Paul Beckwith: Climate Change Deep Freeze (Polar Vortex, Jet Stream and Sea Ice)
Paul Beckwith, discusses the severity and extent of the North American deep freeze and how it results from fractured jet streams due to climate change.
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Looks as if the transition to a new climate state is now underway. Abrupt climate change is not out of the realm of possibilities. Paul mentions methane making its appearance in all of this right at the end. If huge amounts of this super GHG start to show up and it already is as the Arctic tundra melts and worse the methane hydrates on the Arctic sea start to boil off its curtains for mankind.
It’s amazing how our impact on the planet can cause such terrifying and destructive weather patterns to emerge.
Manmade CO2 production is about half a percent of the total global output,
most of which is produced naturally through volcanic eruptions, etc. I
think that the changes we are seeing in the weather is due to the cycle of
the sun, and not anything earth related.
NO MYSTERY!
Explains a lot, even for those who still don’t believe the north pole is melting away.
Wonder what 5 to 10 years will be like?….the film ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ comes to mind…
OK, it may be a serious situation building up, but we need to look realistically at our options. Pluvinergy shows how we can take heat directly out of the atmosphere and cycle it out into space, the process forms an engine, which can supply all the energy civilization will ever need. It also produces freshwater at agricultural levels. If people learn about it, science will expedite its peer review process so that the system can be built within 10 years, and fully deployed in another 30. That will be in time to save most species on earth, including human beings.
good explanation, thanks
Paul, please explain how the polar vortex jetstream in the tropopause is
powered or caused by the temperature difference between the warm mid
latitude atmosphere and the high arctic latitude atmosphere, and why the
warming is 3-4 degrees C higher in the arctic, reducing the temperature
contrast between north and south and how that leads to stalling of the
polar vortex, and why cold masses then migrate south from the arctic and
warm air masses from south travel north to the arctic?
from 1979 to 2014.. you call that a weather map…