Just to say, the clathrate gun has probably gone off.
The shallow sea up between Alaska and Russia is now outgassing methane, and it is producing a stationary high pressure ridge somehow. That weather front has been there for 3 years now, pushing winter storm tracks down to the SW states. That is also hindering rain which may have fallen in California, ending up down in Mexico. There is another stationary high out by Iceland,just reported this year, perhaps caused by the same thing.
Also be aware that the big conference held last year in England on ocean feedbacks, dis-invited the two top field researchers, and only had academics present papers. Prime one is Sharkova, who has done fieldwork throughout the arctic.
http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/tag/ridiculously-resilient-ridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridiculously_Resilient_Ridge
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-unusual-weather-pattern-at-the-root-of-californias-drought
and the scientists discuss forcings at sea
I think that climate change is a situation where we should directly go to plan B. Plan A here is cutting emissions. It is not working, because it is very expensive and require cooperation of all sides. It also will have immediate results and the temperature will still grow by many reasons.
The plan B in climate change prevention is changing opacity of earth atmosphere. It could be surprisingly cheap and local. There are suggestions to put something as simple as sulfuric acid in the upper atmosphere to rise it reflection ability.
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