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Climate Change and the Jet Stream
Image Credit: Climate Central
Evidence for a wavier jet stream in response to rapid Arctic warming
Studies of new metrics of rapid Arctic warming and more frequent high-amplitude (wavy) jet-stream configurations “suggest that as the Arctic continues to warm faster than elsewhere in response to rising greenhouse-gas concentrations, the frequency of extreme weather events caused by persistent jet-stream patterns will increase.”
~ Environmental Research Letters, Jennifer A Francis & Stephen J Vavrus, published by IOP Publishing Ltd, January 2015. [Open Access to study available on IOP Science.]
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Antarctic Expedition Team Finds Clear Signs of Climate Change at the Bottom of the World
Cole Mellino, News Report
“Do we have the sense to leave one place alone on Earth as a natural reserve for science and peace?” That is the question that Robert Swan and the International Antarctic Expedition are trying to answer as his team begins exploring Antarctica.
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