Posted on 07/11/2017 11:36:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When a U.S. Republican senator threw a snowball onto the Senate floor in late February of 2015, he used it to underscore his belief that humanmade climate change was an alarmist conclusion. The snowball had been rolled from the capital grounds in Washington D.C., which, at the time, was experiencing an uncharacteristically cold winter.
If global warming was real, he postured, how could the nation's capital experience such severe cold?
Uncharacteristically cold winters, however, just might be one of the most hard felt effects of climate change, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience by a team of researchers.
The study found that unusually cold temperatures in northern North America and lower precipitation in the south central U.S. all coincided with periods of warmer Arctic weather.
To reach this conclusion, the researchers analyzed how teleconnections in the Arctic cause cooler winters in North America. Teleconnections are largescale weather anomalies that influence weather across continents and span large portions of the atmosphere.
Anna Michalak, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science, was involved in creating the model that was used to collect data for the study's findings. She explained that the massive system of climate models, called CMIP5, creates a large dataset that allows researchers to study the interconnectedness between activity on Earth and the atmosphere.
While the specific repercussions of warmer Arctic seasons and the severity at which those repercussions will be felt requires further research, the study effectively underscores the interconnectedness of Earth's atmosphere.
Speaking about how human influence changes weather patterns, Machalak added, "Winters could be harsher; flooding is more intense; droughts are more frequent... By emitting greenhouse gasses, we're not just warming temperatures, we're perturbing the Earth's entire system."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
Of course. There's only so much heat to go around. If more heat gathers in one place, making it hotter, then there will less heat in other places, thus making them colder. Isn't science fun?? /s
Just read a piece of trivia about Goebbels. He was at a reception at the then swank Hotel Bristol in Berlin in February 1944 when the air raid sirens went off. He jumped in his car and scooted to a bunker. The Hotel was destroyed by a British bunker buster, killing most who stayed behind.
Pay no attention to that snowman behind the curtain!
Newsroom editors need to app[y a basic rule. Any story with a headline that reads, “Could, may, perhaps, potentially, might, impending, trends, etc....” Is not news.
I remember back when all the global warming models were predicting it would get colder.
Oh, wait. I mis-remembered.
those were global warming models from Bizarro World that I was thinking about.
Nat’l Geo has gone full on with this “global warming” crap. If their subject matter isn’t tranny “rights,” it’s some other liberal cause.
Truth be told, they don't know for certain and can only speculate. Plus, they are in reactive mode and spend their time trying to explain anomalies in their models vs real-world instead of admitting that their models and predictions are not perfect and never will be. Yet, they lead us to believe that their theories and science is perfect and easily understood by the fact that they are willing to bet the farm (our farm) on a at best, risky, gamble.
Are they talking about the same arctic that has had continuous record “summer” cold lately preventing a thaw? ‘That’ arctic?
“May”? Let us know when it is proven to be true.
All this guessing and teaser titles are for children and the soap opera crowd.
‘How sheeps’ bladders prevent earthquakes.’
‘We must use the larger scales!’
...and therefor, a WITCH!
Men of science...with a long historical record!
Greenland is gaining ice and just recorded the coldest July temperature ever recorded in the Northern hemisphere.
Bull! They have to stretch the truth a really long way to make sense of this.
Drier in the mid-south. Here in East Central Oklahoma it is nearly mid-July. Traditionally the gardens are burned up by now. We just had more than 5” of soaking rain last week. The Okra is 8” long and not tough. We pick it every day as we do beans, squash and purple hulls. In two weeks the pasture we cut for hay is now a foot high.
I notice with great interest that the records for this time of year, both high and lows, were set mostly in the mid-50s. I can remember those summers out on the Canadian River. It was like an honest to goodness oven.
Such BS artists. We had maybe two flakes of snow last winter...and those were probably dandruff.
Pay them taxes and they’ll save us. Right.
I understand completely.
Garbage in, garbage out.
“The earth getting warmer is making us colder? I love voodoo science!”
If you boil water hot enough and long enough, it turns to ice.
OK, I got it. Global Warming can cause Planetary Cooling, but you just have to be a Democrat to understand the concept.
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