Research published last year found that the stretching of the polar vortex in this way is contributing to extreme weather in the US and that global heating, counterintuitively, could be playing a role in accelerating this process.
Vast winter snowstorms are evidence of global warming. You’re right, it’s not a science, is it, given that it is not refutable by any form of evidence…..
What a coincidence. Proof that murder isn’t the ultimate in dehumanising after all. If snowstorms are really proof of global warming then it’s really just a form of blessed rebirth. So I am a stupid old English retard after all…
We’ve already been told that worbal gloaming will make Britain, or at least Scotland, colder …
Also helps that inconvenient evidence can’t get published.
Huh? the polar vortex has always wobbled, causing “unseasonal” weather inany season..
There’s even a more-or-less predictable pattern to it..
Oh wait…. That doesn’t fit the Narrative, so Smart Journo “reïnterprets” facts into Science™, and adds a dash of TDR. Trebles all around!! We showed ’em!!
The “science” of “climate change” is basically a whole load of Barnum statements 🙁
Oh, FFS, it’s not ‘extreme weather’. It’s slightly -colder-than-average in many places, and many places that don’t often see precipitation at this time of year are seeing it now. But it’s no colder, and no snowier, than it has been at many times in the recent past.
As I sit at my kitchen table before dawn in Michigan, it’s -12°F outside with about 8″ of snow on the ground. But this is not an Armageddon SnowHell IceDisaster – it’s a crisp winter morning. Compared to many I’ve dealt with over decades, it’s maybe a bit unusual but it’s Nothing Special. Same goes for most of the rest of the country, where people may need to put off driving to Walmart until tomorrow, or maybe even Monday! I checked the outage database and there’s no serious power problems anywhere. This is not a unique disaster – it’s normal, has been normal forever, and will be normal forever. The ‘disaster’, such as it is, is that so many people appear to be completely-unprepared to deal with something less than 1 SD from the norm.
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Gamecock is sitting in his South Carolina home making a list of what he needs to get done today before the Big Ice Storm tonight and tomorrow. We are forecast to get 0.8 inches of ice. Or a quarter inch. Or half inch. Depends on when he turns the TV on.
He thought about renting a car and driving down to Daytona. Forecast moderated, so he decided to stick it out.
When he was younger, sometimes the polar jet stream would dip down into US in winter, and bring really cold weather. Climate changed it into the polar ‘vortex,’ which is way more powerful than the jet stream ever was.
See, you don’t even have to be a scientist to know that established climate science should be mocked.
Actually, Trump is wrong. It’s not proof. But it’s a fun joke. Guardian doesn’t set about to prove the joke wrong (why even bother?), they set out to judge it against accepted pseudoscience. Hence, their audience is those who embrace the pseudoscience. Therefore, the article is performative. Should have disclaimer: “This article is for entertainment purposes only.”
“If you have to explain a joke . . . .”
TDS has brought us 10 years of commies explaining Trump’s jokes. Trump knows that, and trolls them all the time. Which makes Guardian et al cringe worthy.
“If you have to explain a joke, and you don’t even realize it’s a joke.”
Talking of The Guardian, I suddenly realised this afternoon doing some shopping that I haven’t seen The Groan on newsstands for ages. I usually glance at the front pages of all the papers before going to the tills, just to see what who is covering (skinny bird shouts at other skinny bird vs gold prices stable). I realised today that “there’s no Guardian” has floated at the back of my mind the last dozen or so times I’ve done this.
GameC, do us a favour, stop talking about yourself in the third person, it was annoying in Boardwalk Empire and many years later is just as pretentious.
Went outside last night, it was -27f. (-33c). Now at noon, it’s -8f. (-22c).
Please please please give me some of that global warming. I would much rather die from heat than from cold.
Exactly where are you, Bobby?
At 6:30 am here in Brisbane, it’s comfortable lounging around with your shirt off.
Of course at noon it can be quite hot. But my sensible neighbours all have air conditioning. I’m still dithering.
Research conveniently published last year…
Boganboy has his shirt off in Brisbane. Here in Dunedin New Zealand we have the heating on because it is pissing down and cold as it has been for the last few days In the North Island, the rain has been so heavy that there are landslips killing people .. The southern summer that is not happening
Coldest temperature recorded in Antarctica at this time of the year since 1980 something.
Also, global temperature (not that such a thing exists outside of a computer model) is 0.3 of a degree down on the 30 year average. But it’s all natural.
Of course, if the global temperature went up by 0.3 of a degree it would be mans fault…