Insidious Stupidity

GLOBAL warming could be making parts of the world colder. Yes, you read that right. Here’s why this is not a crazy thing to say.

There’s a strong outbreak of cold weather across parts of the United States this week. It’s similar in some ways to last year’s so-called polar vortex — that conveyor belt of frigid Arctic air which parked itself on top of large parts of the United States, bringing bitter cold for days.

The air in the Arctic is very cold!

Time magazine did a fair job of explaining all that earlier this year. We paraphrase a little here, but here’s how their theory works in regards to the polar vortex:

1. Sea ice is vanishing from the Arctic, which leaves behind dark open ocean water.

2. That water absorbs more of the heat from the sun than reflective ice.

3. Relatively warmer water is the main reason the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet.

The air in the Arctic is warm, and melting the ice!

4. As the temperature difference between the polar north and more temperate latitudes diminishes, a band of high-level strong winds called the “jet stream” weakens.

5. For want of a more technical description, the jet stream kind of holds all the weather systems in place. Most of the time it keeps the cold stuff north and the warm stuff south.

6. But a weakened jet stream can develop what Time calls “kinks”. Time reported that an unusually large kink in the jet stream was what allowed all that Arctic air to flow much further south than normal during the polar vortex.

The air in the Arctic is very cold!

Climate change: Is global warming making some places colder?

So the Arctic is warm and the ice is melting, but then the warm Arctic air comes south, becomes super cold and forms record ice on the Great Lakes.

It is mind-boggling to me that any human could be this stupid, and still find their way out of the house in the morning.

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21 Responses to Insidious Stupidity

  1. hifast says:

    Since Professor Carl-Gustav Rossby was on the cover of the December 17, 1956 issue of Time magazine, you’d think today’s Time reporters might be able to reach back and give credit where credit is due. Rossby first identified those “kinks” aka planetary waves (now Rossby waves), along with the jet stream and polar front theory. And somehow, all this was rebranded last year as the polar vortex and sold as something new…….

  2. Andy Oz says:

    “It is mind-boggling to me that any human could be this stupid, and still find their way out of the house in the morning.”

    I think most journalists are working from home these days. They probably have lost any memory of the sun. I’m surprised they don’t starve to death, but I guess that might be why home delivery has become so popular.
    🙂

  3. tom0mason says:

    Time magazine is putting hard working comedians out of work with stuff like this. How can they possibly compete?

  4. Sharpshooter says:

    “It is mind-boggling to me that any human could be this stupid, and still find their way out of the house in the morning.”

    Of course they’re NOT leaving the house; it’s too damn cold out there.

  5. Temperatures near the North Pole over the last couple of days. Sea ice is melting?????

    http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/ICEX835100_atmos_recent.html

  6. gator69 says:

    “Time reported that an unusually large kink in the jet stream was what allowed all that Arctic air to flow much further south than normal during the polar vortex.”

    See, TIME actually does own science, and can be cited as an infallible source.

  7. Bloke down the pub says:

    ‘1. Sea ice is vanishing from the Arctic, which leaves behind dark open ocean water.’
    ‘2. That water absorbs more of the heat from the sun than reflective ice.’

    Except that by the time the ice has melted back, the sun has already dropped from it’s maximum elevation and water at a high angle of incidence reflects as much light as ice. Ice also acts as an insulating layer, stopping the sea from losing heat to space, so the more open water there is, the colder the ocean becomes, the opposite of what they are claiming.

    • oeman50 says:

      You got it, Bloke. I like the way that all dark water can absorb non-existent sunlight, the North Pole must be importing the sunlight from the South Pole!

  8. Jason Calley says:

    They say extreme warming causes extreme cold. I say extreme exposure to reputed experts causes extreme stupidity.

  9. Justa Joe says:

    Her we go again. “Bad” weather can only be the fault of humans. Time magazine can guarantee pleasant weather eternally if we only submit to their socialist agenda.

  10. philjourdan says:

    So AGW is going to make us freeze to death – The day after Tomorrow.

  11. northernont says:

    If this is the case then the displaced cold coming further south, should be replaced by warmer air coming into the north, which in turn will expose this displaced warmer air to a more colder environment then it would normally have been exposed to, causing this warmer air to cool more quickly then it normally would, thus the Earth would be losing more heat then absorbing in the northern latitudes. Sounds like they have described the environment one would expect for the conditions required for an ice age. Ever notice how these Polar Vortexes superimposed over the Laurentide Ice Sheet from the Last Glacial Maximum have an uncanny resemblance.

  12. nielszoo says:

    So is this mythical “dark water” covered by the same equations that cover dark matter and dark energy? It appears that “dark water” is capable of making ice without, itself, freezing. Which law of thermodynamics is “dark water” an exception to? (I assume the EPA sued someone and the courts overturned the old laws of thermodynamics allowing warmer “dark water” to take heat away from colder ice causing it to melt.) What makes it “dark”? What is the absorption spectra of this evil “dark water.” Do the Koch Bros. sell “dark water” or did they just invent it, make a bunch, and turn it loose in an unsuspecting world?

  13. DedaEda says:

    We just need a more global warming to keep the planet cool…

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