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Getting Knotted: Climate Change and the Jet Stream
August 24, 2013 0

Getting Knotted: Climate Change and the Jet Stream

By News Desk

Tweet Eli has been amongst those concerned with links between Arctic heating, jet stream perturbations and weird weather.  Eli, of course, is neither a meteorologist nor a climate scientist, he is but a bunny, but a literate one (unusual, we know) and has been following work in this area, led by Jennifer Francis at Rutgers .  Just yesterday the Rabett ran into three things that tied all this together.  First Paul Douglas shows Eli a weather forecast map from NOAA, where nature has turned it up to bake in the north central US.  Unusual for this time of year, but especially so because it was freezing cold for the summer just weeks ago  Next a map of the jet stream from Intellicast And finally an editorial in Nature Climate Change which ties the package together The day-to-day weather and longer-term climate are different phenomena, although there are strong links between them.

Spain’s GDP Contracts at 2% Annualized Rate in First Quarter
April 24, 2013 0

Spain’s GDP Contracts at 2% Annualized Rate in First Quarter

By News Desk

According to the Bank of Spain and as reported by Libre Mercado , Spain’s GDP Drops at 2% Annualized Rate in First Quarter The Spanish economy fell 0.5% in the first quarter and declined 2% year on year, according to economic bulletin of the Bank of Spain , which estimates a fall of 4.5% of employment in the same period, two tenths less than in the previous quarter. The monetary authority notes that Spain continued the "contraction pattern" of activity in the first quarter, although at a "more muted" than in the final last year, where the GDP contracted by 0.8 % quarterly rate.