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Just when you thought it was going to overheat due to man induced climate changes
Now We might be entering another LIA (Little Ice Age)
http://www.eworldpost.com/europe-is-exp ... 15546.html

If we hoped for a soft winter, a warning from Polish meteorologists gives us creeps. They believe this winter will be the coldest in the last 1000 years. In the 2010-2011 (winter) we can freeze more than ever.
All this because the change of oceanic current Gulfstream, that keeps a climatic equilibrum on Earth. Soon, the hot waters transported by Gulf Stream won’t fight the cold air from the Arctic Ocean. The first signs of the phenomena can already be seen in the Scandinavian Peninsula, the specialists say.

BMAONE23 wrote:Just when you thought it was going to overheat due to man induced climate changes
Now We might be entering another LIA (Little Ice Age)

Well, the world is still heating up. That doesn't stop local climate patterns, though. Indeed, as the world heats up, one predicted effect is colder, wetter winters in many places.

Swedish meteorologists have pooh-poohed that prediction by the Polish meteorologists. The Swedes say that you can't make that kind of exact predictions.

Nevertheless, my knowledgeable all-purpose scientific trivia-savvy colleague Arnost Rusek has long argued that if the Earth heats up, Scandinavia will become colder because the Golf Stream will stop streaming. He may be right for all I know. But that doesn't mean that the average temperature of the Earth won't keep rising.

Last winter was unusually cold in Scandinavia, particularly in southern Scandinavia where I live. For all of that, I still believe that December 2009 to, say, March 2010 may still have been the warmest global December to March period on record.

Ann

Ann wrote:Last winter was unusually cold in Scandinavia, particularly in southern Scandinavia where I live. For all of that, I still believe that December 2009 to, say, March 2010 may still have been the warmest global December to March period on record.

Last winter saw a cyclical pattern in the northern hemisphere where polar air was pushed down to temperate latitudes. The result was a very cold winter at those latitudes and a warmer pattern near the poles.

Ann wrote:
Last winter was unusually cold in Scandinavia, particularly in southern Scandinavia where I live.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=43235

Ann wrote:
For all of that, I still believe that December 2009 to, say, March 2010 may still have been the warmest global December to March period on record.

Quite possibly; it was certainly the warmest global September to May: