No, Global Warming is Not Causing More Frequent Arctic Outbreaks
By Chris Martz | November 9, 2019 INTRODUCTION Just when wildfires weren’t enough, we now have people blaming cold weather on a warming climate, which seems quite contradictory. In light of the Arctic outbreak in forecast this coming week, people like Phil Plait (who has since blocked me) took to Twitter (Figure 1) to claim that man-made climate change is causing frigid, Arctic air to be displaced south into the United States, Europe, and Asia. Figure 1. Phil Plait thinks cold weather is caused by climate change. His argument, which is supported by some climate scientists, suggests that …