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

TL;DR

This paper argues that global warming naturally leads to increased weather variability by using entropy-based physical reasoning to connect rising global energy with greater weather fluctuations.

Contribution

It introduces an entropy-based framework to demonstrate that global warming increases the free energy driving weather variability, providing a theoretical basis for observed changes.

Findings

Global warming increases the free energy available for weather dynamics.

Weather variance is expected to rise due to increased entropy.

Physical reasoning supports the link between warming and variability.

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.