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Title: GLOBAL WARMING? IT’S THE COLDEST WINTER IN DECADES
Source: Daily Express
URL Source: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view ... -the-coldest-winter-in-decades
Published: Feb 19, 2008
Author: Tony Bonnici
Post Date: 2008-02-19 20:43:11 by farmfriend
Ping List: *Agriculture-Environment*     Subscribe to *Agriculture-Environment*
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Views: 470
Comments: 26

GLOBAL WARMING? IT’S THE COLDEST WINTER IN DECADES

By Tony Bonnici

NEW evidence has cast doubt on claims that the world’s ice-caps are melting, it emerged last night.

Satellite data shows that concerns over the levels of sea ice may have been premature.

It was feared that the polar caps were vanishing because of the effects of global warming.

But figures from the respected US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that almost all the “lost” ice has come back.

Ice levels which had shrunk from 13million sq km in January 2007 to just four million in October, are almost back to their original levels.

Figures show that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than is usual for the time of year.

The data flies in the face of many current thinkers and will be seized on by climate change sceptics who deny that the world is undergoing global warming.

A photograph of polar bears clinging on to a melting iceberg has become one of the most enduring images in the campaign against climate change.

It was used by former US Vice President Al Gore during his Inconvenient Truth lectures about mankind’s impact on the world. But scientists say the northern hemisphere has endured its coldest winter in decades.

They add that snow cover across the area is at its greatest since 1966.

The one exception is Western Europe, which has – until the weekend when temperatures plunged to as low as -10C in some places – been basking in unseasonably warm weather. The UK has reported one of its warmest winters on record.

However, vast swathes of the world have suffered chaos because of some of the heaviest snowfalls in decades.

Central and southern China, the USA and Canada were hit hard by snowstorms.

Even the Middle East saw snow, with Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman and northern Saudi Arabia reporting the heaviest falls in years and below-zero temperatures. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan snow and freezing weather killed 120 people.

In Britain the barmy February weather came to an abrupt halt at the weekend as temperatures plunged to -10C in central England.

Experts believe that this month could end up as one of the coldest Februaries in Britain in the past 10 years.

The freezing night-time conditions look set to stay around -8C until at least the middle of the week.

A Met Office spokesman explained: “There has been little or no cloud cover across England and Wales. So there is a capacity for a fair bit of heat to be able to escape at night.

“It has been warmer in Scotland but that’s because it has been cloudy there.

“Until the weekend the temperatures were in the 14s and 15s, and we will see a return to that later this week, though it will look grey and overcast when the clouds return.”

But he added that there was little chance of snow. He said: “When the rain comes it will get warmer.” Subscribe to *Agriculture-Environment*

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#5. To: farmfriend (#0)

But figures from the respected US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that almost all the “lost” ice has come back.

I don't have a Ph.D in Climatology or anything but I wonder it that has anything to do with it being winter?

wbales  posted on  2008-02-19   22:30:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: wbales (#5)

I don't have a Ph.D in Climatology or anything but I wonder it that has anything to do with it being winter?

LOL! Partially. What is significant is the current lack of sun spots. Most of the scientists I talk to think we are heading into another Dalton type minimum. This could be devastating to our agriculture. Global warming, natural or otherwise, would not have been the problem that global cooling will be. The Earth was warming during the medieval warm period, climate optimum.

Solar cycle 24

farmfriend  posted on  2008-02-19   23:11:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: farmfriend (#7)

The Earth was warming during the medieval warm period, climate optimum.

Probably all those SUV's and big factories that caused all that. ;^)

James Deffenbach  posted on  2008-02-20   8:55:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#13. To: James Deffenbach (#8)

What's Algore's solution for Global Winding?

Man, it's blowin that ice cold air right through us out here in Ohio

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