WEATHER EXTREMES ARE INCREASING. Record-Cold and Snowfall in New England during 2015 winter. -Record high sea temps, 11.5 C, put more water vapor (snow) in the atmosphere. -Record-Hot West Sees First 100-Degree Temperature of 2015. - CA 4 yr. drought longest in history. Wet areas getting wetter: Floods, Snow Dry areas getting drier: CA Drought, Wildfires. Rising sea levels are a better measure of global warming than air temperaure.

1. OSCILLATIONS from ARCTIC WARMING:
Record & Hot,
RISING SEAS
Paul H. Carr
www.MirrorOfNature.org
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2. WEATHER EXTREMES ARE INCREASING.
• Record-Cold and Snowfall in New
England during 2015 winter.
-Record high sea temps, 11.5 C, put more
water vapor (snow) in the atmosphere.
• Record-Hot West Sees First 100-Degree
Temperature of 2015.
- CA 4 yr. drought longest in history.
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3. A darker Arctic is boosting global warming
From1979 to 2011, less reflecting ice, more absorbing water made North Pole warm twice as
fast as the rest of the earth.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/02/13/1318201111.abstract
Proc. National Academy of Science, Feb 18, 2014.
ARCTIC MELTING IN THE LAST 32 YEARS
SATELITE PHOTO
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4. PAST COLD ARCTIC PRESENT WARMER ARCTIC
Higher pressure sub-tropic constrained the
low-pressure arctic
Lower pressure difference allows
waves of arctic air to invade the
South: Warmer & Colder Winters.
Cold Air Oscillates South from the Arctic
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of our earth.
Therefore the temperature and the accompanying pressure difference that used to keep arctic
air up North comes South, bringing cold air to Atlanta & New Orleans.
A Wacky Jet Steam Is Making Our Weather Severe , Scientific American, Nov 18, 2014
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6. The jet stream that circles Earth's north pole travels west to east. But when the jet stream
interacts with a Rossby wave, as shown here, the winds can wander far north and south,
bringing frigid air to normally mild southern states. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-
way/2014/02/16/277911739/warming-arctic-may-be-causing-jet-stream-to-lose-its-way
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7. Arctic Winter Ice Reached New Low Feb 28, 2015
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ANOMALOUSLY HIGH SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES OF +5 deg. C PUT MORE WATER VAPOR
IN THE ATMOSPHERE. STORMS CARRY IT OVER THE COLD LAND TO MAKE MORE SNOW.

9. Blue: Sea level change from tide-gauge data (Church J.A. and White N.J., Geophys. Res. Lett. 2006; 33: L01602)
Red: Univ. Colorado sea level analyses in satellite era (http://www.columbia.edu/~mhs119/SeaLevel/).
Present Sea level rise rate is 4 times that of 1900.
1 ft./100
years.
7.5 in./100 years
3 in. /100 years
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10. The rate of sea
level increase
correlates with
the blue line of
CO2 increase.
Sea level rise is a proxy
for global temperature,
due to thermal
expansion (50%) &
the melting of ice (50%)
Sea level rise rate has
increased 4 times:
3.1 mm/year
( 1 ft/100 yr. ) now
from 0.8 mm/year in
1900
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11. 1880-1980: 0.3 C TEMP INCREASE
1980- 2012: 0.55 TEMPERATURE INCREASE
(Hansen, J., Ruedy, R., Sato, M., and Lo, K., 2010: Global surface temperature change, Rev. Geophys. 48, RG4004.)
LONG TERM CLIMATE AVERAGES REMOVE
THE SHORT TERM WEATHER FLUCTUATIONS
IS THE “FAUX PAUSE” STATISTICALLY AND CLIMACTICALLY SIGNIFICANT?
OUR PRESENT DECADE HAS BEEN THE WARMEST IN CENTRURIES 11

12. Oceanic heat sink.Evolution of the ocean heat content (OHC) at several depths of the global
ocean between 1980 and 2011.
A Clement, and P DiNezio Science 2014;343:976-978
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/976.full
Published by AAAS
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13. Most recent prediction for 2100: 2 to 6 feet
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14. Sea levels predicted to rise 2-4 feet by 2100 will flood Back Bay.14

15. CONCLUSIONS
1. WEATHER EXTREMES ARE INCREASING
-Wet areas are becoming wetter: Floods, Snow
Atmosphere holds more water at higher temps.
-Dry areas, drier: Droughts, Wildfires
2. RISING SEA LEVELS ARE A BETTER
MEASURE OF GLOBAL WARMING
THAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE.
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16. Source: US National Climate Assessment 16

17. • Melting Greenland
• Melting Antarctica
• Mountain Glaciers
• Thermal Expansion
Global temperatures have risen since 1960, but rate of sea level rise has be greater.
EARTH WILL CROSS DANGER TRESHOLD BY 2036
M. Mann. Scientific American, vol 310, April 2014
Faux Pause
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