Here's a new climate change reality that Trump's new policies ignore

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President Donald Trump may be trying to scrub his predecessor's initiatives to fight climate change from just about every corner of the federal government — Exhibit A being this week’s executive order aimed at undoing Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan — but the reality of the climate crisis is not going away.

And the dangers we're facing may have gotten even clearer this week with a new study confirming a strong link between a warming atmosphere caused by human pollution and a growing wave of extreme weather events around the world.

The study, by veteran climate researcher Michael Mann at Penn State University and colleagues in the US and Europe, may nail down a phenomenon hinted at for several years: that rapid warming in the Arctic is disrupting the Northern Hemisphere's jet stream, which in turn is causing weather systems to slow down, turning rainstorms into extended deluges, hot days into heat waves, and dry spells into droughts.

We already knew there was a relationship between climate change and certain types of extreme weather events, Mann says. But he says the new study, published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports, shows what he calls “an extra linkage” in the effect of rising temperatures on the northern jet stream.

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[Samantha]

1. Very interesting and good to know

Thanks for sharing this info.

Sam