One consequence of global warming is an increase in both
ocean evaporation into the atmosphere, and the amount of water vapor the atmosphere can hold.
Any tiny amount of logarithmic CO2 forcing is mostly offset by the added cloud cover / increased albedo caused by
increased ocean evaporation.
... the approximate rate of washout of carbon dioxide from the Earth's atmosphere via rainwater can be determined from the known
ocean evaporation rate and from the known solubility of CO2 in distilled water as a function of temperature and CO2 partial pressure.
«Understanding this asymmetric contribution
of ocean evaporation to drought and flooding in California will ultimately help us make better predictions.»
Just a hunch, but I suspect that is being caused by a combination of the cooling of the Eastern Pacific SST that took place from around 1980 until around 2015 and the progressively increasing enhanced GHE that also took place over that same period (
more ocean evaporation; more land warming.)
During global cooling periods, there is
less ocean evaporation, fewer clouds, lower albedo, which allows more TSI to hit the earth's surface, thus preventing snowball earth.
The researchers analyzed 30 - year data sets that recorded precipitation,
ocean evaporation, surface wind speed and atmospheric pressure on and near the west coast of the United States.
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Ocean evaporation provides moisture for California precipitation but is not the reason for droughts there, although the ocean evaporation is slightly lower during droughts,» Wei said.
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Ocean evaporation has little direct influence on California precipitation because of its relatively weak variability,» Wei said.
The only true external forcing is the Sun (and probably GCR),
ocean evaporation and Arctic freeze, thaw cycles do all of the regulation.
Various other feedbacks — related to emissions from soils and permafrost, for example, and changes to
ocean evaporation — are known or thought to exist.
CO2isLife — As Willis has so adroitly shown through his research, increased
ocean evaporation / cloud cover is the mechanism that keeps global temps so stable over eons of time.
There is
no ocean evaporation and the temperature rises daily.