Entropy Shows that Global Warming Should Cause Increased Variability in the Weather

2000/08/28 by John Michael Williams, Williams, John Michael
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #physics.gen-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0008228

v. 1.6 is slightly reformatted & refs. updated. 1.61 fixes ref error

arxiv created 2001/02/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Elementary physical reasoning seems to leave it inevitable that global warming would increase the variability of the weather. The first two terms in an approximation to the global entropy are used to show that global warming has increased the free energy available to drive the weather, and that the variance of the weather should increase correspondingly.

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