Our Fossil Fuel Addiction is leading to “Bomb Cyclones” & Famines
This week’s wild weather is a glimpse of what’s to come if we don’t get our carbon omissions under control
Climate-change induced famine, already stalking humans across the globe, could soon appear right here at home and in Europe, and this week’s wild weather is a small taste of how it would play out.
It all tracks back to our fossil fuel addiction, which has been warming our atmosphere since the 1860s, and is now messing with atmospheric and oceanic rivers of warm and cold water and air.
This week North America experienced the results of a “bomb cyclone,” a phenomenon that happens when Arctic air spills out of the Arctic and drools down over North America. Normally that air is kept bottled up in the Arctic by a rigid, fast-moving river of air that circles the north pole called the Jet Stream.
If you’ve ever watched an approaching thunderstorm on an otherwise clear day, you know what happens when two masses of air with very different temperatures collide: we refer to these as “fronts,” and they can stretch for hundreds of miles and carry enormous power.
How The Artic Freezing Weather is Escaping
