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In climate news, this is big. Everyone follows the yellow-brick road of government funding looking to link everything to increasing CO2. In the meantime, the real story behind the global cooling that started in 2007 is starting to accelerate (as evident from the last 2 years in the U.S. and Europe). wattsupwiththat.com
As I said, I live in Florida and am trying to make skeptic citizens feel comfortable with their views, and I try to instill doubt into the believers (that's all I try to do...small steps).
I've haven't mentioned much about the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO). Here's a little more insight on the AMO. aoml.noaa.gov
The IPCC mentions the AMO in Section 3.6 about Teleconnections. The subsection on the AMO (3.6.6) comments on published atmospheric teleconnections (e.g., hurricane activity and droughts) but never mentions the fact that the AMO correlates with global temperatures much, much better than CO2. ipcc.ch
Let me reiterate the AMO phases. The figure below is from this link (written in 2008): intellicast.com
The AMO started plummeting in Jan 2014 and continues into negative territory. Jan 2014 was the first blast of cold-air in the eastern U.S. termed the "polar vortex". It looks very familiar to the jet-pattern with the negative cold phase AO/NAO (Arctic Oscillation/North Atlantic Oscillation, where AO/NAO are atmospheric components of the AMO ocean pattern, much like the Southern Oscillation is the atmospheric component of the El Nino pattern...typically called ENSO).
The unprecedented polar vortex caused by climate change. National Geographic even wrote about it.
Whoops, that's from 1977. What else was going on in 1977? California Water Crisis 1977:
At the same time, The Coming Ice Age:
Any resemblances to the Buffalo snow event in November 2014? You bet. This snow event occurred when an anomalously cold airmass cross over anomalously cold Lake Erie in November 2014.
In the figure above, high pressure over Greenland causes low pressure systems to track southward into the Mediterranean Sea. Did this happen this past winter? Absolutely.
Dec 12, 2014 - Syrian snow storm: theguardian.com Jan 10, 2015 - Middle East Winter Storm: telegraph.co.uk Feb 5, 2015 - Spain snow storm: bbc.com The negative AMO pattern will take hold no matter the amount of CO2. It's going to continue. It'll get colder.
