Anecdotally, I have felt that I've been feeling differently, and worse, with the pressure changes from the rain (or cold/warm air interactions that cause it anyway). Puffed out feeling. Low-pressure -> less pressure to keep things closely together : expansion (like a bag of chips in mountains). Which made me think about how it could also effect our brains, and bodies. Atmospheric pressure and effecting our bodies(brains particularly) is something that I haven't seen a lot of people connect the dots on, as far as in relation to climate change, but there is evidence of less clear thinking in lower pressures (on planes). My guess is that the less clear thinking is probably related more to less oxygen though (less pressure/density = less oxygen, unless you've hooked yourself up to a breather). People are more likely to get headaches, especially migraines, with the change in air pressure. The expanding and contracting probably isn't very conducive to clear thinking (or anything good): anecdotally, agitation, foggy thinking, lethargy. There is less oxygen in lower pressures : I have noticed myself sleeping less easily, feeling short of breath, and waking up because of it (especially if windows are open). Faster changes in weather, from high to low temperatures, are the indications of more rapid pressure change. It's no accident that people complain of the blues, joint pain, headaches and migraines in cloudy weather. Kind of a d'oh moment for me. It's been obvious that the more rapid weather changes have been happening, and it's become clearer that the physiological, and corresponding psychological, changes have been happening too (as I've noticed in myself and others).
A good link :
A Brain for all Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change
It seems to me that trying to control the climate/weater, by maybe trying to even out (globally) temperature or pressure by modifying one or the other is really all that we're left with, for the next 100 years, if we want to avoid a bunch of death, chaos, extinctions, destruction, etc. (It won't be long, by the way, before real eco-terrorism starts to happen, maybe from a bunch of ticked off people who are effected the worst.)
To doubters: it won't be long before the conservatives who understood some of what this all means, and they are out there (one of them being a hardcore libertarian who was ousted by a TeaPartier who blathered on and on about how global warming wasn't happening), will have an "I told you so" moment, kind of like the only senator who voted against the Patriot Act (whose warnings about the vague and overly-broad language were spot-on compared to what has happened)... not that anyone will feel good about them being right, themselves included (which is pretty much the whole point of trying to avoid it).
A good link :
A Brain for all Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change
It seems to me that trying to control the climate/weater, by maybe trying to even out (globally) temperature or pressure by modifying one or the other is really all that we're left with, for the next 100 years, if we want to avoid a bunch of death, chaos, extinctions, destruction, etc. (It won't be long, by the way, before real eco-terrorism starts to happen, maybe from a bunch of ticked off people who are effected the worst.)
To doubters: it won't be long before the conservatives who understood some of what this all means, and they are out there (one of them being a hardcore libertarian who was ousted by a TeaPartier who blathered on and on about how global warming wasn't happening), will have an "I told you so" moment, kind of like the only senator who voted against the Patriot Act (whose warnings about the vague and overly-broad language were spot-on compared to what has happened)... not that anyone will feel good about them being right, themselves included (which is pretty much the whole point of trying to avoid it).
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