Climate scientists Charles Greene and Bruce Monger of Cornell University, writing earlier this year in Oceanography, provided evidence that
Arctic icemelts linked to global warming contribute to the very atmospheric pattern that sent the frigid burst down across Canada and the eastern U.S.
With respect to the original article, if increased
arctic icemelt forces the Great Ocean Conveyor south far enough, our problem may well be the next ice age rather than global warming.
(Ten years from now, we all may be floating on the North Pole's
icemelt, fighting over Earth's last mason jar of clean drinking water before the CO2 finally heats the oceans to boiling) but the influence of the iPhone is here to stay.