Warm Arctic, Cold Continents? It Sounds Counterintuitive, but Research Suggests it’s a Thing

By any measure, the Arctic has changed profoundly in the last 40 years, warming three times as fast as the global average, and losing billions of tons of summer sea ice and land-based glacier ice. Now scientists suspect that rapid warming in the Arctic is causing more climate extremes farther south, including bouts of severe cold and snow, which researchers call “warm Arctic, cold continents.”