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Storm ‘Unfreezes’ North Pole, Causing Temperatures to Rise 50 Degrees Fahrenheit Above Normal
A storm system that’s recently brought extreme weather across the country also caused temperatures to rise about 50 degrees Fahrenheit above normal in the North Pole today.
The North Pole “unfroze” today, experiencing a temperature high of upwards 40 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature that’s “unheard of” in the area during winter months, according to ABC News meteorologist Melissa Griffin. It’s usually minus 15 to minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit there at this time of year.
The storm system drawing warm air to the North Pole is the same one that caused recent tornadoes in Texas, winter weather in the Midwest and heavy rain and flooding in the Mid- and Southeast, Griffin said.
30 Comments on "Storm ‘Unfreezes’ North Pole, Causing Temperatures to Rise 50 Degrees Fahrenheit Above Normal"
Westexasfanclub on Sun, 3rd Apr 2016 7:26 pm
Not so new article. That phenomenon came about around last year’s end. Though yes, the whole winter was ways too warm and the maximum of the ice cap was one of the lowest on record.
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Sun, 3rd Apr 2016 7:51 pm
Thank you for posting an article that is over 3 months old. This pathetic site is clearly an exercise in click baiting in order to get traffic to justify advertising sales.
makati1 on Sun, 3rd Apr 2016 8:27 pm
Poo-pooing the site for posting an older article and not saying a word about how this is NOT good news for any of us, especially those who live in the northern latitudes, is just stupid.
This is not a good thing. It is only more proof of the earth’s warming and that the speed of change is rising faster than previously thought. The price of oil, or how many barrels is immaterial to our future.
So many “educated” Americans have no idea how the ecosystem works or how important the oceans are to our existence. They are about to learn, the hard way. The Arctic changes will have little effect to those living near the equator, like me, but a lot of changes for hose living in the Us or Canada.
makati1 on Sun, 3rd Apr 2016 8:28 pm
Poo-pooing the site for posting an older article and not saying a word about how this is NOT good news for any of us, especially those who live in the northern latitudes, is just stupid.
This is not a good thing. It is only more proof of the earth’s warming and that the speed of change is rising faster than previously thought. The price of oil, or how many barrels is immaterial to our future.
So many “educated” Americans have no idea how the ecosystem works or how important the oceans are to our existence. They are about to learn, the hard way. The Arctic changes will have little effect to those living near the equator, like me, but a lot of changes for those living in the Us or Canada.
Davy on Sun, 3rd Apr 2016 8:33 pm
“The Arctic changes will have little effect to those living near the equator, like me, but a lot of changes for hose living in the Us or Canada.”
But what about this Makattti:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/04/video-philippines-rice-shortage-sparks.html
Makattti you are so full of it.
Apneaman on Sun, 3rd Apr 2016 9:32 pm
3 months ago? How about right fucking now.
Yukoners basking in unprecedented warm spell
Whitehorse temperature records are dropping like flies – just like they are in Dawson City – and it’s no April Fool’s joke.
“Whitehorse temperature records are dropping like flies – just like they are in Dawson City – and it’s no April Fool’s joke.
Thursday’s daytime high of 16.8 C at the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport shattered the previous record set in 1969 by 7.8 degrees.
And if today’s forecast high of 15 C holds true, the standing record of 8.9 C set in 1942, will also fall.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday have all set a new benchmark for record highs: Tuesday’s daytime high rose to 12.5, rising above the 10.5 set in 1994; Wednesday’s 10 C beat out the 9.4, also set in 1994.”
“Normally, Coldwells said, the average temperature in Whitehorse for March is -6.3.
