So there are 2 poorly understood mechanisms affecting temperature. One has been measured over E Antarctica (clouds) & the other (clouds) over Greenland. In the 2 pages below a value of 40% is mentioned from dust alone, but I was not clear whether that referred to T over the EA -> https://twitter.com/Kenneth72712993/status/1249041064704593920

or to the global T. Forgive the naive question at 4am, but given warming at the eqtr & the tropics, I'd understood that water vapour (& now dust in S hemisphere) moved to the poles. As the WV moves to the poles, clouds form & the result is rain/snow. In the SH, the dust should ->

nucleate water droplets producing precipitation. So, we have 2 mechanisms with WV favouring cooling whereas dust precipitation favours warming. What is the overall heat remaining in the Earth's atmosphere & what is the contribution of each? I often get the impression that we ->

are looking at a %age of a %age of a %age , where the final %age comprises the overall system that is not 'closed', whereas the other %ages can be attributed to mechanisms within cycles working antagonistically within the whole. I can see the layers, mechanisms & cycles, but ->

not the hard numbers in energy/heat units so to speak. For the public & the media, the 40% sticks in their memories, but the variable and the overall sum do not. Clarification would be helpful.

In referring back to the lower pages in this thread it is now clear to me that the 40% corresponds to a decrease in the atmospheric cooling rate, but from what to what? Also, with shifts in ocean currents, winds & thus 'weather', are these workers reporting changing weather ->

patterns that in prior years before the geomagnetic excursions began, events that would otherwise have occurred at another location away from Antarctica? In other words, is this part of a geographical shift in the weather pattern that has warming consequences for Antarctica? ->

How, does this fit in with the volcanic activity beneath the glaciers warming the W. Antarctic? I have read here & elsewhere that the WA is warming, but the EA is not. Do we need 100 more studies on both locations to calculate a mean & SE or is this just another mole hill?