a more disorganized polar vortex leading to sudden cold snaps fueled by icy northern air pushed toward the equator. "As the Earth warms, the temperature difference between the Arctic and mid ...

Put Mt. Everest (28 deg North) at the latitude of Mt. McKinley (63 deg North) in the United States and it is likely that no climber would ever have been able to reach the summit breathing the ...

In general terms (Harte 1988), the energy absorbed by the Earth can be written as: E I = (1 – a) * Ω/4 ‘a' is ... is fastest at the equator and drops to zero at the poles.