Bundle Up, It’s Global Warming

[CLANG]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26cohen.html?src=me&ref=general

How can we reconcile this? The not-so-obvious short answer is that the overall warming of the atmosphere is actually creating cold-weather extremes. Last winter, too, was exceptionally snowy and cold across the Eastern United States and Eurasia, as were seven of the previous nine winters.

For a more detailed explanation, we must turn our attention to the snow in Siberia.

Annual cycles like El Niño/Southern Oscillation, solar variability and global ocean currents cannot account for recent winter cooling. And though it is well documented that the earth’s frozen areas are in retreat, evidence of thinning Arctic sea ice does not explain why the world’s major cities are having colder winters.

But one phenomenon that may be significant is the way in which seasonal snow cover has continued to increase even as other frozen areas are shrinking. In the past two decades, snow cover has expanded across the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Siberia, just north of a series of exceptionally high mountain ranges, including the Himalayas, the Tien Shan and the Altai.

[Creative]

1. The weather changes, what's new?

[Lorien]

8. if you really were creative

you would find a better use for your time.

[Botany]

2. More snow in certain areas is proof of global climate change

Warmer air can hold more moisture than colder air ergo you get more
snow in areas that used to not get as much snow. In some areas that
pick up snow from moisture off the Great Lakes more snow will be seen
because the lakes are not freezing over as they used to freeze which shut
down the snow making machinery of the Lakes after early to mid January
when the lakes "iced over."

[geckosfeet]

3. I think the more generally accepted (and accurate) term is climate change.

[whathehell]

5. and I suspect that's only because

the dumb freeps often confuse "weather" with "climate" and use that as a reason to be skeptical of "global warming".

[Lorien]

7. I see them everywhere "Al Gore can bite my ass-it's freezing out there!"

They don't get it and won't get it, so it's useless to try to explain anything more complicated that the rules of WWF wrestling to them.

[Kokonoe]

4. IMHO (layman) Co2 traps heat And Cold.

But I never hear anything about Co2 trapping cold.:eyes:

[jwirr]

6. The climate is changing - giant storms in the summer and in the winter.

Here in MN we know from past history that it snows when it warms up not when it is deathly cold. The giant storms could be the result of warmer winters. Just degrees warmer makes a lot of difference.

[fatbuckel]

9. And those unable or unwilling to adapt will simply die off.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Human magnified Global Warming is the disease, climate changes are the symptoms,

just as the human body can alternately go through both fevers and chills during illness.

Thanks for the thread, CLANG.