Don't cross the streams - Climate

About that cataclysmic crossing of the northern and southern hemisphere jet streams?

Actually, happens all the time. From The Daily Caller:

Climate Scientist Totally Debunks Fears Of An ‘Unprecedented Climate Emergency’
A self-proclaimed climate expert has issued a dire warning of an ‘unprecedented climate emergency’ because the Northern Hemisphere’s jet stream crossed the equator, but actual climate scientist Dr. Roy Spencer says the move is not at all unprecedented.

“Our climate system behaviour continues to behave in new and scary ways that we have never anticipated, or seen before,” Beckwith wrote in a piece titled ‘Jet Stream Crosses Equator, Unprecedented?‘.

“Welcome to climate chaos. We must declare a global climate emergency,” he blared

Spencer, however, saw the event as typical, not unprecedented.

“There is frequently cross-equatorial flow at jet stream altitudes, and that flow can connect up with a subtropical jet stream,” Spencer wrote in a response to Beckwith. “But it has always happened, and always will happen, with or without the help of humans.”

The supposed climate emergency stems from a belief that the northern jet stream crossing into the south will mix the seasons and warm the winter as well as cool the summer.

Beckwith, who has a master’s degree in laser optics and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, “knows little of meteorology, let alone climate,” Spencer continued.

Dr. Spencer, for comparison, has a Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has worked as a senior scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center where he received the ‘Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal’, and later went on to be principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He has also testified before Congress several times regarding global warming.

Whenever you see a claim like this or some chart of graph, it is usually the output of a computer model. Unfortunately, these models fail when tested with actual data. They cannot hindcast - if we give them the last 200 years of climactic data, they fail to predict current temperatures and climate.

Boots on the ground actual data point to at least 30 years of cooling in our immediate future.

Crossing the streams? This classic: