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.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 22 2016, @09:16AM
The "Medieval Warm Period" was probably limited to just Europe. It was not global.
Unless, of course, it was global. Then it wouldn't be probably limited to just Europe. That's the problem with assertions. It's great when they're right. But they don't need to be right.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @05:36PM
I think you're both right.
But I'm not sure.