No shit.
This is for all you northern hemisphere denizens who have been grumbling about your crappy weather lately. Turns out the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice we're seeing these days has influenced the course of the jet stream. That, in turn, has effects on the spring weather in the northern hemisphere. So, the reason you're currently freezing your tits off under a pile of snow is because of global warming. Really.
Next time Cletus starts beating that global warming must be a myth because he's cold, tell him to STFU and learn some science.
Scientists Link Cold Spring to Dramatic Sea Ice LossScientists Link Cold Spring to Dramatic Sea Ice Loss
March 26, 2013
Climate scientists have linked the massive snowstorms and bitter spring weather now being experienced across Britain and large parts of Europe and North America to the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice.
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"The sea ice is going rapidly. It's 80 percent less than it was just 30 years ago. There has been a dramatic loss. This is a symptom of global warming and it contributes to enhanced warming of the Arctic," said Jennifer Francis, research professor with the Rutgers Institute of Coastal and Marine Science.
According to Francis and a growing body of other researchers, the Arctic ice loss adds heat to the ocean and atmosphere which shifts the position of the jet stream – the high-altitude river of air that steers storm systems and governs most weather in northern hemisphere.
"This is what is affecting the jet stream and leading to the extreme weather we are seeing in mid-latitudes," she said. "It allows the cold air from the Arctic to plunge much further south. The pattern can be slow to change because the [southern] wave of the jet stream is getting bigger. It's now at a near record position, so whatever weather you have now is going to stick around," she said.
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The possible links between Arctic sea ice loss and extreme weather were made as the UK's government's outgoing chief scientific adviser Sir John Beddington warned that the world could expect more extremes of weather.
I get really bored whenever I see some clown who thinks that global warming must mean everything everywhere must be hotter all the time.
Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West.
Topic: Sick of snow? Blame global warming.