Posted on 09/17/2014 9:48:38 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Remember that sudden, extreme plunge in temperatures throughout much of the United States in January 2014, which led to life-threatening wind chills that forced schools to close in the Midwest? Many were mystified to hear that it was caused by a disturbance of a previously obscure atmospheric phenomenon called the Polar Vortex.
Well, if you hated shivering through that cold snap, you better stock up on thermal underwear.
A new study published by U.S. and South Korean researchers in Nature Communications predicts that as the world gets warmer, parts of North America, Europe and Asia paradoxically could be hit by such cold snaps more often due to blasts of Arctic air. The explanation is that shrinking sea ice could allow more energy to be transferred from the warmer ocean waters beneath it into the atmosphere. That energy weakens and distends the Polar Vortex, which actually is a huge cyclone of swirling high-speed winds that keeps cold air trapped in the Arctic. When the vortex weakens, it allows the cold air to slip southward.
The amount of sea ice naturally has tended to vary from year to year, and cold snaps caused by distortions of the Polar Vortex have been happening sporadically for a long time. But in recent years, apparently due to climate change, the phenomenon has been occurring more often, and since 2000 it has happened nearly every year, according to the study.
The researchers documented that many such outbreaks of brutal cold happened a few months after unusually low sea ice levels in the Barents and Kara seas, off Russia, and constructed a computer model that matched the results.
Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., told the Associated Press that while sea ice has increased slightly this year since reaching record lows in 2012, the overall pattern since the 1970s has resulted in a decrease of about 40 percent.
In other words....
Its colder because it is hotter
I wonder if they realize how ridiculous they sound?
You know, this has given me a great idea.
If I can heat my kitchen enough, I won’t need a refrigerator any longer.
Record expansion of Antarctic sea ice confounds climate scientists
http://iceagenow.info/2014/09/record-expansion-antarctic-sea-ice-confounds-climate-scientists/
Record Antarctic sea ice more than twice the size of the contiguous United States
http://iceagenow.info/2014/09/record-antarctic-sea-ice-size-contiguous-united-states/
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent – Yet another all-time record!!!
http://iceagenow.info/2014/09/antarctic-sea-ice-extent-all-time-record/
18 Years and Counting
http://iceagenow.info/2014/09/18-years-counting/
Nobody alive today saw snow this early in Rapid City, SD
http://iceagenow.info/2014/09/alive-today-snow-early-rapid-city-sd/
They sure make up some tough rules, “heads=global warming, tails=global warming”.
Claim: New Antarctic sea-ice extent due to wind and ‘atmospheric warming’ – what warming?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/15/claim-new-antarctic-sea-ice-extent-due-to-wind-and-atmospheric-warming-what-warming/
The Round peg doesn’t fit the Square hole.
“How can we bullsh** them today for more grant money.”
Global warming causes acne ... next?
Such unabashed liars! It really is stunning.
they constructed a computer model that matched the results......shocking...more yellow climate research
Ah, the Stephen Foster Climate Change Theory of Ol’ Suzanna
“It rained so hard the other night, the weather it was dry,
The sun so hot I froze to death, Suzanna don’t you cry.”
The words & spelling might not be totally correct it is from memory of times long past in this old head of mine.
Of course the wicked oceans swallowed up all the global warming that occurred in the last 18 years and hid it under a rock in the bottom of the ocean floor.
But...but...reality doesn’t fit the narrative! Stop it!
I saw an article on FR just a few days ago that said the arctic polar vortex was pushed east and compressed because of a warm spot in the NE Pacific off Alaska and Canada. It said that this will cause warmer and dryer conditions in the west and colder conditions in the upper Midwest and east. It had nothing to do with the extent of the arctic ice pack.
Would not the heat from the exposed ocean surface also warm the frigid arctic air during their theoretical process ?
Where I live it’s been in the 90’s and 100 degrees for the last three weeks.
I am so sick of regional warming, in the middle summer.
Ugh!
Serenity Now!
“Global Warming Could Cause More Cold Snaps”
ROTFLOL!
Is there ANYTHING that global warming can’t do!
BTW, here’s a little tune I wrote. It’s called “Global Warming” and it’s sung to the tune of “Monorail”
Lyle Lanley:
You know, a town with money’s a little like the mule with the spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it.
(everyone laughs except Homer who at first doesn’t get the joke)
Homer:
Heh-heh, mule.
Lyle Lanley:
The name’s Lanley, Lyle Lanley. And I come before you good people tonight with an idea. Probably the greatest—Aw, it’s not for you. It’s more a Shelbyville idea.
Mayor Quimby:
Now, wait just a minute. We’re twice as smart as the people of Shelbyville. Just tell us your idea and we’ll vote for it.
Lyle Lanley:
All right. I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I’ll show you my idea. I give you the Springfield Global Warming!
(everyone gasps)
I’ve sold Global Warmings to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map!
Well, sir, there’s nothin’ on earth like a genuine bona-fide electrified six-car Global Warming! What’d I say?
Ned Flanders:
Global Warming!
Lyle Lanley:
What’s it called?
Patty and Selma:
Global Warming.
Lyle Lanley:
That’s right!
Global Warming!
Cast:
Global Warming...Global Warming...Global Warming... (continue over the following lyrics)
Miss Hoover:
I hear those things are awfully loud.
Lyle Lanley:
It glides as softly as a cloud.
Apu:
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley:
Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney Gumble:
What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley:
You’ll be given cushy jobs.
Grampa Simpson:
Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley:
No, good sir, I’m on the level.
Chief Wiggum:
The ring came off my pudding can.
Lyle Lanley;
Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear, it’s Springfield’s only choice!
Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
All:
Global Warming...
Lyle Lanley:
What’s it called?
Global Warming...
Once again!
Global Warming!
Marge:
But Main Street’s still all cracked and broken.
Bart:
Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
All:
Global Warming...
Global Warming!!!!!!!!!
Global Warming!!
Global Warming!!!!!
Homer:
Mono—D’oh!
Were it not for the ranting of the global warming cretins, I’d just assume the weather was trending back to normal.
Probably not
With so little truly known about how the Earth’s climate actually works almost anything can be suggested and how can it be refuted?
About all that can be done is to say that evidence does not support the assertion.
So let me get this straight.
According to theory:
1. global warming causes shrinking sea ice
2. shrinking sea ice causes polar vortex
3. polar vortex causes regional colder weather
4. regional colder weather proves global warming
Wonderful. Now, how about the fact that THE SEA ICE IS NOT SHRINKING!!!
Where does that FACT fit in with the WONDERFUL THEORY???
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