Australian Broadcasting: How Global Warming Causes Extremes

July 7, 2013

Very good explanation of weather extremes worldwide under climate change.

Heads up on this came from Jennifer Francis.

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Sir Charles Says:

July 7, 2013 at 8:51 pm
Arctic ice melt sets stage for severe winters, scientists say

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Sir Charles Says:

July 7, 2013 at 9:07 pm
Arctic warming pushes winter weather further south

Meteorologist Dave Eichorn explains how warming in the Arctic associated with climate change has resulted in colder temperatures and snowy weather much further south in segment two of a meteorologist’s view on climate change.

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MorinMoss Says:

July 7, 2013 at 11:34 pm
And the good news just keeps on coming.

With more salinity in the Atlantic and less in the Pacific, what impact would that have, if any, in the Thermohaline / Ocean Conveyor?

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- Kiwiiano Says:
  
  July 8, 2013 at 10:48 am
  Probably not too much, MM. The Conveyor depends on higher salinity in the Nth Atlantic for the cooling Gulf Stream waters to sink and become the counter current that travels back down the Atlantic, beneath the Southern Indian Ocean, up through the Tasman Sea and ultimately to the Nth Pacific. The worry is that excessive Greenland melting could dilute the Nth Atlantic waters to the point they couldn’t sink into the colder saline below them. As presumably happened when the post ice-age glacial melting dumped vast volumes of fresh water & contributed to the Younger Dryas.
  
  JCL: you sure slobbered a bib-full there!! If what we are seeing now, 2013, with only 0.8°C rise and the assurance that that rise is lagging behind the amount of CO2 already in the atmosphere, we are staring down the muzzle of some seriously wacky weather. I fear the catastrophes will come soon enough, alas. Presumably went we get the next full-blown El Nino
  
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Bill Broughton Says:

July 8, 2013 at 2:37 am
Jennifer francis is a rock starr.

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What I’m Reading, Sunday, July 7, 2013 | Rationally Thinking Out Loud Says:

July 8, 2013 at 2:43 am
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John Christian Lønningdal Says:

July 8, 2013 at 8:28 am
And this is only from 0.8 C warming. Its really hard to imagine the “climate goal” of 2 C warming as a safe level. I’d say 0.8 is already way too much for our society to handle.

I wonder what kind of catastrophe it would take for people to understand this?

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- greenman3610 Says:
  
  July 8, 2013 at 8:37 am
  see jeff goodell’s rolling stone article, “goodbye miami”.
  http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620
  
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Illuminate by Tanya Says:

July 15, 2013 at 5:32 am
Reblogged this on Illuminate.

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Robert A. Vella Says:

July 15, 2013 at 3:14 pm
Reblogged this on The Secular Jurist.

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Dr. Jennifer Francis, Top Climatologists Explain How Global Warming Wrecks the Jet Stream and Amps Up Hydrological Cycle To Cause Dangerous Weather | robertscribbler Says:

July 16, 2013 at 1:15 am
[…] tip to Climate Crocks for the head’s up. As ever, my best wishes and admiration to Dr. Jennifer Francis for her […]

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