During the winter, the melting Arctic is like opening the refrigerator door . . .
The refrigerator gets warmer, and the room (the lower latitudes) get colder.
The cold winters of late might be a climate change rather than random variability. The explanation would be the weakening of the cyclonic winds that keep the extreme cold penned into the high latitudes.
Cold Jumps Arctic ‘Fence,’ Stoking Winter’s Fury. By Justin Gillis. New York Times.
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He has been a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and also its President. For many years he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
Since my previous post on this topic might have gone over the heads of some,,,the Global Climate Oscillation thing…Entropy and the 2nd law of Thermodynamics …etc , I’ll scrunch it down to a Frank Lutz-like political word gulp:
Global Weirding.