talk.environment

>> Extreme winds are a result of extreme temperature differences.


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> True, but not specifically from warming.

Oh, yes.. Specifically from warming. In general as the planet's surface
warms it does so differentially and hence the rate of convection increases
as does the temperature between the lower and upper levels of the
atmosphere, and in the sourthern hemisphere = at least temporarily, the
temperature difference between the air inside the antarctic polar vortex and
the air outside.


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> Specifcally, extreme weather conditions are a harbinger of the
> next ice age

Not very likely given the rate at which the earth's surface is warming.

Can you tell us which of the other ice ages started with an abrupt warming
trend?