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Guest Michio Kaku, a physics professor from New York City College--not a climatologist, but a physicist--claimed that the "wacky weather" could get "even wackier" and its all because of global warming.
Professor Kaku is a theoretical physicist and usually works on deep stuff like cosmology and general relativity but understands and uses theoretical thermodynamics and statistical mechanics which are key if you try to understand the behavior of the Earth's environment. Thermodynamics is also key to understanding refrigerators which consume energy but reduce the amount of thermal energy inside the refrigerator making it cold. So how would you explain this puzzle which would have stumped some of the great thinkers of history like Aristole, Galileo or Newton. or like most Americans would you throw up your hands and claim its the devils work. As far as thermodynamics is concerned there is no difference between refrigerators or the Earth's environment the physics is the same.
He isn't lying, the jet stream has being going crazy in recent years and that has been something forecasted to happen with the effects of global warming.
Yeah, well a cat can have kittens in the oven, but that don't make em' biscuits.
Since when has weather been predictable? The global warming is called summer, and climate change is the seasons..
All that thinking about global warming... It is an airhead thinking about the weather.
Really? I don't know where you get your news, but everything I find says the opposite.
New research suggests that the main system that helps determine the weather over Northern Europe and North America may be changing. The study shows that the so-called jet stream has increasingly taken a longer, meandering path. BBC News - Wavier jet stream 'may drive weather shift'
The ferocity of the weather in the eastern United States this winter is blamed on a stubborn "long-wave" pattern to the jet stream, which continues to steer precipitation to the north of drought-bound California, sending it into frigid northern Canada befire it dives south into the Midwest and Southeastern United States. Dixie gets warmer weather as latest storm marches toward New England - UPI.com
As the globe continues to warm, it is already having an effect on the jet stream and corresponding weather patterns, according to the latest U.N. IPCC climate report, which states: “It is likely that circulation features have moved poleward since the 1970s, involving a widening of the tropical belt, a poleward shift of storm tracks and jet streams, and a contraction of the northern polar vortex. Evidence is more robust for the Northern Hemisphere. Climate Change & The Jet Stream | Climate Central
I do not disagree with any of that. So what makes you think the northern polar jet stream shift is a rare occurrence? The last time the northern polar jet stream meandered as far south as Florida was in 1984. There were a lot of ruined crops that year. It happens from time to time, quite regularly as a matter of fact. The polar vortexes occur every year. It is just that in most years the northern polar jet stream keeps that cold air from reaching the lower-48. This year that did not happen.
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