And the cold weather means people aren’t going to Believe in anthropogenic climate change atmosphere cancer
Snow-covered beaches? Chilly iguanas? They are part of a mysterious ‘hole’ in global warming
Frigid iguanas in Florida. Snowball fights on North Carolina’s beaches. Recent winters have delivered a bitter chill to the Southeast, reinforcing attitudes among some that global warming is a fraud.
But according to a scientific study published this month, the Southeast’s colder winter weather is part of an isolated trend, linked to a more wavy pattern in the jet stream that crosses North America. That dipping jet stream allows artic air to plunge into the Southeast. Scientists call this colder weather a “hole†in overall global warming, or a “warming hole.â€
“What we are looking at is an anomaly,†said Jonathan M. Winter, an assistant professor of geography at Dartmouth College and the principle investigator in the study. “The Southeast is the exception to the rule.â€
Winter and lead author Trevor F. Partridge, a Dartmouth graduate student, say this year’s extreme cold in Southeast could be a product of the warming hole. “It is the same mechanism that causes this bitterly cold air to come down,†said Winter.
What the study does is blame Mankind’s use of fossil fuels and CO2 output for the cold weather dipping down, which apparently started in the 1950’s, when we actually were seeing a cooling pattern, and CO2 was below the “safe” 350ppm
The Southeast’s warming hole has been studied many times before, but the Dartmouth study in Geophysical Research Letters nails down some of its key features. The study concludes the trend started in the late 1950s, and is concentrated in six states — Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Nearby states are also affected, such as east Texas, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina.
And what does this cause?
Either because of coincidence or cooler climes, residents of these states tend to be relatively doubtful that global warming is happening and is largely caused by human activities, according to surveys compiled by Yale and George Mason universities.
It’s rather shocking that cold weather would make people think that anthropogenic climate change is a bunch of mule fritters, eh? The Cult of Climastrology just keeps trotting these types of studies out, when, if they really want to convince us Skeptics, they should practice what they preach in their own lives. They won’t, though.
