One of my students, Judith, wrote a blogpost on the Warm Arctic –Cold Continent hypothesis:
“Due to the fact that the Arctic is warming much faster compared to anywhere else on earth, the latitudinal temperature gradient is decreasing. This causes the jet stream to meander, weakening the vortex, moving cold air south and warm air north.”There will be a new blogpost written by a student of Amsterdam University College (AUC) almost every weekday until 26 April on a topic related to climate change, energy, and sustainability. Check out the blog at https://auclimate.wordpress.com/
Energy, Climate & Sustainability
Introduction
While I have been educated in English for most of my life, and even my iPhone settings are completely in English, I have always preferred reading the news in Dutch. As I was scrolling through NU.nl on a particularly cold Saturday morning, an interesting article named “Freezing cold in March: ‘we can expect these kind of periods more often’” (roughly translated), caught my attention. While the article does state that the future winters will know more (cold) extremes due to the melting of the Arctic, it lacked an explanation of why/how this occurs. Out of curiosity I continued to further investigate the topic with one question in mind, is our cold bitter winter season in the Netherlands ultimately caused by global warming?
Initially I hoped some other Dutch media source had shown an interest in the cold weekend as well. Unfortunately, only RTL news had published a…
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My view on climate change 
March 31, 2018 at 17:58
I posted this in comments over at Judith’s OP.
Judithnuria, thank you for an interesting and informative article. I hope your professor has prepared you for the possibility that there will be an interesting discussion in the comments, once your post has ‘escaped into the wild.’ Indeed, I may be one of the participants over at Bart’s weblog.
There I will be persistently asking if we have evidence that the phenomena you describe so well are unusual and making much of the brevity of the historical record regarding them.
Again, thank you for a very clear contribution to the climate discussion.
April 29, 2018 at 14:05
Dear Judith
“one question in mind, is our cold bitter winter season in the Netherlands ultimately caused by global warming?”
Well, this winter season was’t cold bitter. Look at this link : https://www.knmi.nl/nederland-nu/klimatologie/lijsten/hellmann. This winterseason has rank 75, as you can see, A very normal winter in the Netherlands.
Look also at this link: https://www.knmi.nl/over-het…/natte-europese-winter-2017-2018
So your question is biased
Greetings Jan
April 17, 2019 at 22:27
The student blog is running again!
https://auclimate.wordpress.com/
Posts range from circular economy to climate impacts on caribou and from electric cars to conspiracy theories.