How Arctic Warming Alters Weather Patterns

[roberte]

Like many press releases, a bit overstated. One more paper to add to the growing by the month, from dozens of journals, pile that is showing what we are doing with our profligate burning of fossil fuels.

Arctic Warming is Altering Weather Patterns, Study Shows

By Andrew Freedman

By showing that Arctic climate change is no longer just a problem for the polar bear, a new study may finally dispel the view that what happens in the Arctic, stays in the Arctic.

The study, by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University and Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, ties rapid Arctic climate change to high-impact, extreme weather events in the U.S. and Europe.

The study shows that by changing the temperature balance between the Arctic and mid-latitudes, rapid Arctic warming is altering the course of the jet stream, which steers weather systems from west to east around the hemisphere. The Arctic has been warming about twice as fast as the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, due to a combination of human emissions of greenhouse gases and unique feedbacks built into the Arctic climate system.

Much more at http://www.climatecentral.org/news/a...ns-study-shows

[bunkie]

good article roberte. everything is connected...the temps, the winds, the ocean currents, etc..., all of it. when one thing is affected, they all are.

[spacecase0]

read the translation of the Piri Re'is Map
Antarctica at least had an ice free coast not so long ago

[FAADAN]

Originally Posted by spacecase0

read the translation of the Piri Re'is Map
Antarctica at least had an ice free coast not so long ago

It was all that composting cow manure that caused the warming then.

[roberte]

Originally Posted by bunkie

good article roberte. everything is connected...the temps, the winds, the ocean currents, etc..., all of it. when one thing is affected, they all are.

Interesting how those who make a conscious choice to disagree can't really bring anything substantive to argue against those findings...