Is Climate Change to Blame for Colder Winters?
By Matt Danzer
Posted March 30, 2015 at 5:00am While some have pointed the finger at climate change to explain the bitterly cold winters of late, Neal Colgrass looks at a recent paper in the
Journal of Climate
that “extreme cold snaps will become rarer as the climate continues to warm.”
“The argument goes like this: The Arctic has been warming for decades, and temperatures in mid-latitudes (or temperate zones, where most of us live) vary less often when there’s less temperature difference between the tropics and the poles. Think of it this way: If air masses were all the same, there would theoretically be no fluctuation. So, less difference, less fluctuation.”