Abstract
This work focuses on the two aspects of climate change, global warming and the increasing incidence and strength of catastrophic weather. The objective of this research is to consider the driver(s) of these aspects of climate change and whether the rate of increase of either or both can be limited and whether the increases in either or both can be reversed. This research was undertaken because of the damages caused and the monumental threat posed by global warming and the tenfold increase in the devastation wrought by catastrophic weather since the seventies. The goal of this work is to add to the teachings on climate change. NOAA global land and sea temperature, global humidity and land precipitation records, satellite measurements of the moisture content of the atmosphere and data on the global impact of catastrophic weather since the seventies were analyzed in accordance with the laws of thermodynamics. The research shows that water vapor, the primary greenhouse gas, is a key contributor to global warming drives evaporation and the increasing moisture content of the atmosphere. This is validated by the match to the historic data. The physics indicate that the recent historic global mismatch between evaporation and precipitation, the resulting increases in the concentration of water vapor and the effects of these increases, that the rate of increase in both global warming and catastrophic weather can be limited and if the rate of precipitation can be increased to exceed the evaporative rate, the effects of both can be reversed.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Water Vapor, Climate Change, Catastrophic Weather, Latent Heat, Existential Threat
