Or, maybe, most people are intelligent enough to realise there is a disconnect when a moron like futures currents claims that the world is overheating due to mmgw but at the same time mmgw caused europe to have one of the coldest winters in history.
Put another nail in the AGW coffin. I thought I was going to wake up to snow this morning here in Dallas. And, there is talk of the glacier advancing into Texas across the Oklahoma border if we don't get some spring weather soon. You guys had better sell all your real estate north of the Mason/Dixon line because it will soon be under 100 feet of ice and snow. The confluence of the PDO and AMO turning to the cold cycle along with the solar hibernation is going to cause the biggest freeze anyone alive has ever seen. Enjoy! P.S. Stock up some non perishable food.
It was called "global warming" by the alarmists until all the recent statistics showed there was no warming then the alarmists changed the name to "climate change" .... and blame every weather event on it.
"Recent statistics..." It's colder here today than it was yesterday, so that means there will be no summer?
You can't have it your way, rectum. It's either 'one of the coldest winters in history' or 'THE coldest winter in 50 years.' Take your pick
Look, I know this is going to difficult for you guys since you can't even comprehend how a rising level of a greenhouse gas is raising temperatures but here goes...... "Arctic sea ice is thawing at a historic rate, scientists say. In fact, a recent analysis of satellite data "utterly obliterates" the previous record, set in 2007. The chief culprit? Global warming. The potential upshot? Longer and more intense extreme-weather events such as heat waves, cold spells, and droughts. (Read more about extreme weather in National Geographic magazine.) On Monday, researchers at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said the rate of Arctic sea ice decline is now the highest that has ever been observed for the month of August. In August of this year, the sea ice disappeared at an average rate of about 35,400 square miles (91,700 square kilometers) per dayâor about twice as fast as normal, NSIDC scientists say. Moreover, the area of Arctic sea ice around the North Pole had shrunk to 1.58 million square miles (4.1 million square kilometers)âthe smallest measurement since 1979, when satellite observations began. By comparison, said NSIDC's Julienne Stroeve, Arctic sea ice cover in the 1970s and '80s at this time of year was typically in excess of 2.7 million square miles (7 million square kilometers). The worst news of all? The new record probably won't last long. With up to three more weeks of the melting season left, said Stroeve, the total is likely to shrink further. "It will be below 4 million square kilometers (1.5 million square miles) before it's all said and done." (See "Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Linked to Snowier Winters?") Sea Ice: Why Is This Year Different? Scientists think the old recordâ1.61 million square miles (4.17 million square kilometers) on September 18, 2007âwas made possible by a "perfect storm" of conditions that included an unusually persistent weather pattern known as an anticyclone, or high-pressure ridge, in the region that led to clear skies, which allowed more sunlight to reach the ice and melt it. But weird weather doesn't seem to be a factor this time around. "There's no persistent weather pattern that's emerged this summer," Stroeve said. "The ice is just thinner than it used to be. So it doesn't really matter so much what the summer weather does anymoreâthe thin ice melts out easier during the summer melt season." In a new study, detailed recently in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Stroeve and her colleagues analyzed nearly two dozen computer climate models to determine the extent to which global warming is responsible for the increasing shrinkage of Arctic sea ice. Her team determined that human activity can be blamed for some 60 percent of the observed rate of decline since 1979, with the rest due to natural climate variability. "If you run these climate models and you don't put in the observed record of greenhouse gases, none of them show the ice declining," Stroeve said. "None of them are able to capture what's happening today without including greenhouse gases." (Learn about the greenhouse effect.) Climate models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) also predict that Arctic summers will be completely free of sea ice in the coming decades if global warming continues unabated. In light of the new record low, said Jennifer Francis, a climate researcher at Rutgers University's Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, "I'm definitely thinking that we're going to see [ice-free Arctic summers] earlier than most people have suggested. "I think it could happen anytime within the next 30 years," instead of 50 years or more that some models predict, said Francis, who was not involved in the study. (See a world map of potential global warming impacts.) Sea Ice Loss Fuels Extreme Weather Even though Arctic