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posted by n1 on Monday November 21 2016, @09:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-should-still-bring-a-jacket dept.

The Washington Post reports that weather conditions at the North Pole are abnormally warm for the beginning of winter.

It's polar night there now — the sun isn't rising in much of the Arctic. That's when the Arctic is supposed to get super-cold, when the sea ice that covers the vast Arctic Ocean is supposed to grow and thicken.

[...] "It's about 20C [36 degrees Fahrenheit] warmer than normal over most of the Arctic Ocean, along with cold anomalies of about the same magnitude over north-central Asia," Jennifer Francis, an Arctic specialist at Rutgers University, said by email Wednesday.

"The Arctic warmth is the result of a combination of record-low sea-ice extent for this time of year, probably very thin ice, and plenty of warm/moist air from lower latitudes being driven northward by a very wavy jet stream."

No one quoted in the article speaks about Global Warming, but they all think the situation in the Arctic is anomalous and are interesting in learning more about its causes.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @04:23AM (#431050)

    And they say snopes has a left-wing bias...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @02:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @02:23PM (#431220)

    Past couple months you link anybody living in a truthy bubble to Snopes and they'll immediately say they're biased and deny deny deny. So I've been trying to figure this out. If Snopes debunks something [snopes.com] that would make a conservative look silly or stupid, does that mean it's actually true and the conservative in question really is silly and/or stupid?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @05:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @05:24PM (#431347)

      Well, it's obvious that they are going to occasionally debunk something that will help conservatives, and likewise might also debunk something that was helping the left. That way useful idiots like yourself can make postings questioning whether they are really biased. Though at least with Snopes it's more subtle than with Politifact.