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This isn't just a local phenomenom but has affected globally in the northern latitudes north of 45 in seeing record lows not seen in decades.
The mini ice age starts here by David Rose:
This image of the UK taken from NASA's multi-national Terra satellite taken last week shows the extent of snow covering all of the country, a rare instance.
And then we have Rutgers University Global Snow Lab who reported that last month had the second greatest December Northern Hemisphere snow cover since records were started in 1966.
Read more at:
Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab
The thing is, no single climate model can ever predict when these arctic oscillations begin to "unravel" and spill its frigid cold contents southward globally across the northern latitudes with increasing frequency.
And then this is coupled with potential volcanic explosions like Mayon or even Redoubt located in Alaska to spew volcanic materials into the atmosphere reducing the amount of sun reaching the surface which calls for cooling for a few years a la Mt. Pinatubo.
And when the sun's energy output becomes less it produces less energetic magnetic fields which allows an increase in cosmic rays hit the Earth and see an increase in nuclei condensation that produces clouds and in turn means an increase in cloudiness and less sun to reach the surface which induces more cooling.
"SKY" experiment demonstrates link between cosmic rays and condensation nuclei! | ScienceBits
Cosmic ray decreases affect atmospheric aerosols and clouds
The Cosmic Climate Connection SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
If anything, I'd rather see warmer weather than colder ones due to the fact that more crops are lost to cold weather events and the fact that less land are able to be used for agriculture production in the more northernly latitudes. Cold weather is just more harsher on the human population than hot weather since we have clouds, rain, and AC to help us keep cool versus cold weather where we can only depend on heaters to keep us warm.
The mini ice age starts here by David Rose:
This image of the UK taken from NASA's multi-national Terra satellite taken last week shows the extent of snow covering all of the country, a rare instance.
Read more: DAVID ROSE: The mini ice age starts here | Mail OnlineLast week, as Britain froze, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband maintained in a parliamentary answer that the science of global warming was ‘settled’.
Among the most prominent of the scientists is Professor Mojib Latif, a leading member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has been pushing the issue of man-made global warming on to the international political agenda since it was formed 22 years ago.
Prof Latif, who leads a research team at the renowned Leibniz Institute at Germany’s Kiel University, has developed new methods for measuring ocean temperatures 3,000ft beneath the surface, where the cooling and warming cycles start.
He and his colleagues predicted the new cooling trend in a paper published in 2008 and warned of it again at an IPCC conference in Geneva last September.
Last night he told The Mail on Sunday: ‘A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles – perhaps as much as 50 per cent.
'They have now gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely. Summers will also probably be cooler, and all this may well last two decades or longer.
‘The extreme retreats that we have seen in glaciers and sea ice will come to a halt. For the time being, global warming has paused, and there may well be some cooling.’
As Europe, Asia and North America froze last week, conventional wisdom insisted that this was merely a ‘blip’ of no long-term significance.
Though record lows were experienced as far south as Cuba, where the daily maximum on beaches normally used for winter bathing was just 4.5C, the BBC assured viewers that the big chill was merely short-term ‘weather’ that had nothing to do with ‘climate’, which was still warming.
The work of Prof Latif and the other scientists refutes that view.
On the one hand, it is true that the current freeze is the product of the ‘Arctic oscillation’ – a weather pattern that sees the development of huge ‘blocking’ areas of high pressure in northern latitudes, driving polar winds far to the south.
Meteorologists say that this is at its strongest for at least 60 years
And then we have Rutgers University Global Snow Lab who reported that last month had the second greatest December Northern Hemisphere snow cover since records were started in 1966.
Read more at:
Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab
The thing is, no single climate model can ever predict when these arctic oscillations begin to "unravel" and spill its frigid cold contents southward globally across the northern latitudes with increasing frequency.
And then this is coupled with potential volcanic explosions like Mayon or even Redoubt located in Alaska to spew volcanic materials into the atmosphere reducing the amount of sun reaching the surface which calls for cooling for a few years a la Mt. Pinatubo.
And when the sun's energy output becomes less it produces less energetic magnetic fields which allows an increase in cosmic rays hit the Earth and see an increase in nuclei condensation that produces clouds and in turn means an increase in cloudiness and less sun to reach the surface which induces more cooling.
"SKY" experiment demonstrates link between cosmic rays and condensation nuclei! | ScienceBits
Cosmic ray decreases affect atmospheric aerosols and clouds
The Cosmic Climate Connection SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
If anything, I'd rather see warmer weather than colder ones due to the fact that more crops are lost to cold weather events and the fact that less land are able to be used for agriculture production in the more northernly latitudes. Cold weather is just more harsher on the human population than hot weather since we have clouds, rain, and AC to help us keep cool versus cold weather where we can only depend on heaters to keep us warm.