[Vision2020] Looks like "The Day after Tomorrow" may be closerthen we thought

[lfalen]

Some where I read a report similar to this. The date was 1922.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Ted Moffett starbliss at gmail.com
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:59:45 -0800
To: Dave tiedye at turbonet.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Looks like "The Day after Tomorrow" may be closerthen we thought

> Due to polar amplification, which has been predicted for decades by
> climate scientists (
> http://courses.eas.ualberta.ca/eas570/arctic_amplification.pdf ), the
> Arctic should be and is undergoing the most warming, of any area on
> Earth, from anthropogenic climate forcings.  This warming of the
> Arctic and significant loss of sea ice is a major verification of one
> of the main predictions of climate models regarding the radiative
> forcing of human CO2 emissions.
> 
> So that the Arctic is unusually warm (relative to historical norms for
> each area) compared to lower latitudes is not surprising.  Consider
> the data below at bottom from Dr. Jeff Master's Wunderground
> climate/weather website, from about a year ago, revealing that
> Greenland and Alaska were warmer than Florida during a period last
> winter.
> 
> That Arctic air mass is shifting into lower latitudes during winter
> more than usual may or may not be a long term shift in weather
> patterns in the Northern Hemisphere.  Consider previous winters from
> decades ago when Niagara Falls froze in 1911 and ice was present in
> the Mississippi River as far south as Louisiana as Atlanta hit minus 9
> F. in 1899 ( source with photos of frozen Niagara Falls in 1911, NASA
> climate scientist James Hansen et. al.:
> http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2010/20100127_TemperatureFinal.pdf )
> 
> But it is reasonable to consider that as the Arctic warms (both
> atmosphere and ocean), and sea ice declines, over a period of mere
> decades, the more stable weather patterns of the past will alter:
> 
> http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1409
> 
> >From website above:
> 
> Colder in Florida than Alaska and Greenland
> 
> The sharp kink in the jet stream has brought record warm temperatures
> to a few stations in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest this week,
> making much of coastal Alaska warmer than Florida. Cold Bay, Alaska,
> set a record high yesterday of 47°F, after recording a low temperature
> of 30°F. This made Cold Bay warmer than Pensacola, Florida, which had
> a high of 47°F and a low of 24°F. In fact, most of Florida--including
> Jacksonville, Tampa, Melbourne, and Tallahassee--recorded lows at or
> below the 27°F low recorded in Anchorage, Alaska yesterday. The jet
> stream kink has also brought temperatures more than 30°F above average
> to Greenland. The temperature in Narsarsuaq, Greenland at 10am EST
> today was 46°F, far warmer than most of Florida.
> ------------------------------------------
> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
> 
> On 1/24/11, Dave <tiedye at turbonet.com> wrote:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/science/earth/25cold.html?_r=1&hp
> > <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/science/earth/25cold.html?_r=1&hp>
> >
> > Dave
> >
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