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Warming Arctic May Be Causing Jet Stream Lose Its Way
2014-02-16 16:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Mark Twain once said: "If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes." He was making an unknowing reference to the jet stream, which drives the weather over North America and Europe like a high-altitude conveyor belt. But increasingly, the jet stream is taking a more circuitous route over the northern latitudes, meaning weather systems hang around longer than they used to. And, a warming Arctic is probably to blame, says Jennifer Francis, a professor at Rutgers University's...
Rapidly warming Arctic may be causing polar-vortex winter
2014-02-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: The rapidly warming Arctic may be behind persistent weather patterns half a world away, including our polar-vortex winter, the U.K.s relentless rain, and droughts in the American southwest, according to a controversial new theory. Persistent weather isnt just annoying, as the months-long, life-numbing chill has been. It can also be destructive. If it doesnt rain for a few days, no big deal. But if it goes on for weeks, it becomes a big deal, said Jennifer Francis, a Rutgers University...
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If there is global warming this is what it could look like in Britain
2014-02-14 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: It is an all too familiar sight these days as Father Thames reclaims his ancient sovereignty over his flood plain. A street, in Oxford, has become a river, banked by sodden suburban homes. Its inhabitants have taken to canoes instead of cars. But this time there is something else: people are holding a banner: "Can we talk about climate change now?' Well, I guess they can. At first, the possibility that global warming might have something to do with the extraordinary weather -- which has dumped...
MP Graham Stringer and CNN Crossfire get the 97% consensus on human-caused global warming wrong | Dana N
2014-02-14 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Contrarians who think they're part of the 97 percent hold fringe views consistent with the 23 percent scientific minority Share Tweet this Email MP Graham Stringer doesn't understand the 97 percent expert consensus on human-caused global warming. Photograph: Christopher Thomond In May 2013, my Skeptical Science colleagues and I published a paper showing that of peer-reviewed climate publications over the past 20 years that take a position on the cause of global warming, 97 percent agree that...
United Kingdom: Experts warn global warming is making for volatile weather picture
2014-02-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The tumultuous winter weather of the past few weeks could well become the "new normal" for us, a climate change expert has warned. Queen's University academic Dr John Barry said that the "abnormal, more extreme" weather events experienced this winter would become more frequent in the future. The cluster of storms that has battered Northern Ireland for weeks, along with the rest of the British Isles, has taken everyone by surprise. "We cannot conclusively say there is a 100% connection between...
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