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The Guardian brings us the reason this winter was unusually awful for the US.
China's air pollution could be intensifying storms over the Pacific Ocean and altering weather patterns in North America, according to scientists in the US. A team from Texas, California and Washington state has found that pollution from Asia, much of it arising in China, is leading to more intense cyclones, increased precipitation and more warm air in the mid-Pacific moving towards the north pole.
As we suffer through a winter of discontent (it is still snowing here in the north east) do you actually believe that China will change policies, or will they continue to "stop global warming" through extensive use of coal?
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Savage's Law of Expediency:
You want it bad, you'll get it bad.
(Score: 2) by lubricus on Friday April 18 2014, @06:31AM
This could easily go the other way!
We had a mild winter in Europe while the US had an extreme winter, with freezes as far south as Atlanta. The important thing is to realize why: The polar vortex was the result of the cold artic air breaking through the arctic fence, and moving down into North America.
In essence, climate change allows the cold arctic air to "wobble" off the pole, which warmed Europe as it froze North America.
The important thing to realize is that this wobble could occur in any direction, and the unpredictability of this is the scary part.
... sorry about the typos