sea ice is melting faster than at any point on record, it's not causing global sea levels to rise, Stroeve explained. That's because the space taken up by the melted sea ice is the same as the original ice coverâa process akin to what happens when ice cubes melt in a glass of water. But how long will that be the case? Scientists say Arctic sea ice shrinkage may yet play a role in sea-level rise if it causes land glaciersâlike those in Greenlandâto melt. (Read "The Big Thaw" in National Geographic magazine.) That could happen because as more sea ice melts, more open water is exposed, which in turn allows water vapor and heat that's been stored in the ocean to enter the atmosphere, where they can contribute to warmer temperatures and storm formation. And that's not all. According to research by Francis's team, Arctic sea ice reduction can both raise temperatures in the northern hemisphere and influence the "meander," or flow, of atmospheric jet streams, which are like rivers of air that circulate the globe. Already, said Francis, the Arctic melt has meant that "these meanders in the jet stream are both getting larger and moving more slowly." Since jet streams generate and steer storms, she added, their slowing meander can prolong fall and winter weather patterns across the entire Northern Hemisphere. "Many extreme weather events are associated with weather patterns that are stuck or moving very slowly ... including droughts, cold spells, heat waves," Francis said. (See a graphic of extreme-weather trends.) "I would not be at all surprised to see another unusual winter around the Northern Hemisphere" this year or next. "Everything is connected," added NSIDC's Stroeve. "Even though [Arctic sea ice melt] is happening thousands of miles away from us, it does impact our weather." Corrected: The intial version of this story said the rate of Arctic sea ice decline is the highest on record, but this is true for only the month of August. Also, the story said the "sea ice disappeared at an average rate of about 39 square miles (a hundred square kilometers)" in August 2012. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...ce-global-warming-record-environment-science/
In early 2011, the US and Europe froze, even as Greenland and Alaska experienced unusual periods of warmth. This year, the US and Europe were baking as the winter drew to an end, even as cold air hovered over Central Europe and Asia. In the Northern Hemisphere, extreme winter weather tends to be associated with the negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation, a wind pattern that dominates the polar region. And a consensus is building that changes in the Arctic may have permanently placed the Oscillation in the negative mode, leading to stable changes in the winters of the Northern Hemisphere. Cornell professor Charles H. Greene has just published a review of this idea, and we talked with him about what the warming Arctic might mean for the US and Europe. Greene's paper describes a key determinant of the Northern Hemisphere's winter weather: the Arctic Oscillation. When that is in its positive phase, a strong set of winds called the Polar Vortex forms. These winds help trap Arctic air masses at the pole, keeping the cold out of the mid-latitudes. This also allows the jet stream to take a more direct route around the globe, moderating the weather. But over the last few years, the Oscillation has been strongly negative; in fact, in 2010, we saw a record for the most strongly negative period we'd ever recorded. During this phase, the winds of the Polar Vortex weaken, allowing the cold Arctic air to intrude or mix into the air at lower latitudes. As a result of this, Greene told Ars two things happen to the jet stream: it gets substantially weaker, and it tends to meander widely from north to south as it traverses the globe. This can lead to the severe chills the US and Europe have experienced over the past several winters, but the meandering jet stream can also draw warmer southern air north, as happened in the US this spring. http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/06/colder-winters-may-be-new-normal-due-to-melting-arctic-ice/
You don't need to do much more than watch Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch to call bull-shit in the first sentence. The Alaskan Winter in 2010/2011 was one of the most brutal and coldest on record with one of the largest winter storms experienced by the state in February leading to record snow fall in many areas. See pages 6 to 8 of the Alaska Climate Dispatch from Spring 2011. http://ine.uaf.edu/accap/documents/spring11_dispatch.pdf "Most of Alaska experienced temperatures noticeably colder (i.e. negative deviation) than the normal 30- year average this winter (Figure 8, below). This winter was more typical of the winter weather conditions experienced in the 1960âs and early 1970âs." How come you continue to persist to post nonsense which is obviously incorrect from the first sentence forward? Why don't you go to Alaska and tell the citizens about how early 2011 involved an 'unusual period of warmth' and let them mock you.