Posted on 12/23/2022 9:02:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The data is clear: Rising global temperatures mean winters are getting milder, on average, and the sort of record-setting cold that spanned the country Friday is becoming rarer. But at the same time, global warming may be altering atmospheric patterns and pushing harsh outbreaks of polar air to normally moderate climates, according to scientists who are actively debating the link.
Drastic changes in the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, are at the center of the discussion. Shifts in Arctic ice and snow cover are triggering atmospheric patterns that allow polar air to spread southward more often, according to recent research.
“We’ve seen the same situation basically the last three years in a row,” said Jennifer Francis, senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Massachusetts. “Here we go again.”
But understanding any link between planetary warming and extreme cold remains a work in progress. Many climate scientists still emphasize that even if frigid air escapes the Arctic more often, winters will nonetheless become milder over time.
In the meantime, researchers are confident that cold extremes will follow larger global trends and gradually get warmer, though they still will have significant impacts on places unaccustomed to the cold.
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That is absolutely the best thing about “Climate Change” as a tool for tyranny.
Either hot weather, cold weather, all weather, or no weather can be used to justify emergent tyrannical action.
Global warming to climate change. Move the goalposts. Amazing.
Allow me to sum up this propaganda in one sentence:
No matter what the weather/climate does, "global warming" is real, and will kill us all if you don't cede your rights and freedoms to the government and their stable of "experts".
The weather is the weather whether you like it or not.
Scott Dance, eh? You misspelled Scott Dunce.
Yes, that sums it up pretty good. “Climate change” can be used by certain people as the cause for just about anything, but the people saying this may as well clam up because there’s not a thing they can do do about it except spend a lot of money under false pretenses.
Everything is "climate change". It is completely un-falsifiable.
It is about as un-scientific as a "theory" can be.
Global warming causes heat, and cold. The only thing it doesn’t do is cause the weather to stay the same except when it does.
This may come as a shock to climate “experts”, but typically, when it’s winter, it’ll be cold outside. Sometimes it’s really cold.
Conversely, when it’s summer, it’ll be hot outside. Sometimes it’s really hot.
It’s been that way since the Earth was a molten rock circling the sun. I guess that’s roughly 4.5 Billion years..
globull warming hoax
they pretend to control the climate in order to control you
genius!
brilliant!
“In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.”
Global warming is causing global cooling.
Got it.
Torrential rains are causing drought.
Gaia has a great sense of humor.
In the 70’s, it was beware the coming ice age....
I guess the totalitarians need some lame supposition for their policies.
We all expected it, right?
Even “extreme” cold weather will be attributed to (turn on the echo effect) Climate Change.
Maybe the children pushing this crap could notice that this weather has been happening basically forver? It’s called “winter” up here in the Northern latitudes.
And it’s not even “extreme”. It’s just that people didnt sensationalize it back oh, you know, just 20 years ago...
Not now baby. Any deviation from some fictional norm is the basis for Total Social Revolution! Shut down your gas burner now and freeze in the dark with the rest of us!
This year has had some weird weather. We’ve had a very cold autumn (by SoCal standards), in fact the coldest any of the old folks can remember. Yet Santa Ana conditions are expected to bring a high of 80 on Christmas weekend. No white Christmas here, not that I was actually expecting one.
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