‘Unprecedented’: Scientists Declare ‘Global Climate Emergency’ After Jet Stream Crosses Equator

[Purveyor]

Climate scientists this week expressed alarm after “unprecedented” data showed the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream crossing the Equator.

In a column on Tuesday, environmental blogger Robert Scribbler noted that the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream had merged with the Southern Hemisphere Jet Stream.

“It’s the very picture of weather weirding due to climate change. Something that would absolutely not happen in a normal world,” he wrote. “Something, that if it continues, basically threatens seasonal integrity.”

“Like many extreme events resulting from human-forced climate change — this co-mingling of upper level airs from one Hemisphere with another is pretty fracking strange,” Scribbler explained. “Historically, the Tropics — which produce the tallest and thickest air mass in the world — have served as a mostly impenetrable barrier to upper level winds moving from one Hemisphere to another. But as the Poles have warmed due to human-forced climate change, the Hemispherical Jet Streams have moved out of the Middle Latitudes more and more. ”

“That’s bad news for seasonality,” he continued. “You get this weather-destabilizing and extreme weather generating mixing of seasons that is all part of a very difficult to deal with ‘Death of Winter’ type scenario.”

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Also see: Jet Stream Crosses Equator, Unprecedented?

[DemFromPittsburgh]

1. Is this like chem trails???

[Raster]

2. NO. This is further evidence that this "experiment" called "human induced climate change"...

...is proceeding along at a brisk clip. We don't yet know the implications. This is all new phenomena.

[4139]

4. No, but this belongs on the Silly Read forum

[napi21]

6. No, not at all. Chem trails, or contrails are the result of the hot air from the jet engins

being expelled into the cold air of the atmosphere and forming ice crystals which is what you see that looks like a cloud stream behind the plane's engines.

The jet stream is the usual stream of air currents that used to flow in a fairly stable stream across the globe.

[DemFromPittsburgh]

10. I knew that

[CanadaexPat]

3. Winter ISN'T coming?

[d_r]

5. a new episode

of battlestar gallactica?

[deathrind]

7. Well that's not good.

The next few years/decade are going to be very interesting to see what happens as the temp continues to rise as it will to fall in line with the CO2 ppm levels.


The Earth Nullschool site is pretty cool site.

[jpak]

8. Holy Fuck

We...are...so...screwed

[DemFromPittsburgh]

11. When we run out of alcohol then we can panic

[orwell]

9. It's a Liberal Conspiracy...

...Rush told me so!

[Zen Democrat]

15. And Trump says it's a Chinese conspiracy.

[fasttense]

12. It's the constant instability of the weather that hurts farming and food production the most

This spring it went from cold to hot to cold then back to hot. This played havoc with vegtsble growth. Peas and beets would start to grow then stop, start again then stop. Fruit trees that were decades old died when it went from 80 degrees to 28 degrees in April.

This is a very dangerous development.

[enough]

14. Yes, it's people who live in the actual physical world in a real physical place who understand

what this means.

[fasttense]

19. Even pasture raised animals suffer from the constant shift in heat and cold.

Lambs are particularly susceptible to pneumonia when the temperatures go from hot to cold and back again. I have an organic farm and raise pastured sheep so I've seen this 1st hand. I've also heard that it is the same for cattle.

Climate change will really hurt food production.

[HDSam]

13. So long...

and thanks for all of the fish!

[niyad]

16. well, that does not sound good.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Purveyor.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

18. K & R...

This should have thousands of hits, but.... Of course it never will

[SoLeftIAmRight]

20. I think a strict dress code might be a good solution to this problem

more ties and lipstick - and no more flat shoes

coats at all eating establishments

[Maven]

21. This claim has been DEBUNKED by real climate scientists

See here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/06/30/claim-that-jet-stream-crossing-equator-is-climate-emergency-is-utter-nonsense/