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Related: About this forumClimate, Jetstream, and Polar Vortex
New interviews from climate scientists at last month's American Geophysical Union Fall meeting in San Francisco.
There is an emerging consensus on extremes, and it sheds light on our current weather in the (eastern) US.
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Climate, Jetstream, and Polar Vortex (Original Post)
greenman3610
Jan 2014
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groundloop
(11,488 posts)1. Awww..... what's a PhD from Stanford know???
I honestly can't believe the damned right wingers / climate change deniers. Like, why the hell do 99% of all climate scientists agree about climate change if it's a lie. (And it's starting to come out that those who disagree are being bought by the Koch's etc.).
DhhD
(4,695 posts)2. An interactive site on the Arctic other vortexes/oscillations below:
dougolat
(716 posts)3. The Accuweather satelite temperature map clearly shows...
....the rest of the Northern latitudes warmer than normal for the last month, the Arctic air-mass pulled down over North America, and warmer air pulled in to take it's place. (found on Accuweather.com - hit the climate button at the top of the page)
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)4. Limbaugh and Fox should apologize for misleading their viewers....
You won't see this kind of hard science report on Fox
It was Polar WARMING; that caused the Jet Stream to DIP and bring down COLD air.
Meanwhile; in StupidLand:
http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/01/07/foxs-bolling-suggests-climate-science-is-untrus/197470