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Jet Stream Stalled over Sweden Climate Weather Connection Explained

"Greek wildfires: dry winter and strong winds led to tinderbox conditions"

Climate State
Published on Jul 25, 2018

This heatwave across much of the northern hemisphere could continue for weeks, and possibly even months. And accelerated
warming in the Arctic compared to the rest of the planet could be a key contributor. https://www.newscientist.com/article/...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yObanrslYME

Please note the important fact noted by a worthy president at the very end.

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Forest fires cause rail chaos in Norway

The Local
[e-mail]
@thelocalnorway

2 July 2018
15:36 CEST+02:00


Helicopters take part in the firefighting operation over Nittedal. Photo: Tor Erik Schrøder / NTB scanpix

Train cancellations due to forest fire have caused major transport delays as Norwegian rail operator NSB struggles to find enough replacement buses.

https://www.thelocal.no/20180702/forest-fires-cause-rail-chaos-in-norway

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As Arctic Ice Vanishes, New Shipping Routes Open

By JUGAL K. PATEL and HENRY FOUNTAIN MAY 3, 2017

As global warming melts sea ice across the Arctic, shipping routes once thought impossible — including directly over
the North Pole — may open up by midcentury. But high costs may keep the new routes from being used right away.



https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/03/science/earth/arctic-shipping.html

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Russian tanker sails through Arctic without icebreaker for first time

Climate change has thawed Arctic enough for $300m gas tanker to travel at record speed through northern sea route

Patrick Barkham
@patrick_barkham

Fri 25 Aug 2017 01.51 AEST
First published on Fri 25 Aug 2017 01.12 AEST


The Christophe de Margerie carried a cargo of liquefied natural gas from Hammerfest
in Norway to Boryeong in South Korea in 22 days.

A Russian tanker has travelled through the northern sea route in record speed and without an icebreaker
escort for the first time, highlighting how climate change is opening up the high Arctic.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/24/russian-tanker-sails-arctic-without-icebreaker-first-time

See also:

2016-Wobbly Jet Stream Is Sending the Melting Arctic into 'Uncharted Territory'
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123249280

Carbon dioxide levels could reach their highest point in 50 million years by the end of the century
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=130328008

Melting Glaciers Are Wreaking Havoc on Earth’s Crust
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=131809728

Trump Wishes He Could Destroy Obama’s Legacy. He Hasn’t. And Won’t.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=142136256

Son of a beech. Climate turbulence doesn't have a known outcome. What
is "good" or "bad" depends on whose value system one uses. The long-term
changes in a complex ecosystem are often full of unexpected consequences.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=139535399

[Australian] Climate backflip ignores expert advice
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=127149693

Top Ten Climate Change Threats being ignored by your Television News
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=93194952

La Nina expected in next months for the first time since 2012
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=120485382

fuagf -- it's the increased Greenland ice melt -- the much fresher and thus lighter/less-dense meltwater floats at the
surface, keeping the warmer but still heavier/denser saltwater brought to the area by the thermohaline circulation,...
[...]
Is ‘The Day After Tomorrow' Scenario Possible? Study Says Collapse Of Ocean Currents Could Reverse Global Warming Effects
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=117788868

WHY I AM AFRAID OF GLOBAL COOLING
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=142374212

What’s going on in the North Atlantic?
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=117788605

Is this the polar vortex all over again, but in the summer?
>The strange weather pattern has its roots near Hudson Bay, Canada,
where so much of last winter's cold originated. The cold air will be spinning around underneath an area of low pressure at upper levels of
the atmosphere, which the jet stream, which is the river of air at about 30,000 feet, is going to steer south, into the U.S., over the weekend.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=104265450

Russian Scientists Say the Arctic Is Theirs
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=3160322

West Antarctica Glaciers: Past the Point of No Return
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=102380749
.. one of 14 replies ..
The Antarctic ice sheet is a sleeping giant, beginning to stir
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=109936513

Its snowing more in Antarctica
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=139971412

Animals are already dissolving in Southern Ocean acid
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=81800452
.. 1 of 2 replies ..
Recent Heat Spike Like Nothing in 11,000 Years
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=85435918

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JimLur .. Debunking Malcolm Roberts: the case against a climate science denier
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128316327

conix -- an inane, meaningless cherry-pick of an old article which
wasn't even consistent with the scientific consensus at the time...
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124039545

Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=103618827

Winter Does Not Disprove Global Warming
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=95662259

For all the conservative climate deniers:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=93794235

‘The doomsayers were right’: James Hansen’s 30-year-old climate warning rings true today
30 years after a brave scientist warned us about global warming, deniers run America.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=141868488
.. and in reply ..
U.S. Warm Records Crushing Cold Records by Over 5-to-1 Ratio in 2017
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=141881682
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Could a £400bn plan to refreeze the Arctic before the ice melts really work?
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128634730

Why Is the Boreal Forest Breathing CO2 More Deeply?
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=90823254

The Day the Earth Smiled
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=95469526