[FRIAM] Fwd: The Jet Stream

[Frank Wimberly]

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

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From: steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 19, 2024, 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Jet Stream
To: Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>


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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