“So you are five degrees above normal for the entire month, which is highly significant.”
http://www.whitehorsestar.com/News/yukoners-basking-in-unprecedented-warm-spell
Apneaman on Sun, 3rd Apr 2016 9:34 pm
El Nino-induced snow proves to be ‘disappointing’ for drought-stricken California
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/el-nino-snow-california-drought-disappointing-season/56451887#.VwGjkHsSNvE.twitter
Apneaman on Sun, 3rd Apr 2016 9:36 pm
Rapid Melt Making Popular New Zealand Glaciers too Dangerous to Hike
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/206005-rapid-melt-making-popular-new-zealand-glaciers-too-dangerous-to-hike
paulo1 on Sun, 3rd Apr 2016 9:52 pm
Hey Ap,
When I worked in watson Lake YT I met a man who reported the coldest ever temperature in Canada that was ever recorded. His name was Gordie Toole. It was at Old Crow. How things have changed in one lifetime. You cannot believe the receeding glaciers in the Coast Range. Lots of bare rock.
makati1 on Sun, 3rd Apr 2016 10:18 pm
Unexpected result of climate change?
“Saharan dust coming to the UK prompts health warning”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/uk-weather-saharan-dust-prompts-health-warning-a6966226.html
Pass the popcorn.
Apneaman on Sun, 3rd Apr 2016 11:24 pm
paulo, many thing we took for granted are gone or going.
This guy makes bullet lists documenting much of it. Reading one is kinda like being punched in the gut. He a crazy mofo, but it’s not his fault – he’s from Ontario.
Collapse Data Cheat Sheet
https://lokisrevengeblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/collapse-data-cheat-sheet/
Ralph on Mon, 4th Apr 2016 6:25 am
Saharan dust in the UK is by no means a new event. It happens every 2 or 3 years. It is weather.
Arctic temperatures 6C above normal for 2 whole months IS a new event. It has wiped out the ‘recovery’ of the sea ice in the last 2 years, and lined us up back to where we were in 2012, waiting to see how much (more) ice melts this summer.
JuanP on Mon, 4th Apr 2016 8:43 am
We get dust from the Sahara and the Sahel in Miami Beach every two or three years for a few hours or days. As far as I know this has been so for decades. There are two different kinds of dust that are very particular and don’t exist in Florida. Both are extremely fine particles, one is ochre and the other is mustard yellow. I’ve seen it cover the whole city in a layer of clearly visible dust a few times. Most people are not aware that the dust comes from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. It is the residue of huge sandstorms down there.
Dredd on Mon, 4th Apr 2016 10:30 am
More ghost-water on the way (The Ghost-Water Constant – 6).
kanon on Mon, 4th Apr 2016 10:46 am
Collapse Data Cheat Sheet
Thanks for that link. The key point I saw on green energy is:
“green energy “simply won’t work” and is a “false dream” without major lifestyle changes.”
Meanwhile, the article indicates quite clearly that climate change is happening faster than predicted. So we know that “major lifestyle changes” are inevitable. I think the inference is that the lifestyle changes are more important than the “green” energy.
Davy on Mon, 4th Apr 2016 11:54 am
Sahara sand is what gave the Bahamas beaches.
Westexasfanclub on Mon, 4th Apr 2016 1:25 pm
We will see in September how all this strange weather has played out, wether it was a tipping point or just a niño-induced annormaly.
… or both of it and we have to wait a couple of years more until we can see what is really happening – somehow like peak oil.
By the way, trying to predict the sea ice max, you can find a strong analogy to peak oil: the downturn is inevitable, but if you coose a very narrow timeframe, it becomes inpredictable and chaotic.
Pennsyguy on Mon, 4th Apr 2016 2:49 pm
It’s a trite tautology, but I don’t care:
Nature bats last and owns the stadium. That’s why many recent reports about climate change make me wet. Nature is also a loving mother who takes the equivalent of a chainsaw to her family every few million years. ‘Still beats patriarchal sky gods IMHO.
Repent on Mon, 4th Apr 2016 5:51 pm
I wonder if you’d get dizzy standing at the North Pole? The world would literally spin around you if stayed put.
Apneaman on Mon, 4th Apr 2016 7:05 pm
Westexas, “a very narrow timeframe” is a well worn denier trick – like using the 1998 el nino as a starting point. Now they/you? want to turn it around a say this year is an anomaly because of el nino. Talk about wanting it both ways. The el nino is estimated to contribute about 10% to current conditions. It’s a brave new world.
