New study in Antarctica indicates on-going man-made changes in the weather

A few weeks ago, the website Phys dot org published more research by British scientists confirming that snow-fall over Antarctica has increased significantly during the past century.

It’s been common knowledge for the past decade that snow and ice mass is disappearing in the Arctic but scientists seem puzzled at the increase over Antarctica. But the obvious explanation is that moisture in the air from the warming northern hemisphere is moving with high-altitude jet streams in the stratosphere and eventually descending in the wind currents of the colder southern hemisphere (rather than the Arctic) where it turns into snow. However there’s more to this than meets the eyes of these puzzled scientists: Production of snow has also been artificially increased by the increase in jet aircraft travel during the past half century. Steam and Carbon Dioxide from jet engine exhausts enhance the formation of high altitude clouds which screen sunlight from reaching the earth, thus slightly counter-acting global warming. People who believe Donald trump then conclude that man-made global warming is a hoax, but they are wrong.

Jet engine exhaust gases add steam and Carbon Dioxide to the stratosphere where these gases move with high-altitude jet streams, eventually reaching the Antarctic, descending and turning into snow. Although quantities of steam and Carbon Dioxide contributed by jet engines are very small at any moment in time compared with naturally occurring atmospheric steam and Carbon Dioxide, for half a century, billions of tons of man-made quantities have been continuously deposited mostly in the stratosphere. What goes up must come down and it all comes down in the same, coldest part of the earth, namely on Antarctica.

Atmospheric concentrations of Methane and Carbon Dioxide have been increasing constantly for at least 70 years, without a doubt. More greenhouse gases allow the atmosphere to trap more thermal energy during the day and release thermal energy more slowly during the night. More greenhouse gases provide more thermal capacity in the atmosphere for facilitating the ability of moisture (as steam) to travel for longer and further than before in the interacting wind and jet-stream systems. More moisture is going up from the warmer regions of the northern hemisphere but average annual rainfall has not increased much if any. Because the atmosphere is a closed system, more moisture going up in some places must come down somewhere else. Increased thermal capacity and energy means that steam is more effectively trapped in the atmosphere which prevents an increase in annual precipitation in all parts of the earth except in the coldest regions, namely the South Pole. Ocean currents under the North Pole provide a moderating effect on temperature variability. In contrast, the South Pole is a continent where the freeze is virtually permanent. This coldest part of the earth acts like a moisture trap

more successfully than at the North Pole and so moisture in the atmosphere, both naturally occurring and from jet engines, precipitates and accumulates as snow or sleet in the south.

Atmospheric greenhouse gas levels have been increasing in proportion with growth in global population, corresponding with unstoppable increase in energy use and corresponding with undeniable increases in pollution. These trends all correlate perfectly so it’s almost certain that the human factor will eventually be recognized as the cause of the observed changes in the polar regions. A definite irreversible change is taking place and soon the North Pole will lose most of its ice as a result of rising greenhouse gas levels. Then the northern hemisphere will really experience global warming like never before, while the south will lag behind the temperature trend probably by several years. But then it will probably be too late to reverse the changes.