two million square miles of extra green leaf area per year"(NASA, 2019). Global tree canopy cover increased by 2.24 million square kilometers (865, 000 square miles) between 1982 and 2016 (Nature, 2018). As well as human intervention, the reasons for this include forests expanding polewards aided by additional CO2 and a slight rise in temperature.
The Earth’s natural vegetation productivity actually increased 6% in 18 years (Nemani et al, 2003) with 42% of this increase coming from the Amazon rainforests.