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Tim Palmer, a climate scientist and professor at the University of Oxford in the U.K., has published a somewhat controversial Perspective piece in the journal Science. In it, he theorizes that heavy thunderstorms in the western tropical Pacific (due to global warming) this past winter caused changes to the flow pattern of the jet stream, which resulted in the "polar vortex" that chilled the northern part of North America for the first four months of 2014. The winter of 2014 was cold in the U.S., of that there was no doubt. Subzero temperatures became the norm and heating bills skyrocketed. At the time, very few who experienced it were blaming it on global warming, but that may very well have been the cause anyway, Palmer suggests--despite the fact that global temperatures haven't been rising lately.
The abstract (and link to paywalled journal article) can be found at: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6186/803
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by xtronics on Sunday May 25 2014, @03:07AM
You will have lost me.
Beta might be annoying - but I'm a lot more interested in computer hardware than politicized science.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Sunday May 25 2014, @12:22PM
I too am tired of politicized science. The trick is to distinguish between science and politicized science, which isn't really science at all. But that isn't always easy.
Merely testing for deviation from one's own biases isn't enough.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Friday May 30 2014, @09:52AM
But Slashdot has climate science stories too. So your threat seems more like an attempt to bully the editors.