Well , this post of mine is NOT about manmade global warming and it has no political context . My interest is only in knowing the truth about our planet , regardless of whichever point of view it supports . The first part of my post is about what happened just last winter (in 2016) on the North Pole region of the Earth...while Siberia and Greenland were freezing cold, the North Pole was 20 degrees centigrade above normal !!
Further down in this same post , I have again enclosed a thermal image of the "Hot Spot" at Saturn's North Pole , for comparison purposes . Now unless , someone believes that Saturn too is experiencing "manmade global warming" (!!) at it's Poles and similarly the Polar regions of Jupiter , Uranus , Neptune , Venus etc. too are experiencing manmade global warming , then I rest my case :))
Folks , isn't it clear , doesn't this prove that ALL planets are hollow and their Polar hot spots are caused by heat emanating from their Polar openings ??
The North Pole is an insane 20 C warmer than normal as winter descends
It is polar night in the high arctic, when the sun doesn’t rise and winter sets in, but temperatures there are stubbornly, shockingly high.With winter darkness set in, Arctic temperatures were up to 20 C warmer than normal on Friday. (Climate Change Institute / University of Maine) By Chris Mooney
Jason SamenowThe Washington PostFri., Nov. 18, 2016
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WASHINGTON—It’s polar night in the Arctic right now. That’s when the sun doesn’t rise and temperatures are supposed to get supercold, when the sea ice that covers the vast Arctic Ocean should grow and thicken.But in fall 2016 something is totally off. The Arctic is superhot, even as a vast area of cold polar air has been displaced over Siberia.At the same time, one of the key indicators of the state of the Arctic — the extent of sea ice covering the polar ocean — is at a record low right now. The ice is freezing up again, as it always does this time of year after reaching its post-summer low, but it isn’t doing so as rapidly as usual.In fact, the ice’s area is even lower than it was during the record-low 2012.Arctic sea ice extent is tracking lower than at this time during the record-low year of 2012.Arctic watchers are stunned. Zack Labe, a PhD student at the University of California at Irvine who studies the Arctic, tweeted out an image on Wednesday from the Danish Meteorological Institute showing Arctic temperatures about 20 C higher than normal above 80 degrees North Latitude.“Today’s latest #Arctic mean temperature continues to move the wrong direction ... up. Quite an anomalous spike!,” Labe wrote.Daily mean temperatures for the Arctic north of the 80th northern parallel show a spike at a time when supercold winter weather would typically set in.“Despite onset of #PolarNight, temperatures near #NorthPole increasing. Extraordinary situation right now in #Arctic, w/record low #seaice,” added Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA.This is the second year in a row that temperatures near the North Pole have risen to freakishly warm levels. During 2015’s final days, the temperature near the Pole spiked to the melting point thanks to a massive storm that pumped warm air into the region.
So what’s going on here?“It’s about 20C warmer than normal over most of the Arctic Ocean, along with cold anomalies of about the same magnitude over north-central Asia,” Jennifer Francis, an Arctic specialist at Rutgers University, said by email Wednesday.“The Arctic warmth is the result of a combination of record-low sea-ice extent for this time of year, probably very thin ice, and plenty of warm/moist air from lower latitudes being driven northward by a very wavy jet stream.”Francis has published research suggesting that the jet stream, which travels from west to east across the Northern Hemisphere in the mid-latitudes, is becoming more wavy and elongated as the Arctic warms faster than the equator does.“It will be fascinating to see if the stratospheric polar vortex continues to be as weak as it is now, which favours a negative Arctic Oscillation and probably a cold mid/late winter to continue over central and eastern Asia and eastern North America. The extreme behaviour of the Arctic in 2016 seems to be in no hurry to quit,” Francis continued.Francis cited the work of Judah Cohen, a forecaster with Atmospheric and Environmental Research, who has linked odd jet stream behaviour with cold air over Siberia.Indeed, another Arctic expert, James Overland with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said that the jet stream at the moment is well configured to transport warmth northward into the Arctic. “There is strong warm advection into the Arctic, especially northern-central Canada, in through the Atlantic, and east Siberian/Chukchi Sea,” Overland said.The situation is extreme, several experts agreed.“Both the persistence and magnitude of these temperature anomalies are quite unusual,” Labe added by email. “Large variability in temperatures are common in the Arctic (especially during the cold-season), but the duration of this warm Arctic — cold Siberia pattern is unusual and quite an impressive cryosphere/sea ice feedback.” (The “cryosphere” refers to that part of the Earth’s system that is made up of ice.)Abnormally warm air has flooded the Arctic since October. Richard James, a meteorologist who pens a blog on Alaska weather, analyzed 19 weather stations surrounding the Arctic Ocean and found that the average temperature was about 2 C above the record set in 1998.Since November, temperatures have risen even higher. “It is amazing to see that the warmth has become even more pronounced since the end of October,” James wrote on his blog.Mark Serreze, who heads the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, agrees that something odd is going on. Not only are air temperatures unusually warm, but water temperatures are as well. “There’s some areas in the Arctic Ocean that are as much as (14 C) above average now,” Serreze said. “It’s pretty crazy.”What’s happening, he explains, is sort of a “double whammy.” On the one hand, there is a “very warm underlying ocean” due to the lack of sea ice forming above it. But, at the same time, kinks in the jet stream have allowed warm air to flow northward and frigid Arctic air to descend over Siberia.“The sea ice is at a record low right now, for this time of year, that’s one thing,” Serreze said. “And why it’s so low — again, there’s so much heat in the upper ocean in these ice free areas, the ice just can’t form right now. The ocean’s just got to get rid of this heat somehow, and it’s having a hard time doing so.”The situation this winter could set the Arctic’s ice up for very thin conditions and a possible record low next year, Serreze said, although it’s too soon to say.The weather in the Arctic can change swiftly. Temperatures could cool and the ice could rebound.But the record-low sea ice extent and unprecedented warmth in the region fit in well with recent trends and portend even more profound changes in the coming years.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/saturn_hotspot-cap20080103.html
Saturn's North Pole Hot Spot and Hexagon01.03.08
This image shows the unexpected "hot spot" at Saturn's north pole. Scientists were surprised to find that the north pole, despite being in winter darkness for more than a decade, is home to a hot, cyclonic vortex very similar to that found on Saturn's much sunnier south pole.
Created with data from the Cassini spacecraft's composite infrared spectrometer, this image, centered on the north pole, shows temperatures in Saturn's northern hemisphere near its 100-millibar tropopause, the top of its convective layer.
The false color denotes temperatures from 72 to 84 Kelvin (about 330 to 310 degrees below zero Fahrenheit). Latitudes are displayed from 30 degrees N at the edges to the north pole in the center. The hot pole is clear at the center of the projection. The distinctive polar hexagon is also evident in the initial warm "ring" around the pole between 75 and 80 degrees North latitude.
Although there is a similar hot pole in the southern hemisphere, there is no hexagon and the atmosphere is otherwise much warmer than in the north, having been heated during Saturn's southern summer for over a decade.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The composite infrared spectrometer team is based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . The composite infrared spectrometer team homepage is http://cirs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ .Image Credit: NASA/JPL/GSFC/Oxford University
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