Alaska is being called the poster child (state?) for climate change because things have been so strange there lately. One reason for this is the extreme warm conditions in the North Pacific and associated (probably) changes in the jet stream, as well as overall warming, which has caused coastal Alaska to become a warm place, glaciers to melt, and (in the farther north) sea ice to be less. And now, President Obama has made a trip there and given a big speech.
President Obama’s speech:
More information on the President’s trip here.
Meanwhile, another study cites arctic ice loss as a factor in extreme events.
The new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, advances a growing body of science demonstrating that these record-breaking extremes have not been a pause in the advance of human-driven climate change but a result of it.
The newly published study, led by Jong-Seong Kug of South Korea’s Pohang University of Science and Technology, used climate and weather observations as well as climate change modeling to investigate potential connections between these and other extreme cold winter weather systems over North America and South Asia last winter and historically low levels of summer sea ice in areas of the Arctic Ocean.
I’ve written about this quite a bit before. See:
Linking Weather Extremes to Global Warming
Imperfect Storms: A Controversy In Climate Science
Global Warming and Extreme Weather – #climate #agw
The top of the Earth burns, makes Global Warming Worse
More Research Linking Global Warming To Bad Weather Events
Global Warming Changing Weather in the US Northeast
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1JA34Jy
Alaska is being called the poster child (state?) for climate change because things have been so strange there lately. One reason for this is the extreme warm conditions in the North Pacific and associated (probably) changes in the jet stream, as well as overall warming, which has caused coastal Alaska to become a warm place, glaciers to melt, and (in the farther north) sea ice to be less. And now, President Obama has made a trip there and given a big speech.
President Obama’s speech:
More information on the President’s trip here.
Meanwhile, another study cites arctic ice loss as a factor in extreme events.
The new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, advances a growing body of science demonstrating that these record-breaking extremes have not been a pause in the advance of human-driven climate change but a result of it.
The newly published study, led by Jong-Seong Kug of South Korea’s Pohang University of Science and Technology, used climate and weather observations as well as climate change modeling to investigate potential connections between these and other extreme cold winter weather systems over North America and South Asia last winter and historically low levels of summer sea ice in areas of the Arctic Ocean.
I’ve written about this quite a bit before. See:
Linking Weather Extremes to Global Warming
Imperfect Storms: A Controversy In Climate Science
Global Warming and Extreme Weather – #climate #agw
The top of the Earth burns, makes Global Warming Worse
More Research Linking Global Warming To Bad Weather Events
Global Warming Changing Weather in the US Northeast
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1JA34Jy
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