The First Red Pill - How Can You Weaponize the Lunar Atmospheric Tides When it Comes to Climate?

As Morpheus so famously said to Thomas Anderson in the movie "The Matrix":

"This your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."

This is the first of series of multiple posts that offers you the opportunity to EITHER, take the blue pill and continue to believe what the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) tells you about Australia's climate OR take the red pill and open your mind to an alternative reality.

RED PILL 1 The influence of cycles in the atmospheric lunar tides upon the Earth's atmospheric pressure can be re-inforced (i.e weaponized) if they constructively interfere with the annual seasonal cycle.

Q1. How Can You Weaponize the Lunar Atmospheric Tides When it Comes to Climate?

The most significant large-scale systematic variations of the atmospheric pressure, on an inter-annual to decadal time scale, are those caused by the seasons. These variations are predominantly driven by the change in the level of solar insolation with latitude that is produced by the effects of the Earth's obliquity (i.e. the tilt of its rotation axis with respect to the Earth-Sun plane) and its annual motion around the Sun (i.e. its orbit).

This raises an important question: What is the most effective way for cycles in the lunisolar atmospheric tides to influence the Earth's atmospheric pressure, on inter-annual to decadal time scales?

One way is that the lunisolar atmospheric tides can act independently of the variations in atmospheric pressure caused by the seasonal changes in the level of solar insolation with latitude.

If this was true, you would expect to see long-term periodicities in the atmospheric pressure records that would match periodicities of the most extreme peak lunar tides.

An alternative way is that the lunar atmospheric tides could act in "resonance" with (i.e. subordinate to) the atmospheric pressure changes caused by the far more dominant solar-driven seasonal cycles.

With this type of simple “resonance” model, it is not so much in what years do the atmospheric lunar tides reach their maximum strength, but whether or not there are peaks in the strength of the lunar atmospheric tides that re-occur at the same time within the annual seasonal cycle.

So the answer our original question is that, strong peaks in the lunar tidal forces that slowly drift through the seasons, with each advancing year, may not be as effective at influencing the Earth's atmospheric pressure distribution, as weaker tidal peaks that appear at precisely the same time during the seasonal year (hereafter referred to as seasonal peak tides).

In essence, the influence of cycles in the atmospheric lunar tides upon the Earth's atmospheric can be re-inforced (i.e weaponized) if they constructively interfere with the annual seasonal cycles.