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What’s up with this big freeze? Some scientists see climate change link
A warming Arctic can stretch the polar vortex, a high-altitude air ribbon, one says. The “wobble” can disrupt the jet stream, causing extreme cold in the East.
ERIC NIILER / NEW YORK TIMES – If the planet is getting warmer, why is it so cold this winter?
The seeming contradiction comes up often when talking to Judah Cohen, a research scientist at M.I.T. who has been studying how global warming might also be causing colder winters in the eastern United States …
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