Think this polar vortex was cold? It should have been colder.

[the other mike]

A pretty good National Geographic article I stumbled onto...

Now that the latest frigid, deadly Arctic blast is giving way to warmer conditions in the Midwest and Northeast, some clarity is emerging on how to think about cold waves in a warming climate.

An initial blizzard of headlines gave the impression that this week’s cold, driven by the weakening of the “polar vortex”—miles-high winds circling the North Pole—was a monumental event, and some accounts projected worse to come under global warming.

But many climate scientists focused deeply on the response of extreme winter weather in a human-heated climate see a different picture, explaining that data clearly show a long-term trend toward fewer, less widespread and less severe cold snaps of this sort. And the pattern is not limited to the United States.

Those background trends are a far more robust signal of human-driven planetary warming than any recent shifts in the behavior of the vortex.
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Think this polar vortex was cold? It should have been colder.

 

[Crepitus]

In before the usual idiots show up demanding proof.

 

[theHawk]

Oh, more predictions by “climate scientists”.

You warmers just aren’t giving up on this fear mongering are you?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Can you imagine how much colder it would have been if the Arctic wasn't completely ice free since 2005?

 

[Muhammed]

A pretty good National Geographic article I stumbled onto...

Now that the latest frigid, deadly Arctic blast is giving way to warmer conditions in the Midwest and Northeast, some clarity is emerging on how to think about cold waves in a warming climate.

An initial blizzard of headlines gave the impression that this week’s cold, driven by the weakening of the “polar vortex”—miles-high winds circling the North Pole—was a monumental event, and some accounts projected worse to come under global warming.

But many climate scientists focused deeply on the response of extreme winter weather in a human-heated climate see a different picture, explaining that data clearly show a long-term trend toward fewer, less widespread and less severe cold snaps of this sort. And the pattern is not limited to the United States.

Those background trends are a far more robust signal of human-driven planetary warming than any recent shifts in the behavior of the vortex.
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Think this polar vortex was cold? It should have been colder.

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It's simply more ridiculous CAGW scaremongering.

 

[sawyerloggingon]

"It should have been colder". So how cold should it have been exactly? Funny how these AGW pseudo scientists can tell us exactly why climate is currently changing and the precise temperature every weather event should be but they still debate what caused the LIA and don't really know if it's even over of if we may slip back into it.

 

[Muhammed]

In before the usual idiots show up demanding proof.

In other words, you admit in advance that you have no proof nor any conclusive evidence whatsoever, which shows that natural human produced CO2 caused the winter storm.

 

[KissMy]

The 1970's were much colder. In the early 1900's it dropped to -22 here in Missouri. This winter only dropped to -4

 

[TNHarley]

"Human heated climate"