permafrost wrote:
You right wingers are like an out of control group of Jr. high children..
For starters the CC axiom does not predict specific weather events.. It does state however to expect weather extreams.. That is what we have this week.
cold, storm, and tidal surge all at once on the east.. Must be unpleasant. Even we have had cold weather for over a week.. Nothing record busting, but low of 20plus below zero..
The last 3 years at this time we have had brown Christmas and even rain during this period.. our snow this year is only about 4 or 5 inches but at least is white.
These weather extremes have been with us for years, each seem worse than the last.
Hurricanes, you say we have not had much other then last summer.. that is correct, but the pacific has had record storms several of the last years.
so the extremes will continue, when and where no one knows until the get to us..
And you think that because anyone with a brain accepts that CC is upon us that we should be able to tell you how to fix it...
Well surprise.. I am going to tell you how to fix it.. You have been told at least a 1000 times but have never listened..
Stop greenhouse gases...... Reduce the fossil fuel use... Not any mystery... I told you that you would not like it and pretend it is not true.. But it is and only you, the orange man and Pruitt stand in the way of success..
If you live in the eastern half of North America, you may have noticed that it’s cold outside, and not just because it's winter. While much of December has been unusually warm, these past few days have seen temperatures drop to the point where hot water spontaneously turns into snow when thrown.
So why is it so cold? It may seem like an easy joke to make a pun about global warming, but actually increasing temperatures are partly to blame. Of course sometimes it justgets cold in winter, but a lot of the extreme weather the Northeast is experiencing right now has to do with climate change.
As the Arctic—and the rest of the globe—gets warmer, these changing temperatures can have an effect on the jet stream, the band of air that travels west to east, typically near the U.S. border with Canada. Normally, it acts like a barrier, keeping cold Arctic air trapped in the northern latitudes and away from most of the people on the East Coast. At least, in theory.
In practice, a warming Arctic strains the jet stream’s ability to keep all that cold polar air locked away in the north. When the jet stream falters, that polar air can make its way south, sometimes as far as the Gulf Coast. And over the next week or so, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. Take a look at these air pressure maps of North America:
Atmospheric pressure maps of North America, from Sunday Dec 31 through Thursday Jan 4.
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/WPC
These maps show that air from the far north of Canada is flowing south into the American Midwest and Northeast, which is why it’s so cold outside right now. Normally the jet stream keeps that air confined to Canada, but thanks to climate change it's taking a hard right after passing the Rockies and heading south almost to the Gulf Coast.
So if you’re stuck outside on the East Coast this week freezing your extremities off, you can thank global warming.
You right wingers are like an out of control group... (
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Hmmm!! Permafrost. Interesting handle considering the topic.