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Title    Global Warming Possible Cause of Cold 2014 Winter
Date    Sunday May 25 2014, @02:30AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/05/25/0213200

AnonTechie writes:

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

Links

  1. "Perspective piece" - http://phys.org/news/2014-05-climate-scientist-extremely-cold-winter.html

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