Take a look at over 30 years of data on the Arctic sea ice.
Arctic Death Spiral: Sea Ice Extent Hits Record Winter Low As Thickness Collapses
“Arctic sea ice has been in a virtual death spiral for over three decades now with serious implications for extreme weather, sea level rise, and permafrost melt. Not only has the surface area or extent of sea ice declined sharply, but so has the ice thickness during the summer minimum (when the melt season ends in September) — dropping a remarkable 85 percent from 1975 to 2012, according to a recent study.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/26/3633019/arctic-death-spiral-sea-ice/
Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volumes 1979-2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYNDT2kProU
Apneaman on Mon, 4th Apr 2016 7:28 pm
The first worst thing that could happen is an Arctic blue ocean event this coming sept. The US Navy scientists predicted it will happen this year. Others scientists say it’s all but inevitable and should come no later than 2020. Major positive feed back implications.
Accelerating Towards an Arctic Blue Ocean Event
http://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2014/12/08/accelerating-towards-an-arctic-blue-ocean-event/
Arctic Sea Ice Conditions Worsen, Nightmare Melt Scenario in the Works?
http://robertscribbler.com/2015/05/22/arctic-sea-ice-conditions-worsen-nightmare-melt-scenario-in-the-works/
makati1 on Mon, 4th Apr 2016 7:53 pm
Repent, do you think about what you post? If you stood on the place at the center of rotation, you would not even feel it. It would take 24 hours to turn around once. Go there and try to see if I am wrong. Same as at the equator which is moving at over 1,000 miles per hour. No sense of movement other than the sun going up or down. It’s called ‘physics’.
Westexasfanclub on Tue, 5th Apr 2016 2:48 am
Apneaman, I think it’s clear from what I’ve been writing that I’m not in denial mode. I just tried to reveal exactly the same you commented: That a narrow timeframe is irritating though in the long run things come out as they have to: In spring ice starts to melt and Peak Oil starts to happen due to depletion, regardless if the final peak was in 2015 or will be somewhen in the future.
By the way, in the last years I’ve been watching the arctic developments closely and I’m afraid this year we are in a big melting event. El Niño could have triggered a tipping point.
theedrich on Wed, 6th Apr 2016 1:16 am
There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who toil for gold.
joe on Wed, 6th Apr 2016 4:10 am
It seems the GW models are officially underestimated, go read Nature magazine. With cities like New York and London either underwater or fighting for life by the end of this century. Que massive civil engineering projects and billions of dollars spent to places that are historical monuments, like Wall St.
If we give up fossil fuels were doomed, if we don’t, were doomed…..
Davy on Wed, 6th Apr 2016 7:33 am
Go to the south pole and get some good UV exposure and some Gamma rays maybe in the north. That will get your head spinnin
GregT on Wed, 6th Apr 2016 10:09 am
“With cities like New York and London either underwater or fighting for life by the end of this century.”
Despite the constant MSM rhetoric, sea level rise is of the least of our concerns in regards to Climate Change.
PracticalMaina on Wed, 6th Apr 2016 10:18 am
GregT I do agree with that statement, but the power and money centers happen to be on the coast. It will be a bigger story when Manhattan has a flood than super hurricanes in the midwest. There are currently bad fires in the breadbasket of America right now, in early spring, when everything should be green and wet. Not that I know much about spring weather in Kansas but that is at least how it should be in my state, where they call snow poor mans fertilizer.
joe on Wed, 6th Apr 2016 10:30 am
Scary, I hate to think that we will see the begining of this, and our grandkids may not see the end of it. Very sad.
GregT on Wed, 6th Apr 2016 11:05 am
Practical,
“but the power and money centers happen to be on the coast.”
The power and money centres are a big part of the problem. The sooner they are shut down, the better. IMO. What we all should be very concerned about, is biodiversity, and species adaptability. Being at the top of the food chain, we will be amongst the first to go when it starts breaking down. There will also be the small problem of oxygen generation associated with phytoplankton, once the oceans reach tipping points.