Originally posted by lao tzu
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And piglet ...
Troll better.
In the earlier WaPo article, I quoted ...
For the record, I'm not Dino Grandoni, I don't write for the Washington Post, and there was no suggestion that the anomalies balanced.
This was just a tongue in cheek poke at taoist, who stated earlier that cold temperatures in the Eastern US were balanced by sweltering temperatures out West.
Troll better.
In the earlier WaPo article, I quoted ...
Right now, the jet stream is crashing south in the eastern half of the continent while surging northward in the west half. That phenomenon, called the North American Winter Dipole, is strangely enough simultaneously responsible for freezing temperatures in the East and the roasting temperatures in the West, which are fueling recent forest fires in California.
For the record, I'm not Dino Grandoni, I don't write for the Washington Post, and there was no suggestion that the anomalies balanced.
For the record, you quoted it, and the implication was that the anomalies balanced. If you quote something without qualification, I naturally assume you agree with it.
Even on average, it's wicked cold in North America.
And on average, popular science writers muff the science.
Using a large single-model ensemble of climate simulations, we show that the observed positive trend in the warm-West/cool-East events is attributable to historical anthropogenic emissions including greenhouse gases, but that the co-occurrence of extreme western warmth and eastern cold will likely decrease in the future as winter temperatures warm dramatically across the continent, thereby reducing the occurrence of severely cold conditions in the East.
If this research holds up, dipole frequencies will increase, creating "polar vortexes" more often. But it's a phenomena that will fade over time. Still, the east coast should get ready for nasty winters for a while.
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