They Made A Movie About This<\/p>\n
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\nAs a species, we are not anywhere close to fully understanding the Earth\u2019s incredibly complex climate system \u2014 or the extent of the role we humans play in it. And we certainly are not at a place where we need to scrap the efficient fossil-fuel energies that we know work in favor of \u201cgreen energy\u201d technologies that are not currently up to the task.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, Texas is currently finding that out the hard way<\/p>\n
Severe Winter Weather Across Southern United States Blamed on Global Warming<\/a><\/p>\n In their frenzy to blame every bit of unusual weather on climate change (which used to be called global warming), climate alarmists have more than once claimed that the warming Earth can also cause hideous cold weather. Now, the horrendous wintry weather that\u2019s been downing power lines and freezing windmills in Texas is being blamed on \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 global warming.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s example of counterintuitive weather phenomenon comes from MIT climatologist Judah Cohen, who has been quick to attach the wintry weather in the southern United States to global warming. \u201cThe current conditions in Texas are historical, certainly generational,\u201d said Cohen, who is also the director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research. \u201cBut this can\u2019t be hand-waved away as if it\u2019s entirely natural. This is happening not in spite of climate change, it\u2019s in part due to climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n Cohen was one of a slew of authors of a\u00a02019 article<\/a>\u00a0linking a phenomenon known as Polar Amplification to extreme winter weather events. Polar Amplification \u2014 known in the northern hemisphere as Arctic Amplification \u2014 suggests that the polar areas of Earth are warming far quicker than mid-latitude and equatorial regions due to several reasons, a key one being the reported loss of sea ice, as open water reflects sunlight less than sea ice.<\/p>\n In a nutshell, the \u201cout-of-control\u201d warming of the polar regions supposedly causes big swings in the jet stream and also may weaken the so-called polar vortex, which allows extremely cold weather to escape further southward than usual. \u201cThe energy escaping from the jet stream bangs into the polar vortex so it starts to wobble and move all over the place,\u201d Cohen said. \u201cWhere the polar vortex goes, so goes the cold air.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As the article referenced explains: \u201cThe rapid warming of the Arctic coupled with cooling or lack of warming in the midlatitudes has resulted in the diverging of Arctic and midlatitude temperature trends. The pattern of a warm Arctic and cold continents\/Eurasia is the strongest observational evidence that some\u00a0unaccounted for<\/em>\u00a0mechanism has been offsetting greenhouse-gas-forced warming over the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes.\u201d (Emphasis added.)<\/p>\n Translation: Global warming is happening in the polar regions where no one but penguins and polar bears will ever feel it, but not so much where we all currently live.<\/p>\n Also, remember that those \u201cwarmest years on record\u201d climate alarmists are always yammering about are mainly due to temperature readings of the polar regions where almost no one lives.<\/p>\n The \u201cglobal warming equals extreme cold\u201d narrative has been around for a few years now. In 2019, another polar vortex made its way south and caused extreme cold over much of the United States. The same group of scientists were\u00a0pushing the same line<\/a>\u00a0then that they are now.<\/p>\n Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at Woods Hole Research Center \u2014 who is also listed as an author on the 2019 article referenced above \u2014 said at the time: \u201cThis symptom of global warming is counterintuitive for those in the cross-hairs of these extreme cold spells \u2026 but these events provide an excellent opportunity to help the public understand some of the \u2018interesting\u2019 ways that climate change will unfold.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Marlene Kretschmer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research \u2014 also listed as an author of 2019 article referenced above \u2014 also believes that global warming in the Arctic is having a cooling effect on the mid-latitudes. But, at least Dr. Kretschmer and her co-authors concede that the relationship between the warmer Arctic and colder mid-latitudes is murky. In a\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0looking at the phenomenon, Kretschmer and her co-authors admitted as much.<\/p>\n \u201cPrevious studies showed that a weak stratospheric polar vortex can lead to cold-air outbreaks in the midlatitudes, but the exact relationships and mechanisms are unclear. Particularly, it is unclear whether stratospheric variability has contributed to the observed anomalous cooling trends in midlatitude Eurasia.\u201d<\/p>\n One thing that Dr. Francis said back in 2019 rings true. \u201cIt\u2019s a complicated story that involves a hefty dose of chaos and an interplay among multiple influences, so extracting a clear signal of the Arctic\u2019s role is challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n Making such claims also involves ignoring weather history:\u00a0Spacecityweather.com<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 which reports on Houston\u2019s weather \u2014 notes that brutal cold snaps have also happened in 1989, 1983, 1978, 1951, 1940, 1930, 1899, and 1895. Since human-caused global warming was supposed to have begun in the early 1980s (after the global-cooling scare of the 1970s), one wonders how global warming managed to effect the weather before that time.<\/p>\n As a species, we are not anywhere close to fully understanding the Earth\u2019s incredibly complex climate system \u2014 or the extent of the role we humans play in it. And we certainly are not at a place where we need to scrap the efficient fossil-fuel energies that we know work in favor of \u201cgreen energy\u201d technologies that are not currently up to the task.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, Texas is currently finding that out the hard way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" They Made A Movie About This BLUF: As a species, we are not anywhere close to fully understanding the Earth\u2019s incredibly complex climate system \u2014 or the extent of the role we humans play in it. 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