On Christmas Eve, I predicted the following:
No matter that it involves extreme cold temperatures; the climate crisis fanatics have their pseudoscientific theories to explain why exceptionally cold air can find its way south because of so called Arctic Amplification (accelerated warming of the Arctic regions) affecting the configuration of the Jet Stream in mid-latitudes. I’m almost certain that they will invoke those theories very soon and add to them by claiming that global warming was responsible for the ‘unprecedented’ scale and ferocity of this particular winter storm.
I expect something like ‘Bomb Cyclones Becoming More Deadly Due To Global Warming’, or similar very soon.
This was published in The Hill yesterday:
Atmospheric rivers and bomb cyclones are becoming increasingly frequent and intense parts of the North American meteorological landscape. Atmospheric rivers can cause enormous flooding events across the country. Bomb cyclones can combine hurricane conditions with Arctic cold to produce enormous personal risk from exposure to potentially deadly cold. Sometimes they occur at the same place at the same time. When that happens, as in December of 2022, they complement each other — arguably producing combined impacts that are greater than the sum of their singular impacts taken one at a time in isolation.
The undeniable increase in frequency and intensity of one or the other or both of these extreme meteorological extremes are, at very least, perfectly compatible with projections of climate change driven by our warming our planet — especially when the North American experience is considered in a global context that includes thousands of record high temperature reading across Europe at the very same time. Whatever explains data from these events must be global is scope.
Add the European heat wave to the equation and it is clear that whatever is causing these extremes must be explained in terms of a continental phenomenon — something like the jet stream.
The common thread is that a weakening of the jet stream that has been caused by the exaggerated warming of the Arctic in comparison with the modest increases in temperatures across the tropics. The diminishing temperature difference from pole to equator is a signature of global warming.
LOL. Gary Yohe, PhD (Economics & Environmental Studies) even manages to give his ‘expert’ opinion on the European winter heatwave which happened at ‘the very same time’ (one week later). Also, ‘extreme meteorological extremes’. What is that? Must be a highly technical term used only by Economics Professors when explaining weather events for the benefit of we, the Proles.
No, I didn’t read the tea leaves (I couldn’t - they were all hidden inside teabags!) but I did correctly guess exactly what these idiots would do, and that’s not very difficult, once you know their modus operandi.
I think the real issue is that Hollywood, only approves of some tropes and motifs, giving the scriptwriters very limited room to manoeuvre. Nothing is based on or in reality. It's all computer generated scenic output, and when no one is enthused any more, the solution to waning attentions is that we need more of the same, just bigger! Hyper saturated with an increasing lack of polish. These people have no imagination because the Newspeak vocabulary constrains them. Inevitably the script produces only a stinking turd recycled over and over and over again by a generation of talentless NPCs. When ideology rules over merit, it is nigh on impossible to have enough polish for the volume of turd being produced.
Replace 'Hollywood' with Covid or with the Climate debate. It's just all so, well...predictable.
Seems apt to write this on a hot early September day that was and still is disgustingly humid. I'm not a fan. Of course the Jetstream is involved. The classic omega block is slowly drifting further east. As Jaime and I have discussed and 'predicted' ad nauseum; Blocking + meridional Jetstream = weather. Applies in most places, in most years of late, as it has in the past.
Aha you say what is this Jetstream sorcery? 🤔 Could the ancients from the mid twentieth century have known of such things with their primitive, fowl entrail technology? 🤔 How could they possibly have observed such things with their own eyes when we know that due to [insert current talking point] nothing like today ever happened before. It's worser weather and it's only going to get worser and worser! You have taken an ultra-hip Communist Doom Goblin's future! 😭 [insert current flag or symbol].
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Perhaps they are smoking the tea leaves....