Seattle researchers have discovered that warming of the Earth’s atmosphere seems to be shoving jet streams out of their normal tracks — a change that could expand deserts and profoundly affect the world’s weather patterns.

An article in the journal of Science claims that over the past 27 years, the jet streams, which steer storms to temperate zones in both hemispheres, have shifted about one degree toward the poles, or about 70 miles.
Co-author John M. Wallace, says that if the jet streams continue to migrate away from the equator, wider swaths of the planet will almost certainly become hotter and drier. The movement may already be playing a role in recent droughts in the American Southwest, the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

Global warming is more than just an “inconvenient truth,” it is a deadly phenomenon that will wreak havoc on human society.