Stefan Rahmstorf tweets the recent announcement about record planetary warmth, but the stubborn cold patch identified in his recent paper (co-authors Mike Mann and Jason Box..) still stands out prominently.
I made a video last spring illustrating the key findings.
HaHa Got ya! So the small coldest record spot is PROOF that Global Warming is a hoax!!! That and a snowball in Congress.
New England will be a good place to live long term when one considers how the climate will be affected in localized sections of the globe.
pack an umbrella
http://nca2009.globalchange.gov/sites/default/files/images/2_National_Page32Top-e.preview-380.png
I had similar thoughts. And pack a snow shovel for the winter “fun”—-remember Boston’s winter?—-that cold air is going to be meeting that warm wet air over New England for a long time to come. Andrew may have the right idea IF we’re looking decades out, but New England is likely to be a “localized mess” for a while.
(Of course Andrew lives in CA, so maybe he’d like rain and snow. I’m tired of the “new normal here in NO VA, that part that bulges up into the 67% zone on the map.)
The current “normal” in California is getting pretty uncomfortable these days. We are in the first stages of water use reductions (no lawn watering, car washing, etc), I have to prepare for a water meter on my well and over 1,000 houses have been incinerated in the adjacent, Lake, county within the last two months.
I’d like some rain and snow right now.
overall, New England is going to be hotter and significantly drier by 2100.
Dr. James Hansen and Dr. Makiko Sato (at the Columbia University Earth Institute) have also noticed the AMOC changes.
They add some strong predictions to their paper ” “Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise & Superstorms” as suggested by S.L Marcus.
Serious and sobering material . . .
“Cooling of the Southern Ocean and North Atlantic results mainly from the stratification effect of freshwater. Lesser density of fresh meltwater, compared to salty ocean water, reduces sinking of surface water to the deep ocean. Reduced Antarctic Bottom Water formation reduces the amount of relatively warm deep water rising to the surface, where it increases heat flux to the atmosphere and space. Instead heat is kept at depth, raising deep water temperature and melting ice shelves (see diagram in Fig. 22 of our paper).”
http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2015/09/21/predictions-implicit-in-ice-melt-paper-and-global-implications/
The planets systems are a lot more sensitive than people believe. http://www.climateoutcome.kiwi.nz/latest-posts–news/gulf-stream-slowing-and-greenland-melting