07-04-2017 12:00 via theguardian.com

New study links carbon pollution to extreme weather | John Abraham

Human activities are altering the jet stream, which leads to extreme weather patterns getting stuck in place
It was only a few weeks ago that I wrote about changes to extreme weather in a warming world. That prior article dealt with the increase of extreme precipitation events as the Earth warms. I termed the relationship a thermodynamic one; it was driven by local thermodynamic processes. But extreme weather can also occur because of large-scale changes to the atmosphere and oceans. This issue
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