Homer-Dixon cites new research by leading Arctic climate scientist James Overland of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Overland found that last winter heat released in the fall from the Arctic’s large expanse of open water helped create bulges of high-pressure air over the Arctic that destabilized the polar vortex. The jet streams broke into disconnected segments, many travelling north to south pulling bitterly cold air into North America, Europe and eastern China.
This change in wind directions is called the Warm ArcticCold Continents climate pattern, says Overland. The jet-stream breakdown last winter was the most extreme in 145 years of records. He said loss of sea ice is certainly not the whole story behind cold mid-latitude winters, but a constant push in that direction.
Whether the same thing is happening this winter is not yet known, but Homer-Dixon reports the jet stream maps for the northern hemisphere in late November show nothing resembling a typical polar vortex. “Instead, the jet streams were broken into discontinuous bits, pieces, loops and circles, with many north-to-south flows over North America and Eurasia.”
Perhaps this kind of strangeness is why once scientist calls climate change “global weirdness” rather than global warming.
According to James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), global temperature is rising as fast during the past decade as in the prior two decades, despite year-to-year fluctuations associated with the El Niño-La Niña cycle of tropical ocean temperature.
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Claims like this display the desperation they are feeling!
However I do believe the researcher lost any link he may have had with reality and historical records. Of course the satellite records from 140 years ago were a bit coarser in resolution that what we have from the last couple of years!
With province-sized pixels….I would say so!
lmao!!!!!! ahahahahahahahhaahhaaha………
Well, “Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”—-Cotton
Hello Steve. I ran the WFT graph for a much shorter interval and noticed that there are no 2011 data points yet. This means the decline trend shown in your graph will become steeper once the 2011 data is included at WFT.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2010/to:2011/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2010/trend:2011
Are you familiar with the HadCRUT paper in 2009 that indicated that the IPCC models would be false at the 95% level if the ENSO adjusted temperature was flat for a 15 year period? HadCRUT scientists wrote:
“Near-zero and even negative trends are common for intervals of a decade or less in the simulations, due to the model’s internal climate variability. The simulations rule out (at the 95% level) zero trends for intervals of 15 yr or more, suggesting that an observed absence of warming of this duration is needed to create a discrepancy with the expected
present-day warming rate.”
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/global_temperatures_09.pdf
2010 marks the 13th year where Hadcrut shows little or no warming. It looks like 2011 will be cooler than the 13 year trend and I doubt 2012 will yield an anomaly of .72C degrees. I’m sure this report will disappear soon as it is the only parameter of falsification for the IPCC models that I have been able to find in the public domain.
“The jet-stream breakdown last winter was the most extreme in 145 years of records” Let me get this straight. They’ve been studying the jet-stream for 145 years??? When did they first ‘discover’ the “jet” stream? What were they studying before 1866? The Balloon-stream? This is so shoddy as to be laughable, if it weren’t so damn serious.
Mike, Overland being a typical numbnuts is too stupid to know the difference between “discovered” and “studied”. There are no “records” back that far.
EPA, NASA, GISS, NOAA — All of the loons who pass for ‘Leading’ Scientists in these Federal organizations need to have ther butts dragged before Congress when they make such asinine comments.
Be proud Goddard. It’s now obvious Overland and his band of merry idiots are reading your blog and learning new words in the process. 🙂
If Hansen says “rising as fast during the past decade as in the prior two decades”…
then he’s admitting there has been no warming
Wasn’t the term “warmcold” supposed to be “our” joke? Now that term has officially been pirated by NOAA!! It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry.
lol, me too! I’m certain, the term in this context, was originated here as a connotation to the Orwellian nature of climate science specifically regarding the explanation of this dynamic.
Sadly, so far, the earliest reference I can find is here, http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/lack-of-sea-ice-causes-excess-sea-ice/
But notice how Mike is writing to me, he states, “It’s that warmcold dynamic at work.”
This assumes I should know what he meant. I know it was earlier than that, but I’d like to run it down. Is Overland trolling Steve’s blog? I think it would be a hoot if we could make a case for Overland swiping our terminology.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/time-magazine-goes-full-stupid/#comment-25603
So far. This does meet the criteria, but I was remembering it a bit different……….
lol, oic, warm arctic cold continents…….sigh, well ok, NOAA still isn’t quite up to speed with us. We’ll give Overland a chance to catch up.