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the U.S. had its coldest winter in 25 years. A series of remarkable snow storms pounded the Eastern U.S., with the "Snowmageddon" blizzard dumping more than two feet of snow on Baltimore and Philadelphia. Western Europe also experienced unusually cold and snowy conditions, with the UK recording its 8th coldest January. A highly extreme negative phase of the NAO and AO returned again during November 2010, and lasted into January 2011. Exceptionally cold and snowy conditions hit much of Western Europe and the Eastern U.S. again in the winter of 2010 - 2011. During these two extreme winters, New York City recorded three of its top-ten snowstorms since 1869, and Philadelphia recorded four of its top-ten snowstorms since 1884.
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The pace of extreme weather events has remained remarkably high during 2011, giving rise to the question--is the "Global Weirding" of 2010 and 2011 the new normal? Has human-caused climate change destabilized the climate, bringing these extreme, unprecedented weather events? Any one of the extreme weather events of 2010 or 2011 could have occurred naturally sometime during the past 1,000 years. But it is highly improbable that the remarkable extreme weather events of 2010 and 2011 could have all happened in such a short period of time without some powerful climate-altering force at work. The best science we have right now maintains that human-caused emissions of heat-trapping gases like CO2 are the most likely cause of such a climate-altering force.
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Jeff has no clue these events have happened over the history of our planet.Climate change has and always will occur,we have no influence.Jeff has lost his way,climate scientist you must be kidding.Whenever someone claims the science is settled,you know they are liers.
I suspect Jeff knows quite well he is spouting BS. He is deliebrately lieing to convince others, to support his ideological prgram,.
"The pace of extreme weather events has remained remarkably high during 2011". A completely unscientific statement and absolutely disingenuous. What is the historical "pace" (rate) of "extreme" weather? What is a normal pace? Quantify "extreme". Is there a metric for extreme? Shall we start classifying "extreme" weather events? I.e., Snowmageddon was a M4 extreme weather event (in honor of Masters). Any so-called "scientist" who agrees with that statement is no scientist at all. That statement was directed toward the simple-minded of this world.
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