This does nothing to stop the defenders of the status quo from getting all worked up about how wrong all those climate scientists are. Meanwhile in the southern hemisphere Australia is suffering from heat waves and massive crop losses.
The changes that are happening to the global climate system will cause more extremes of both hot and cold, because adding more energy to the system will cause more disruptions in the normal jet stream patterns. This will allow cold air to flow down from the poles as well as warm air to move north. While the freeze in the southeast is grabbing all the headlines the

I will close this post with a graphic representation of record heat versus record cold since the 1950's from Dr. Joseph Romm's excellent blog Climate Progress: This is only for the U.S., but the change in ratio is striking.
I will bet that there are more record highs set in the U.S. in 2010 than record lows - anyone want to take me up on it?
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