Sentences with phrase «polar warming event»

And a major focus is evidence that winter polar warming events are increasingly connected to blizzards and storms in places like Europe and North America.

Not exact matches

what we need to think about also, now, are polar cities, GOOGLE THE TERM, for future survivors of global warming events.

And when you get a polar vortex disruption, warm air from the lower latitudes rushes in to the Arctic, and you can get extreme warm events like we saw in February.

Because of the warming, «there are some potentially catastrophic events that must be considered,» including sea level rise from melting polar ice sheets, according to the document.

The planet is getting warmer, ocean temperatures are rising, the polar ice caps are melting, and all of the incontrovertible science of climate change is that more extreme - weather events are an inevitable consequence.

•» Hence, both regional and local sea - level rise and fall in meter - scale is related to the geologic events only and not related to global warming and / or polar ice melt.»

As a far - flung member of the global climate change blogging community, focusing specifically on the possible need for sustainable «polar cities» in the far distant future to house potential survivors of catastrophic global warming events, in say the year 2500 or so (okay, so I am being generous; I don't want to be accussed of fear - mongering in the present).

Speaking of polar temperature changes (this is my lame attempt at looking like I'm staying on thread), does anyone here have some expertise they can share regarding the potential (or lack thereof) for tropospheric impact resulting from the ongoing sudden stratospheric warming event in the Arctic?

Some really interesting recent weather events in the High Arctic have shown me the reality of a warmer polar region, snow flakes do not melt in an ocean -1.5 C cold, and ice does not form when its -6 C outside.

We have already started «events» that we know of, such as global warming (your expertise), and others that we don't, but will affect the leatherback and other animals like the polar bear in the Arctic.

As you know, Andy, I've created a term — polar cities — as a possible place where survivors of global warming's catastrophic events by the year 2500 might live, and I've commissioned a graphic artist to come up with some very graphic visual images of these «polar cities» (/ / pcillu101.blogspot.com).

Limits must be strict enough to avert the worst consequences of global warming that are already being felt in extreme weather events, droughts, floods, melting glaciers and polar ice caps and rising sea levels that threaten to swamp coastal communities and small island states.

In these events, cold - air usually penned in the Arctic by winds known as the polar vortex, broke out and reached the U.S. and Europe due to an erosion of the vortex, an erosion that may have been driven by an abnormally warm Arctic.6

Countless articles assured us that the seas were rising and would swamp major coastal cities, that all the polar bears were drowning, and that every natural climate event from hurricanes to tornadoes was caused by global warming.

These are both complex phenomena, but a sudden stratospheric warming event typically occurs when energy from the lower atmosphere travels upwards, and this can disrupt the area of low pressure and high westerly winds that comprise the polar vortex.

The warm air intrusion followed two other related and noteworthy weather events, a sudden warming of the stratosphere, known as a sudden stratospheric warming event, and a splitting of the polar vortex.

So, the original theory of AGW would have produced warmer air coming from the polar regions which would have created a smaller temperature difference between systems, and thus would have created fewer extreme weather events, not more of them.

Watch the global warming issue zooming by in a superficial manner and all the horrific claims — increasingly extreme weather events, imperiled polar bear populations, skeptics who are paid to lie about the truth of all of this — sound like they are true.

On the whole is it not true to say that during high sunspots episodes the equatorial areas are warmed, and during coronal hole events the polar regions are warmed?

It is an event «outside the realm of regular expectations» but one can't say «nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility» In my 2006 post, I argued that rapid polar warming and the potential for a melting of the tundra and massive release of methane was a black swan.

As one of the world's leading polar scientists with more than 47 years» experience of visiting and measuring ice at the poles, he provided a lucid and sobering explanation of the impact of global warming on the poles, and the way in which the disappearance of polar ice is itself hastening global warming, and contributing to extreme weather events such as the March blizzards preventing some people attending the conference.

Events like the record cold in Europe in 2011 and this polar vortex event are clear examples of the exceptional cold weather extreme in a warming world.

«Stratospheric sudden warming» events occur when temperatures rise and 80 - mph «polar vortex» winds encircling the Artic suddenly weaken or even change direction.

And that this polar warming is increasingly associated with severe weather events in the middle latitudes and especially over the land and North Atlantic mid latitude zones.