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Even Worse Polar Vortex Excursions Are Likely In Our Future

By Abrupt changes, Arctic Sea Ice, Arctic warming, Drought, Earth systems, Extreme Weather, feedback, Impacts, polar vortex, sea ice, Temperature

  Even Worse Polar Vortex Excursions Are Likely In Our Future It may not be this year, but it may be. These extreme cold outbreaks caused by climate change were generally not supposed to happen according to the models, but the models are understated. Almost all climate change effects are happening generations to a century…

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Texas Winter Forecast: Much Warmer than Normal, With An Above Average Chance of Extreme Cold

By Extreme Weather, polar vortex, Temperature

Texas’ Winter Forecast: Much Warmer than Normal, With An Above Average Chance of Extreme Cold The Electric Reliability Council of Texas tells us that this winter is expected to be warmer to much warmer than normal across the state with an above average chance of extreme cold. One of the remarkable statistics they cite is…

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Climate Change Denial in Government and Media in Central Texas

By climate emergency, Deniers and Delayers, Extreme Weather, Impacts, Myths, polar vortex, Psycho, Strategy, The Unexpected, What we can do

Climate Change Denial in Government and Media in Central Texas Record-breaking ice accumulation struck Austin on January 31-February 2, 2023 leading to the worst ice disaster Austin has ever seen. One would think that this obviously climate change-caused event would warrant acknowledgement of climate change in any reporting, much less an after-action report this report…

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The Texice Disaster, Stories of climate change survival, our current emergency, and new solutions to this existential crisis.

By Abrupt changes, adaptation, Climate Catastrophes, climate emergency, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Earth systems, Extreme Weather, Impacts, in-depth and Popular Press, polar vortex, Solutions, The Unexpected, Winter Weather

Summary: The Texas winter storm disaster was caused by both climate change and poor planning. Climate change is making extreme weather more extreme, and energy generation planning in Texas did not fully take into consideration cascading feedbacks, simultaneous catastrophes, and the extent to which our climate has already created more extreme weather based on warming…

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Climate Change 2017: What Happened and What It Means

By Abrupt changes, Climate Catastrophes, Extreme Weather, Fire, Flooding, Impacts, polar vortex, rainfall, Sea Level Rise, The Unexpected, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Climate Change 2017: What Happened and What It Means By Bruce Melton First posted on Truthout.org, December 30, 2017 How many more billions of dollars in damages will it take? How many more lives? It’s obvious; all the climate extremes we have been experiencing lately are indeed caused by climate change. Our climate is already…

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Trump on Global Warming: What’s so Bad About A Little Warming

By Deniers and Delayers, Extreme Weather, Forest Mortality, Impacts, Myths, polar vortex, Shifting Ecology, Temperature, The Unexpected

We have all heard it before: “What’s so bad about a little warming?”  Several things are at play here. First, it’s winter. It’s far colder in winter than the warming we have experienced. So when it’s winter it’s cold, relative to when it’s not winter. But a little warming can’t be that bad, right?Our global…

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Increasing Extremes and Climate Reform: Hurricane Harvey and the Jet Stream

By Climate Catastrophes, Climate Culture, Extreme Weather, flood, Impacts, polar vortex, rainfall

Increasing Extremes: Hurricane Harvey and the Jet Stream   “We can’t tell if this particular weather event was caused by climate change or not.” This is one of the most dangerous climate science statements in history. Science is based on certainty in statistics. Generally, if there is a 1 in 20 chance, or even a…

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Polar Vortex: February 2015 Temperature Departure

By polar vortex, Temperature

From the National Snow and Ice Data Center Website for March 4, 2015. There were four warm temperature state records set in February but surprisingly, no record cold state temperature records were set. There were 13 near-record cold state temperatures (2nd through 5th coldest) and three near-record warm state records (2nd and 3rd warmest). http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2015/03/possibly-low-in-the-north-definitely-high-in-the-south/…

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