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Originally Posted by Aquilus
Of cause not, If you can recognize these cold winters for 5 or then years, then it may be an indicator for a climatic change, and thats not the case, at least until now.
On the other side you can see the north pole melting, every year, as well as the glaciers. THATS a difference.
Generally global warming and cold winters are no opposites, at least for Europe. If the north pole melts the Gulf Stream most probably become weaker due to the lack of ice and the bunch of freshwater. So Europe's 'Heating' will become weaker and that can cause cold winters.
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Except that no one knows if the pole really has been melting. Ammundson sailed the northwest passage a century ago when it was free of ice, so there was obviously less polar ice then than there is now.
The only true records we have of polar ice levels are satellite imagery which dates back only to 1979, and 30 years is too short a time period to judge a trend. You might be interested to know that about 50,000 square miles of sea ice has returned to the arctic region, and that ice levels in the interior of the antarctic are now at the highest levels ever recorded. These two facts argue against any global warming.
Added to this once again is that the current cold weather is exactly the opposite of what
all of the IPCC climate models have predicted. According to the UN's IPCC, the last 10 years should have been progressively warmer, when in fact they have been progressively cooler.
2010 is supposed to be the hottest year in history. What do you think?