Posted on 09/17/2014 9:48:38 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Remember that sudden, extreme plunge in temperatures throughout much of the United States in January 2014, which led to life-threatening wind chills that forced schools to close in the Midwest? Many were mystified to hear that it was caused by a disturbance of a previously obscure atmospheric phenomenon called the Polar Vortex.
Well, if you hated shivering through that cold snap, you better stock up on thermal underwear.
A new study published by U.S. and South Korean researchers in Nature Communications predicts that as the world gets warmer, parts of North America, Europe and Asia paradoxically could be hit by such cold snaps more often due to blasts of Arctic air. The explanation is that shrinking sea ice could allow more energy to be transferred from the warmer ocean waters beneath it into the atmosphere. That energy weakens and distends the Polar Vortex, which actually is a huge cyclone of swirling high-speed winds that keeps cold air trapped in the Arctic. When the vortex weakens, it allows the cold air to slip southward.
The amount of sea ice naturally has tended to vary from year to year, and cold snaps caused by distortions of the Polar Vortex have been happening sporadically for a long time. But in recent years, apparently due to climate change, the phenomenon has been occurring more often, and since 2000 it has happened nearly every year, according to the study.
The researchers documented that many such outbreaks of brutal cold happened a few months after unusually low sea ice levels in the Barents and Kara seas, off Russia, and constructed a computer model that matched the results.
Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., told the Associated Press that while sea ice has increased slightly this year since reaching record lows in 2012, the overall pattern since the 1970s has resulted in a decrease of about 40 percent.
In this type of science they certainly have no use for facts like that. The recovering ice spits out a little extra warmth during the refreeze each fall: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php You may need to click on some prior years to see that. But that is about it and the only possible effect would be in the early to mid fall. By late fall the temperatures vary naturally.
There are two mistakes in this "science". First the weather determines the arctic temperature above the ice during the winter and therefore the weather determines whether the polar vortex "distends" or not. The second mistake is that climate models are fairly unambiguous in predicting the opposite of the conclusion in this "science". Not that anyone should believe the models, but if you do, then you would see a stronger, flatter polar jet in winter. The fact that these "scientists" have not studied those models is no surprise. The global warming catastrophe crowd is full of morons who ignore prior science and try to fit whatever catastrophe they can find into any new theory they can invent.
Wow, they’re making this stuff up. Right?
My area had its earliest fall frost ever in history Saturday, 9/13. (Records have been kept for 117 years).
That created the third shortest growing season (134 days), behind 114 days in 1901, and 133 days in 1912.
I got lucky. I must be in a heat island. My entire garden survived. My 140 tomato plants and 40 pepper plants are still green and producing.
As one Global Warming Team scientist explained it to me, “It is like punching a mammary that I am nursing. When I push and create an indentation, it creates a bulge in another place. If I kneed an area and pull it out, a pucker is produced on the other side. So it is with climate. If it is hot in one place, it makes it cold in another. If the temps got very hot on land, we could see freezing at the bottom of the oceans. We think about this a lot.”
Carbon, the wonder element. It there anything it can’t do?
So..., as I age, I get younger? Is that about it?
These people must have the longest colons in the world....they’re constantly pulling stuff out of their a..es.
I’m reading a book called “After the Ice” about the rise of civilization at the end of the last Ice Age. The author states that at the end of the Younger Dryas (about 9600 B.C.) that global temperatures rose 44-degrees F. in less than ten years. They’ve not uncovered the remains of the SUVs responsible for this huge temperature change, but they’re still digging.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
He’s looking mighty warm there!
We can't yet, but we just need a bit more money.
When will these moonbats get over the issue of Global Warming? Its a hoax and we all know it. Get over it!
LOL! You are so right.
Sorting out the smart people from the stupid people who will go along with whatever our overlords say next.
Smart people beware - eventually, they will come for you.
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