Is climate change really making winters colder? As brutal polar vortex blasts freeze the U.S. in 2026, many media outlets scream “global warming exposed”: a warming planet is paradoxically causing freezing temps? Discover the jet stream waviness scam and why natural variability trumps the CO2 blame game.
As winter bites the Northern Hemisphere with swirling snowstorms and extreme cold snaps, many in the media and some prominent climate scientists point fingers: climate change is making the jet stream “wavier,” leading to polar vortex intrusions.
We’ve seen headlines about how a warming world causes freezing weather. The mental gymnastics to explain “it’s so hot it’s cold” are Olympic-level.
Whether the jet stream is super-straight (causing “localized chaos worldwide,” as one 2023 Weather Network article below put it) or extra-wavy (blamed for dumping Arctic air southward), it’s spun as evidence of anthropogenic global warming unraveling our weather patterns.
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