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Explained: How Can We Have Global Warming and Extreme Cold Weather?
February 1, 2019
Winter storms don’t prove that global warming isn’t happening. https://t.co/LDqfq4JH9n pic.twitter.com/ndmLD637Cb
— NOAA Climate.gov (@NOAAClimate) January 29, 2019
Every time it snows on the US east coast, there’s at least one politician or pundit who trots out the old chestnut: “Global warming?! Global cooling, more like!” This episode tackles that myth + explains how climate change affects the polar vortex, too: https://t.co/hX7yep8ZTE pic.twitter.com/907HQ7ohr5
— Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) January 30, 2019
In Chicago, “the risk of almost instant frostbite.”
In Australia, the kindergartner who “will hardly have seen rain in her lifetime.” Welcome to our age of extremes, by @SominiSengupta https://t.co/cMUhcQdeCT — Jesse Pesta (@JessePesta) January 30, 2019
Just a reminder. US is 2% of Earth. Australia is record hot. Earth Monday was 0.72 dF (0.4 dC) warmer than 1979-2000 average. Weather is not climate. Weather is fleeting, varies in locales. Climate is long-term, large area. Weather=mood; climate=personality. pic.twitter.com/83wavVonfe
— seth borenstein (@borenbears) January 29, 2019
Not only does cold not disprove global warming, but it doesn’t even get cold anymore. A short joint-venture with @WeatherSullivan https://t.co/XeExys4SXE pic.twitter.com/NohY888FBa
— Eric Roston (@eroston) January 31, 2019
Q&A: How is #Arctic warming linked to the ‘#PolarVortex’ and other extreme weather? via @CarbonBrief https://t.co/S43TjdiIMz pic.twitter.com/Vtkfs3vRTO
— EGU (@EuroGeosciences) February 1, 2019
In January, there were 651 record daily highs across the U.S., compared to 321 record daily lows — a roughly 2-to-1 ratio.
Globally, the ratio of record highs to lows was about 20-to-1, with new all-time records in Namibia, Chile, and Reunion Island.https://t.co/bfyyrLAn9u — Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) February 1, 2019
The polar vortex betrays a difficult-to-perceive change in how U.S. winters unfold: It’s this cold much less often, which makes the freeze bite much more deeply pic.twitter.com/fsZuRbq30s
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) February 1, 2019
I created a video that tries to explain the connection between #Arctic change, the #PolarVortex and severe #winter weather including #snow and #cold. The occasion of #PolarVortex2019 seems like a good time to release: https://t.co/DD0Gj6JEAw
— Judah Cohen (@judah47) January 29, 2019
It is dangerously cold in central and eastern US. Yet the planet overall is still 0.3°C warmer than “normal” – and that “normal” is ~0.6°C warmer than pre-industrial times. pic.twitter.com/HCOD7aTuCL
— Simon Donner (@simondonner) January 29, 2019
Trump always dismisses climate change when it’s cold. Not so fast, experts say. https://t.co/N3OAihdVGp
— Post Green (@postgreen) January 29, 2019
You know what? No. Explaining weather to Trump is like trying to explain grammar to a potato, the reasoning might be sound but the spud doesn’t understand English. https://t.co/gc66YyD9Ts
— grist (@grist) February 2, 2019
Think this #polarvortex was cold? It should have been colder. The clear #globalwarming signal is in decline, warming of such events, @NOAA's Ken Kunkel, #NCA4, @EPA, other studies show. My @natgeo story: https://t.co/F3en34nFnr 1/ pic.twitter.com/FrMxb9Y8w6
— Andrew Revkin (@Revkin) February 2, 2019
