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In the previous post of this series I wrote "El Nino" is a fable which began long ago" (The El Nino/La Nina Chronicles - 5).
In a recent paper renowned scientist Dr. Hansen wrote "Beware the 'surprise' record high being blamed on an extreme El Nino" (Beware Media Hype. It’s Not the El Nino!).
And last but not least, a few days ago the news and science was that:
"It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now
The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is
The Arctic is cooking. Across northern Russia—a region that is famously bitterly cold—temperatures this week have routinely surpassed 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), adding to the mountain of broken heat records this summer has racked up so far.
In recent days, the Selagoncy meteorological station, near the border of the Arctic Circle, recorded 93.0 degrees F (33.9 degrees C); another station, Olenek, logged 90.9 degrees F (32.7 degrees C), according to data collected by weather information service Ogimet and reported by climatologist Maximiliano Herrera. To put that in perspective, these temperatures are on par for Orlando, Fla., at this time of year."
(Yahoo News, cf. Scientific American). In a previous Dredd Blog series which began a decade ago (Watching The Arctic Die, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) this scenario was projected ("The future, as the Arctic looses its ice, is less severe record cold incursions but more severe record heat incursions") in episode 7.
The previous post in this series is here.
