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posted by martyb on Sunday May 25 2014, @02:30AM   Printer-friendly

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

 
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  • (Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Sunday May 25 2014, @08:29PM

    by BasilBrush (3994) on Sunday May 25 2014, @08:29PM (#47359)

    Gravity. These days called "A Force" I think.

    What causes changes in vertical position?

    If it goes down: Gravity.

    If it goes up: oh, that was Gravity.

    Fallen over? Probably exacerbated by Gravity.

    Unusual lack of ground level helium: likely explained by Gravity.

    50 years of man made satellites not falling? 50 years isn't enough to disprove Gravity.

    So, seriously, what can happen that would disprove the Gravity theory?

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