In our human experience the reality (value) of the whole is felt
at the pole of primary perception.
There's relatively much water vapor in the tropics, much less in deserts, and orders of magnitude less
at the poles in winter.
In fact, we may have already passed a critical tipping point as evidenced by ice
melt at the poles.
In the negative phase the pressure is not as
low at the pole and not as high at middle latitudes.
Whilst cold water can sink as its density increases, say as it is
cooled at the poles, warm water can not do this.
It could have been blown into space by the solar wind or frozen in the dry ice
caps at the poles, but that wouldn't account for all the carbon.
I would have liked to have a
shot at the pole, which I really believe the car was capable of.
The negative state involves relatively high pressure
at the pole pushing winds, cold air and storms into lower latitudes.
These holes
occur at the poles and low latitudes, and reach their largest when activity on the sun is at its minimum.
«Whatever we
find at the poles probably built up atom by atom, molecule by molecule, from impacts all over the globe,» he says.
The surface of the
earth at the poles is near the center of mass as it's on the spin axis.
Because water vapor is not evenly distributed globally, there would be about 5 cm near the equator and less than one tenth as
much at the poles.
The vast majority of scientists agree that human activities are influencing changes to the climate —
especially at the poles — and believe that the situation requires serious attention.
Take a
look at the poles sticking out from the ceiling on the top left: There's far more detail here.
Changes in methane are
recorded at both poles, and they should occur almost exactly in step as gases are quickly mixed through the whole atmosphere.
Because of the long
days at the poles in the summer, it's easy to forget what time it is and work past midnight.
But in my post, I explained why he is wrong to use global ice area, rather than looking at the
trends at each pole.
Despite this effect, the known ice
loss at both poles suggests that embedded in the local rises is a signal of current climate change — researchers just have to tease it out.
The surface
albedo at both poles is such that much of the light that gets to the surface is reflected regardless of the angle of incidence.
I've met only a handful of researchers with his mix of skills — most, as it happens, focused on the extreme
environments at the poles.
An international research team says the ozone, which protects humans and other species from harmful ultraviolet radiation, is continuing to
recover at the poles.