Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring on Cold Snaps

Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring […]

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January 21, 2019

Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring on Cold Snaps https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02022018/cold-weather-polar-vortex-jet-stream-explained-global-warming-arctic-ice-climate-change

Temperatures are rising much faster in the Arctic than the global average (“Arctic Amplification”). https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1086714347399700480

Broward County declares cold weather emergency https://news.google.com/?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now! https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1086971499725160448

Climate Denial Crock of the Week “It’s cold. So there’s no Climate Change” (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0JsdSDa_bM

If There’s Climate Change, Why am I Freezing? (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISaFXF9Sxiw

Here is my “official” 3D animation of this year’s stratospheric #PolarVortex split. https://twitter.com/zd1awrence/status/1084935021171924992

Q&A: How is Arctic warming linked to the ‘polar vortex’ and other extreme weather? https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-is-arctic-warming-linked-to-polar-vortext-other-extreme-weather

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