Posted on 11/21/2014 6:26:23 PM PST by Crazieman
It may be the timeliest -- and most troubling -- idea in climate science.
Back in 2012, two researchers with a particular interest in the Arctic, Rutgers' Jennifer Francis and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Stephen Vavrus, published a paper called "Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes." In it, they suggested that the fact that the Arctic is warming so rapidly is leading to an unexpected but profound effect on the weather where the vast majority of us live -- a change that, if their theory is correct, may have something to do with the extreme winter weather the U.S. has seen lately.
In their paper, Francis and Vavrus suggested that a rapidly warming Arctic should interfere with the jet stream, the river of air high above us that flows eastward around the northern hemisphere and brings with it our weather. Sometimes, the jet stream flows relatively directly from west to east; but other times, it takes long, wavy loops, as in the image above. And according to Francis and Vavrus, Arctic warming should make the jet stream more wavy and loopy on average – some have called it “drunk” -- with dramatic weather consequences.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Don’t worry , Obama will fix Global Warming when he gets tired of his Illegals
If true . . . but, of course, if not true, it would have nothing whatever to do with the snow all around us. What a crock!
Nonsense.
Nothing like manufacturing “growing evidence” . . . heh. If only they would use the manure they’re throwing at us to fertilize their organic gardens instead . . .
The MSM could sell a guy from Kenya by way of Indonesia as POTUS.
But I don’t think they can sell a guy from Buffalo on “global warming”.
Just my opinion though.
I guess weather can be climate when a god of climate change worshiper wants it to be.
Yea, right.
Just another excuse to introduce more taxes.
A blame Joe Bastardi, he predicted this. LOL
UP is DOWN
WHITE is BLACK
RIGHT is WRONG
COLD is HOT
And what you can plainly see and feel and touch right in front of your face must not just be IGNORED but treated as if it DOESN’T EXIST. Because it doesn’t fit the stated world view.
Reality can be determined by sheer willpower and force of belief.
The world has gone utterly stark raving mad.
Quote: “that the Arctic is warming so rapidly ...”
People are still swallowing this cra*ola - and will until they take their last breath as they tun into a permanent icicle
GoreBull said that by 2014, the ice cap would be completely melted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_UJ5ldi4UM
The most amazing thing about this is that these people don’t realize that the whole world is laughing at them.
Steven Vavrus is up to his "climate changing" eyeballs receiving research grants from the Federal Government.
Follow the money.
Remember the show Green Acres? The deal was everyone in Hooterville was nuts EXCEPT Oliver Douglass. But a sane man in an insane world looks like the crazy loon. I am having Oliver moments now, it’s like the whole country is Hooterville and either I am crazy or or they are crazy? Which is it?
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,”
Sigh. The stupid BURNS.
The number one rule in the globull warming cult is that EVERY weather event is caused by globull warming.
mr sun is the most important factor in earth’s weather patterns.
Beat me to it...../grrrrrrrrr
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