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Melting Arctic sea ice could be altering jet stream
2013-12-11 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: The rapidly warming Arctic isnt noteworthy only for its own sake. Changes there affect the rest of the planet in a number of ways. Recently, there has been a lot of interest in whether the dwindling Arctic summer sea ice could be weirding the weather in the mid-latitudes. There have been a number of recent summer extremes--Russias hellish summer in 2010, the drought in the US last summer, a very wet 2011 in Korea and Japan, plus a streak of soggy summers in the UK. There have been suggestions...
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