It’s a long way from the Arctic Ocean to southern Alberta, but scientists are increasingly intrigued by theories that link disappearing sea ice to off-the-hook weather such as last week’s flooding. Many are coming to believe there’s a common thread bet…
Blame the jet stream for wacky weather
Lately, it no longer seems like we have "weather," at least in that comforting, steady-state way we used to understand it. Now, it feels like we lurch from one episodic extreme to another, from superstorm to record snowfalls to drought. Weird w…