Not exact matches
Seems this might hold for larger scale
events, such as the
arctic ice melting (i.e., there would be more
warming in the
arctic ocean in our current times, except some of the «
warming» energy is going into the melting process rather than
warming).
However, I don't agree that Al Gore is sensationalizing hurricanes — what Gore is saying is certainly in the realm of possibilities, and although Gore's general message is dead on (and I do think is being confirmed by
events such as rapid
arctic melting), I don't expect 100 % certainty in his predictions (especially since it seems that the lessening of snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro isn't due to global
warming.
I felt she believed what she was saying but was left with the impression that she was pushing her own theory of
arctic amplification and also the oceans absorbing the recent
warming without any realisation that the statistics of extreme
events appears to contradict much of where she is coming from.
If so, then
arctic temperatures are merely a side effect of
events further south, and this is the wrong place to look for evidence of global
warming.
Yes, we are breaking records in part because of local variability of the weather, in part because we just concluded a
warming trend and in part because we are experiencing a la nina
event / cool pdo as well as a change in the
arctic oscillation and wind patterns.
Alarmists have eventually evolved to crediting
warming with producing greater snowfall, because of increased moisture but the snow
events in recent years have usually occurred in colder winters with high snow water equivalent ratios in frigid
arctic air.