Locked Jet Stream, Courtesy Of Global Warming, Bringing You Exciting New Weather Extremes!

[paleotn]

8. Thus, the extremes climate scientists have been predicting for decades now....

as an unstable climate searches for a new, normal state. Fascinating stuff. Even more fascinating if we weren't actually living in this science experiment of our own making. Unfortunately, that new normal will probably include movement and / or expansions of the arid belts or horse latitudes into populated, agriculturally important regions. Think the Sahara moving north into Spain, Portugal and Mediterranean Europe. Or the Nebraska Sandhills reverting back to sand dunes. Western half of Texas, Oklahoma into Kansas and Colorado becoming even dryer to the point where agriculture of any kind may be out of the question. Ironic, since that's a where much of our domestically produced hydrocarbons currently come from.