Posted on 02/17/2021 4:53:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It’s as if the world has been turned upside-down, or at least its weather. You can blame the increasingly familiar polar vortex, which has brought a taste of the Arctic to places where winter often requires no more than a jacket.
Around the North Pole, winter’s ultra-cold air is usually kept bottled up 15 to 30 miles high. That’s the polar vortex, which spins like a whirling top at the top of the planet. But occasionally something slams against the top, sending the cold air escaping from its Arctic home and heading south. It’s been happening more often, and scientists are still not completely sure why, but they suggest it’s a mix of natural random weather and human-caused climate change.
“It’s been a major breakdown,” said Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center on Cape Cod. “It really is the cause of all of these crazy weather events in the Northern Hemisphere.”
“It’s been unusual for a few weeks now — very, very crazy,” Francis said. “Totally topsy-turvy.”
While both the vortex and the wave that bumped it are natural, and polar vortex breakdowns happen naturally, there is likely an element of climate change at work, but it is not a sure thing that science agrees on.
“There is evidence that climate change can weaken the polar vortex, which allows more chances for frigid Arctic air to ooze into the Lower 48,” said University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd.
As for people thinking this cold outbreak disproves global warming, scientists say that’s definitely not so.
Even with climate change, “we’ll still have winter,” said North Carolina state climatologist Kathie Dello. “What we’re seeing here is we’re pretty unprepared for almost every type of extreme weather. It’s pretty sad.”
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>> It’s been happening more often, and scientists are still not completely sure why, but they suggest it’s a mix of natural random weather and human-caused climate change.
Bullstalin
Those astute scientists might want to look at Bio-engineering ... they’ve been doing a lot more of that recently.
To think when I was a kid it was just weather. Now we have polar vortexes, cyclone bombs, el ninos and global warming. Sad part is its still just the weather buts its being weaponized against us to promote their agenda. The poor children being taught this will never see the truth and people like me will continued being labeled deniers. Sad times.
And apparently weather is “random” and not driven by science or predictable but MAN is a significant factor! < /AgitProp >
When the phrase climate change is used, it’s assumed that it is man-caused. The idea that natural climate change would have the same impact isn’t entertained. Of course, the liberals don’t recognize natural climate change as even a remote possibility; that would undermine the agenda.
We’re nearing the end of the inter-glacial epoch. It is to be expected that the next Ice Age will approach in increments.
The Globalist science community puts ideology before scientific method and are reluctant to discuss the obvious. Wouldn’t be good for their careers.
Glaciers in Goliad. Whoa.
Another inch of globull warming fell in Ft Worth last night
Obama can slow the rising sea and heal the planet. Surely, he can thwart the vortex.
I prefer the term “Canadian Clipper”
They said that “something” slammed against the top of the polar vortex.
They don’t say what but from their “story” (fairy tale) it must have been global warming/climate change/fairy dust.
Well there ya go. "Well, it's actually Global Climate Change, you see."
Been having it both ways since the first time we heard this one in what, 1986 or so by my recollection.
Weather varies. Expecting it to always remain the same is stupid.
Bkmk
If only someone, maybe someone really rich, could come up with a way to dim the sun?
“ Weather varies. Expecting it to always remain the same is stupid.”
Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.
L
“not sure why,” “could be,” “might be,” “they suggest,” etc. In other words, they don’t know and are guessing.
Well until they have rock solid proof of anything, let’s NOT spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars or harm U.S. businesses in an effort to “fix” the weather.
i dont appreciate being talked down to by this non-male being..
what the opposite of mansplaining ?
Joe Bastardi was warning about this a week before it happened.
Particularly about the vulnerability of the Texas electrical grid. He compared it to hurricane-level devastation.
This is the real message to the sheeple. You're freezing to death because global warming is
you're fault!
Gads, but stupid people, not the spin meisters, will be the downfall of the country.
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