Here’s Why the Northeast’s Next Winter Is Going to Be Freakishly Cold

[ellenrr]

New research shows that vanishing Arctic summer sea ice—a consequence of global warming—may drive extreme winters in lower latitudes for decades to come.

When it comes to the global climate, what happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic. The latest proof comes in new research connecting the unusually brutal winter of 2014–15 along the East Coast of North America to rapidly vanishing summer sea ice on the western side of the Arctic Ocean.

The new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, advances a growing body of science demonstrating that these record-breaking extremes have not been a pause in the advance of human-driven climate change but a result of it.
The findings suggest that as the Arctic continues to thaw, the mercury will crash over many winters to come.
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http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/08/31/arctic-sea-ice-melt-global-warming-extreme-cold-winters?cmpid=ait-fb

[Gothmog]

1. But if there is snow any where in the world, then global climate change does not exist

That idiot Inhofe will be bringing in another snowball to the floor of the Senate

[Hydra]

5. And the next one who does it will be roundly ignored too

Part of the problem was in the framing- the planet is warming, so "global warming" is certainly a thing, but the results are, depending on who you ask...unpredictable, or predictably bad for us.

[Lochloosa]

2. Dammit, does that mean I should have planted my fall crop of tomatoes already?

[RiverLover]

3. And others are saying the temps will be milder because of el nino

ie,
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/08/el-nino-weather

I hope they're right. Bring on the snow, just please let it not be as cold as last winter.

[starroute]

4. A strong el Nino pulls the southern jet stream way to the north

So that could keep out the worst of the Arctic blasts -- at least for the early part of the winter. The el Nino is expected to wane as the winter progresses though, and I haven't yet seen anything that breaks it down by month.