Mike Mann (Penn State), Jennifer Francis (Rutgers), and Noah Diffenbaugh (Stanford), discuss the recent heat waves around the globe, and how it connects with the jet stream pattern, moderated by Markeya Thomas of Climate Signals.

Read the conversation summary at ClimateSignals.org https://goo.gl/dK9gku

• Latest article on this subject by Mike Mann, published in The Guardian https://goo.gl/p8HfdD
• Further reading: Thermogeddon: When the Earth gets too hot for humans https://barringtonstewart.wordpress.com/thermogeddon-when-the-earth-gets-too-hot-for-humans
• Amplification of Rossby waves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossby_wave#Amplification_of_Rossby_waves
• Polar amplification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_amplification
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