The Washington Post
"Like many of my colleagues in the climate dynamics community, I am not
convinced that this winter’s extreme cold lies outside the range of
internally generated variability of the climate system or that it was
exacerbated by the recent reduction of summer Arctic sea ice coverage.
The evidence linking Arctic amplification to the behavior of the
wintertime polar vortex is not strong and it is not well supported by
independent, peer-reviewed studies. I expressed similar reservations 50
years ago when my father asked me whether I thought that nuclear weapons
tests were changing the weather."
Extreme weather is still . . . weather. Global warming is . . . well . . . global. The US cold weather involves about 1% of the planet surface area.
ReplyDeleteDiscover the cause of the warming, the end of it, why temperatures are headed down and what to expect.
There are only two primary drivers of average global temperatures. They very accurately explain the reported up and down measurements since before 1900 with R2>0.9 and provide credible estimates back to the low temperatures of the Little Ice Age (1610).
CO2 change is NOT one of the drivers.
The drivers are given at
http://agwunveiled.blogspot.com/