Special to Climate Depot
By Meteorologist Joe Bastardi
I have been working with Dr Arthur Viterito over the past few years in an alliance that combines what I am observing in having to forecast the weather on a global scale every day and what he is gathering from what may be a significant cause of warming that is being observed.
I have found a great deal of resistance to this from both sides of the climate issue. I make no claim that I have to be right about this. All I am trying to do is make sure there is also a public place where you can see this and perhaps at least wonder about it. It’s not like “outrageous” ideas in many things have not, with time, been shown to be true, Given the natural resistance from those wishing to push the climate catastrophe issue, which is directly in line with a whole litany of issues they have deceived the public on in other matters: (Just a few examples: Russian Collusion, Hunter Biden laptop, Biden’s mental acuity, Covid, Social media censorship to impact an election. Feel free to add to the list), so if we find out this has merit it would join the list.
It is huge because it does put an end to the idea that man-made impacts on climate are the driver ( tho there are other reasons to believe they are not). And, of course, some of the resistance from my side is if it ends the debate, no more books, arguments, or being able to claim you were the reason this was discovered. But all I am doing is trying to make sure, despite the vitriol that is hurled our way, that I keep you updated on this.
Dr Viterito writes:
As I reported a short while ago, the preliminary data from the Global Centroid Moment Catalogue (GCMT “Quick Catalogue”) are showing a sharp downturn in mid-ocean seismic activity for this year (1/1 through 4/13). As I’ve also discussed, less mid-ocean seismic activity indicates less-intense geothermal flux along mid-ocean ridges and rises, and this should cause the thermohaline circulation to weaken. In turn, thermohaline weakening results in the following:
– Reduced heat storage in the Indo-Pacific and Western Atlantic Warm Pools,
– Weakened western boundary currents
– Reduced heat flow into the Arctic, diminishing the Arctic Amplification.
We are starting to see signs of these phenomena unfolding. As for the Info-Pacific Warm Pool, the most recent maps from Climate Reanalyzer (slide 1 in the attached PowerPoint) and NOAA’s Operational Forecast maps (slide 2) clearly show a decline in SSTs.
(Graphics are from ClimatereAnalyzer.org, NOAA and the DMI (Danish Meterological Institute)
These two warm pools serve as “capacitors” for the Kuroshio (North Central Pacific) and Gulf Stream Currents (North Atlantic), and we see significant temperature declines for each of these currents (slides 4 through 6). The Greenland Current is also showing signs of cooling (slide 7).
Indirect evidence of a reduced Artic Amplification can be seen in the snow cover graph for Greenland (slide 8). Here we see a trend towards greater snow cover, commencing with a noticeable jump in January of this year.
Although VERY early in the cycle, these events have all the earmarks of an inflection point. If the trend continues, I have a feeling that 2025 may be a watershed moment in recent climate history.
Right or wrong, I applaud our subscriber base’s patience with me putting this on despite what has been vitriolic pushback in some circles, even from my side of the AGW debate. It’s not like we have not seen that in other matters, Climate, etc, and with time, the truth comes out.
So, dear reader, we may be approaching the time over the next decade when the test of the idea gives us an answer. I do not know how someone truly looking for the answer would be opposed to that unless they had other motives.
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