During times when cold air is dipping very far south and bringing snow to the Sahara Desert, portions of the Arctic will necessarily be warmer than “normal.” The cold air in the Arctic is necessarily being replaced by warmer air from the south, and vice versa.
These are fundamental principles of conservation of mass and energy, which scientists have understood for a very long time. It has nothing to do with carbon dioxide or “global warming.”
Cherry picking one spot in the Arctic is not science.
Wow, we are gonna die, over a sliver of the Arctic being temporarily warmer than usual!
Meanwhile IGNORE the blue to deep Pink colors,as they are a figment of the imagination.
I can’t get myself to ignore the frightening -10°C aquamarine stripe. I don’t even dare to think how horrifying it must be for the cuddly polar bears when the water starts boiling underneath the ice and the Arctic is screaming in pain.
http://nbs.net/the-arctic-is-screaming-a-trillion-dollar-problem
Darn those pollie bears are skinny !!!
What a feast for them. Whale! They go after the blubber first be it on a seal or whale. I wonder if that was from the remainders of an Inuit hunt?
Thos bears look like the Beufort Sea population, feeding on Bowhead whale carcasses left by local hunters…
They didn’t use to hang around those carcasses on the dry land until recently, but now due to the frequent occasions on which Beaufort ice retreats far from land, they aren’t out on it hunting seals.
You just posted a clear example of climate change impacting polar bears…
You might look also at Svalbard and Kongsoya, denning areas for a large part of the Barents Sea bear population which have not this winter had any sea ice whatever, meaning femal polar bears have not been able to reach their denning ares… this will impact future populations.
You might look too at the month late freeze of Hudson Bay, which meant hungry, thin bears waiting on the ice arrival…
Oh dear, still worried about the pollie bears are you.
Off you go, go and cuddle them.
Pollie bears lived through the Holocene, when there was often zero summer sea ice and much less winter sea ice.
So take your thumb out of your mouth, and DON’T PANIC, little child.
There is no evidence the general Population of Polar bears is suffering and in fact a great deal of data that indicates that contrary to the now decades old claims of their eventual demise, they are thriving in most locals.
“As polar bear populations fail to decline with sea ice, message of doom intensifies”
https://polarbearscience.com/2016/12/21/as-polar-bear-populations-fail-to-decline-with-sea-ice-message-of-doom-intensifies/
“New paper shows no harm from more time on land for S. Beaufort polar bears”
https://polarbearscience.com/2016/06/13/new-paper-shows-no-harm-from-more-time-on-land-for-s-beaufort-polar-bears/
Besides anyone that accepts the meme that warming threatens Polar Bears without answering the question of how they survived much warmer periods in earths history in the past is a moron.
Another evidence on how ignorant Griffy boy is,since Polar Bears eats very little during the winter,as they can’t get at the Seals through the thick ice.
They eat to fatten up in the Springtime/early Summer,when the ice thins to where the Seals can make breathing holes,allowing Polar’s to get at them.
Polar bears out on the sea ice eat few seals in summer and early fall
https://polarbearscience.com/2015/02/09/polar-bears-out-on-the-sea-ice-eat-few-seals-in-summer-and-early-fall/
The fundamental principles of conservation were abandoned by Alarmists and Luke warmers a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away…
If humans are making the world warmer (and only by a few degrees globally) it is unbelievable that people are arguing for a cold miserable heavily taxed existence.
D’ooooh!! ;)
As you know I’m keen on the polar regions, keen on scientists, and sometimes have a bone to pick with Tony or two on points raised on this blog. I do appreciate his contuing blogging on the matter, allowing me to disagree and his long time spent looking at these regions for the last few years.
I do heartily agree with this post. Short scale air mass movements should not be painted with any AGW brush. On the other hand short term changes that might indicate non AGW should also be cast aside.
The polar regions are a non-trivial problem.
It’s worth watching though, better than watching (white) paint dry …..
Andy
Just remember CLIMATE is at an absolute minimum 60 years (one PDO/AMO cycle) and more likely 90 or 200 years.
I know this! The UK was faced with powerful winds from the West and tightly moving North. The remains of storm-something.
I wondered if anyone would pick up on it.
