Posted on 01/05/2018 11:39:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Biting Arctic air — bringing wind chills as low as 30 below — will make the outdoors miserable for more than 130 million Americans in the Northeast, as well as parts of the Southeast and Great Plains this weekend, forecasters warn.
But before folks file this cold snap away under "typical winter weather," scientists say the potentially record-breaking temperatures in store for Friday night through Sunday are being fed, at least in part, by a warming climate.
Confused?
A study published last year in the journal WIRES Climate Change, however, lays out how the warming Arctic and melting ice appear to be linked to cold weather being driven farther south.
"Very recent research does suggest that persistent winter cold spells (as well as the western drought, heatwaves, prolonged storminess) are related to rapid Arctic warming, which is, in turn, caused mainly by human-caused climate change," Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at Rutgers University and one of the study's authors, said in an email.
"'Persistent' is the key word here, as overall we expect that record-breaking cold events will occur less often in the future but they will likely last longer," she wrote.
Normally, cold air already sits above the North Pole in a swirling area of low pressure known as the polar vortex, which itself is not caused by global warming or climate change, meteorologists say.
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For THE LOVE!
Goebbels. Exactly
No. BS is.
Wait— It was “global Warming”???
JUST GIVE IT UP, PEOPLE. The real global warming you should be concerned about and wanting to avoid is the heat from the pits of hell. Let’s focus on the real. http://www.thereishopeinJesus.com/
uh.....because it is too dangerous to the liberal narrative to expose the tool they’ve invented to control population growth, industry, freedom, capitalism, etc.
Abundance of hurricanes: Global Warming
Tornados that wipe out Scout Camp: Global Warming
Reduction of Arctic Ice: Global Warming
Increase in Arctic Ice: Global Warming
Migration: Global Warming
Drought: Global Warming
Floods: Global Warming
There isn't ANYTHING that can't be explained by Global Warming as being the underlying cause. Global Warming is surely a perfect example of a "god of the gaps".
Once you have ALL weather covered by “climate change” you’ve won the argument. The millenials and LIVs buy this crap.
Climate change.....Yea the climate changed from 90 degree days to subarctic temps in the course of 4 months here in MA.
We need billions of tax dollars to fight this phenomenon!!
There was a time when I didn’t believe in the Zombie Apocalypse. What a rube I was!
Forgot about WINTER ?
‘Just send us more money and we’ll prove our theory!’
A woman who relies on climate change for a job and for a publishing credit to help keep her job is convinced that climate change is solely responsible for ‘unusual’ weather.
What a coincidence!
They are as brain-dead as Darwinists. Oh wait, they are the same people!
Climate change causes heat. Climate change causes cold. Climate change causes drought. Climate change causes floods.
For crying out loud ... this is getting ridiculous. Yes ... the climate changes. It has since the beginning of time. But it’s NOT a man made issue. Crazy loons.
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