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Why a Warming Arctic May Be Causing Colder U.S. Winters
National Geographic ^ | July 11, 2017 | By Sarah Gibbens

Posted on 07/11/2017 11:36:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

When a U.S. Republican senator threw a snowball onto the Senate floor in late February of 2015, he used it to underscore his belief that humanmade climate change was an alarmist conclusion. The snowball had been rolled from the capital grounds in Washington D.C., which, at the time, was experiencing an uncharacteristically cold winter.

If global warming was real, he postured, how could the nation's capital experience such severe cold?

Uncharacteristically cold winters, however, just might be one of the most hard felt effects of climate change, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience by a team of researchers.

The study found that unusually cold temperatures in northern North America and lower precipitation in the south central U.S. all coincided with periods of warmer Arctic weather.

To reach this conclusion, the researchers analyzed how teleconnections in the Arctic cause cooler winters in North America. Teleconnections are largescale weather anomalies that influence weather across continents and span large portions of the atmosphere.

Anna Michalak, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science, was involved in creating the model that was used to collect data for the study's findings. She explained that the massive system of climate models, called CMIP5, creates a large dataset that allows researchers to study the interconnectedness between activity on Earth and the atmosphere.

While the specific repercussions of warmer Arctic seasons and the severity at which those repercussions will be felt requires further research, the study effectively underscores the interconnectedness of Earth's atmosphere.

Speaking about how human influence changes weather patterns, Machalak added, "Winters could be harsher; flooding is more intense; droughts are more frequent... By emitting greenhouse gasses, we're not just warming temperatures, we're perturbing the Earth's entire system."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arctic; capitalismmustdie; climatechangefraud; fakescience; globalism; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; socialism; thebiglie
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To: Uncle Sam 911
The earth getting warmer is making us colder?

Of course. There's only so much heat to go around. If more heat gathers in one place, making it hotter, then there will less heat in other places, thus making them colder. Isn't science fun?? /s

21 posted on 07/11/2017 11:50:19 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just read a piece of trivia about Goebbels. He was at a reception at the then swank Hotel Bristol in Berlin in February 1944 when the air raid sirens went off. He jumped in his car and scooted to a bunker. The Hotel was destroyed by a British bunker buster, killing most who stayed behind.


22 posted on 07/11/2017 11:50:27 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pay no attention to that snowman behind the curtain!


23 posted on 07/11/2017 11:50:29 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Seruzawa

Newsroom editors need to app[y a basic rule. Any story with a headline that reads, “Could, may, perhaps, potentially, might, impending, trends, etc....” Is not news.


24 posted on 07/11/2017 11:50:55 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

For those of you who are a little dense, I'll repeat...Hot of cold, cold or hot, it's all climate change. We always win the argument because we rigged the game.

25 posted on 07/11/2017 11:52:07 AM PDT by JPG (MAGA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I remember back when all the global warming models were predicting it would get colder.

Oh, wait. I mis-remembered.

those were global warming models from Bizarro World that I was thinking about.


26 posted on 07/11/2017 11:52:33 AM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nat’l Geo has gone full on with this “global warming” crap. If their subject matter isn’t tranny “rights,” it’s some other liberal cause.


27 posted on 07/11/2017 11:52:50 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hey, these scientists are really smart and know more than we do and so we must believe them. /sarc

Truth be told, they don't know for certain and can only speculate. Plus, they are in reactive mode and spend their time trying to explain anomalies in their models vs real-world instead of admitting that their models and predictions are not perfect and never will be. Yet, they lead us to believe that their theories and science is perfect and easily understood by the fact that they are willing to bet the farm (our farm) on a at best, risky, gamble.

28 posted on 07/11/2017 11:55:16 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Are they talking about the same arctic that has had continuous record “summer” cold lately preventing a thaw? ‘That’ arctic?


29 posted on 07/11/2017 11:59:22 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“May”? Let us know when it is proven to be true.

All this guessing and teaser titles are for children and the soap opera crowd.


30 posted on 07/11/2017 12:00:57 PM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Here we go again....it's so hot it's getting cold. I'll have to put my ice cube trays back in the oven.
31 posted on 07/11/2017 12:01:44 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Government can make you feel so small and mean.-John Steinbeck)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

‘How sheeps’ bladders prevent earthquakes.’

‘We must use the larger scales!’

...and therefor, a WITCH!

Men of science...with a long historical record!


32 posted on 07/11/2017 12:01:50 PM PDT by dasboot (Nuanced foreign relations is the germ of international misunderstanding.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Greenland is gaining ice and just recorded the coldest July temperature ever recorded in the Northern hemisphere.

33 posted on 07/11/2017 12:02:48 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bull! They have to stretch the truth a really long way to make sense of this.

Drier in the mid-south. Here in East Central Oklahoma it is nearly mid-July. Traditionally the gardens are burned up by now. We just had more than 5” of soaking rain last week. The Okra is 8” long and not tough. We pick it every day as we do beans, squash and purple hulls. In two weeks the pasture we cut for hay is now a foot high.

I notice with great interest that the records for this time of year, both high and lows, were set mostly in the mid-50s. I can remember those summers out on the Canadian River. It was like an honest to goodness oven.


34 posted on 07/11/2017 12:03:10 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The United Nations climate chief admitted on 03 February 2015 that the primary goal of the Global Warming hoax has been the gradual progressive destruction of Capitalism, "This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history", Ms Figueres stated at a press conference in Brussels. "This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution. That will not happen overnight and it will not happen at a single conference on climate change, be it COP 15, 21, 40 - you choose the number. It just does not occur like that. It is a process, because of the depth of the transformation."
35 posted on 07/11/2017 12:04:51 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
a study published in Nature Geoscience by a team of researchers ... whose livelihood depends on government grants...
36 posted on 07/11/2017 12:07:18 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Such BS artists. We had maybe two flakes of snow last winter...and those were probably dandruff.

Pay them taxes and they’ll save us. Right.


37 posted on 07/11/2017 12:12:33 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Anna Michalak, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science, was involved in creating the model that was used to collect data for the study's findings. She explained that the massive system of climate models, called CMIP5, creates a large dataset that allows researchers to study the interconnectedness between activity on Earth and the atmosphere.

I understand completely.

Garbage in, garbage out.

38 posted on 07/11/2017 12:13:24 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Uncle Sam 911

“The earth getting warmer is making us colder? I love voodoo science!”

If you boil water hot enough and long enough, it turns to ice.


39 posted on 07/11/2017 12:13:27 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Billthedrill

OK, I got it. Global Warming can cause Planetary Cooling, but you just have to be a Democrat to understand the concept.


40 posted on 07/11/2017 12:15:13 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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