Even better, the Arctic Vortex is due to global warming. The melting of the Arctic ice cap makes the jet stream, which controls the vortex, unstable, which is why it has looped so far south bringing the vortex with it.
http://grist.org/climate-energy/why-the-arctic-is-drunk-right-now/ Paul On Jan 8, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Christopher Green wrote: We call it not understanding the difference between anecdote and systematic evidence. We call it not understanding the difference between weather and climate. We call it not understanding that the increase in mean global temperature comes along with an increase in variability. Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.yorku.ca/christo On Jan 8, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Michael Britt <[email protected]> wrote: Okay, so what do we call this: "How could there possibly be global warming? It's really cold where I am." Confirmation bias perhaps? Anyway, good time to talk about this is psych class. Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. [email protected] http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=32520 or send a blank email to leave-32520-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263003&n=T&l=tips&o=32521 or send a blank email to leave-32521-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=32532 or send a blank email to leave-32532-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
