The jet stream — America's stormy weather maker — is creeping northward and weakening, new research shows.
That potentially means less rain in the already dry South and Southwest and more storms in the North. And it could also translate into more and stronger hurricanes since the jet stream suppresses their formation. The study's authors said they have to do more research to pinpoint specific consequences.
From 1979 to 2001, the Northern Hemisphere's jet stream moved northward on average at a rate of about 1.25 miles a year, according to the paper published Friday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The authors suspect global warming is the cause, but have yet to prove it.
So, I'm supposed to belive we can make sweeping climatological claims about the shift of roughly 27 miles in the average jet stream location? Bullshit. We didn't even know about the jet stream until World War II, and we certainly were not measuring it in any detail until many years later. That gives us almost no data to work with.
No data means you cannot make sweeping claims about climatological change over time.
A rate of 1.25 miles a year "doesn't sound like much, but that works out to about 18 feet per day," Caldeira said. "If you think about climate zones shifting northward at this rate, you can imagine squirrels keeping up. But what are oak trees going to do?
Squirrels??? WTF are they talking about????
AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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