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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: 2) by marcello_dl on Sunday May 25 2014, @09:20PM
Yes, one of the warmest winter in 40 years in Italy too. Except that the few latest summers have been unusually cold and this could still be from AGW. Or solar cyles, or whatever.
Anyway I am in deep suspicion of a system that proposes to fight C02 levels with taxes, while at the same time helping spread pollution (there would not be illegal waste dumpsters if you actually paid the price for disposing of an item with the item itself, and it would make the economy resemble normality again).
Jeez, recall when the bees colonies collapsed and the system waits years before saying "Uh maybe it's those newfangled things we spray on crops". Or what about nuclear waste, treated with the same attention? Is AGW a way to look busy for the environment?
After all, a polluted world where therapies become essential for survival is a very desirable outcome for control freaks. Who controls the system providing clean food and therapies is your new master. Orwell's 1984 is the convoluted dream of a rookie in comparison.