Andy, so called ‘pressure systems’ form and the differences between pressure moves the atmosphere around, it’s called ‘circulation’ and within this ‘circulation’ currents are formed, these currents and the circulation as a whole is how the system loses energy and it results in the system going back to an equilibrium.
If the Arctic is cold (this is where temperature becomes interesting) it produces a system where the expansion and contraction of pressure releasing energy causes currents to flow. Basically cold weather systems can draw in currents and release more energy than usual… interestingly this happens the other way around to cause hurricanes.
The important fact is that all systems will lose energy…
Atmospheric CO2 absorbs and emits a wavelength of energy which is flooded on Earth, it has no interaction with the pressure systems that occur.
CO2 is not an independent source of energy floating around causing havoc, in scientific terms of radiation, on a scale of 0 to 10 CO2 is inert.
CO2 does not increase the energy of any wavelength.
To give you a perfect example on how wrong alarmists and Luke warmers are about CO2, imagine you’re in a white room and there’s an intense blue light and the whole room is glowing blue, you reach into your pocket and pull out a small torch, this torch happens to shine with the same blue light, what will happen when to turn it on??
*you
This reports on some guys who ‘picked up on it’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/26/major-flooding-in-uk-now-likely-every-year-warns-lead-climate-adviser-storm-desmond
“Major flooding in UK now likely every year, warns lead climate adviser”
Only one year in the last 17 without exceptional storm and flood activity not seen in the 20th century in the UK…
Yes, and snow is a thing of the past. Zzzzzzzzz…..
Fog in England! Flights cancelled! Travel chaos! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
Important safety tip, that.
Yes, it had to be said, Steve.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ZOKDmorj0
Major flooding! Southern Rail strike! Every year!
Paul Homewood has this myth covered:
The National Trust’s Climate Myths
December 29, 2016
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/the-national-trusts-climate-myths/
Come on RAH! Don’t let facts get in the way of a great scam. Be like Griff, and believe everything the MSM poops out.
I’m sorry gator. I guess we’re not descendants of dung beetles like so many of those that propagate the scam apparently are.
Grriffy
STILL does not understand the word “Conservation”
Griff,you are unable to look up past history of flooding in England:
1928 great flood
1287 St Lucia flood
1607 Channel flood
1770 Flooding storms
1852 & 1864 floods
1947 flooding
1952 & 1953 floods
1968 flood
and more…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_in_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
Gruniad.. NEVER correct.. always scamming..
And you just keep falling for it.
Take a big look in the mirror, griff. and say :DOH !”
You do know that cold temps sufficient to bring snow are hardly rare in the Sahara?
It just doesn’t snow because there’s no moisture to produce the appropriate precipitation…
That snow has NOTHING to do with the Sahara being colder lately -it just means it had more atmospheric moisture (a result of more water in the atmosphere due to climate change perhaps?)
poor dear.. you are really struggling to keep the AGW scam going, aren’t you petal !!
a result of more water in the atmosphere due to climate change perhaps?
Nope.
You are truly ignorant,Griff.
The IPCC has stated there would be LESS snow and more rain/freezing rain into the future,plus it is supposed to get a lot warmer since 1990.
Yet we are getting snow in places that normally don’t see any for many years at a time:
Snow Where? Town on Edge of Sahara Desert Gets Flakes for First Time in 37 Years
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/snow-where-town-edge-sahara-desert-gets-flakes-first-time-n698871
This website has a long list of unusual cold and snow events,from today into the past.
https://www.iceagenow.info/page/2/
At the same time Griff is promoting some Arctic heat wave…
…he has no F’in clue where the cold air went
No it was the sustained cold coupled with a extremely rate storm,that caused it.
Look up Meridional flow,Griffy boy.
(a result of more water in the atmosphere due to climate change perhaps?)…
Griff, at least try to look something up before you post it…
…you look like a total idiot
1922, 1949, 1974……it snowed in the Sahara
Ain Sefra is in northern Algeria, that’s like saying it snowed in Georgia
Griff, you do know your decision to write stupid things is a choice, don’t you?
It doesn’t have to be that way.
Good advice CW. And Dean Wormer agrees…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkoPq5AOCOA
Oh, the stupid! It burns:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2016/12/31/cbs-time-editor-cheer-eco-bureaucrats-undermining-trump-team