TL;DR, a warming planet causes the jet stream to weaken. The jet stream keeps cold air in place and weakening allows it to move farther south.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
57 points (96.7% liked)
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
5376 readers
615 users here now
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Because climate isn’t exactly equal to weather. There are effects on weather from what happens to the climate, obviously, but a warming planet doesn’t only mean warm winters. It means instability.
Seems to be a correlation vs causation misunderstanding of the wrong order.
There is a more-or-less constant stream of air moving across the US. This stream of air is pushing the cold air at the north pole up north.
As the earth warms, this stream of air weakens. It can't push the cold air up north, which causes the titty that is the polar vortex to sag ever southwards.