Runaway climate change is now happening

[Lauren Johnson]

I think what we are seeing is closer to a new ice age rather than global warming. When I first moved here we barely had any winter. Now the winters are colder and longer each year. Yesterday a friend in my home town (Springhill Nova Scotia) posted on facebook that it was 3 degrees there. That is just insane. I don't recall growing up ever seeing that kind of extreme in May. I so hate the cold that I find myself looking at places to buy in south FL. or South Padre Island here in TX. But retirement is a long way off, so for now I just look.

Dawn, the really weird thing is that in the arctic temperatures are just insane on the warm side. The entire planetary extreme north is getting rapid warmed. The in norther Canada while Fort McMurray were in the nineties! How's that for a new ice age.

The current scientific explanation for this weird weather is that as the arctic ice cap is melting everything (land and ocean) is warming. This creates huge loops in the jet stream that creates havoc. Peter would probably be able to say it better.

Here is satellite water vapor loop that shows warm air moist air sent up into the arctic with a big loop coming down. This is what is called an Omega Blocking Pattern. This pattern is becoming the norm instead of the east/west pattern of the jet streams which was the more normal path of the jets.

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_...;region=he

Some people say a better way of describing climate change is "global weirding."