Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Last year the River Bann (tidal) froze over. the first time I had ever seen this!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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The last couple of winters have been cold, but the trend over the last 20 years is certainly for warmer winters in the UK.
I wouldn't write off the article as rubbish unless that trend is broken, which might take another 10 years of average/cold winters to demonstrate.
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Winters tend to come in clusters.
A cluster of warmer Winters followed by a cluster of colder ones.
Enjoy the colder ones while they last.
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Whitegold wrote: |
Winters tend to come in clusters.
A cluster of warmer Winters followed by a cluster of colder ones.
Enjoy the colder ones while they last. |
Should be the best part of 30 years as the oceans are just entering their cool phase
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Funny thing is that last years cold winter, with predominately easterly winds, was also a freak event.
Easterly weather systems, uninterrupted for 3 months, was unprecedented.
Does make me wonder if the gulf stream might be slowing down ?
Because the weather last winter (cold, not much wind) is something that no one has ever seen before.
Incidentally Scandinavia had a terrible ski season as a result (too cold and dry).
Whilst the southerly jet stream brought record snow fall, and also floods, to southern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Plus it was also one of the warmest years (globally) on record.
Best not to stick head in the sand - One cold winter doesn't mean the dangers of climate change have gone away!
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My layman's understanding of climate change/global warming is that gradual warming is accompanied by increasing climatic instability and extreme weather events. If this is the case we should expect the occasional very cold spell and big snowfalls mixed in with all the other extremes.
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My understanding of 'climate change' is that it has existed for at least the amount of time that fossil, ice core and mud samples can produce evidence for it. My understanding of 'global warming' is that it is a term applied to actual observed warming within the last 3 decades. I understood that as a reult of 'global warming' that I was to expect hotter, drier summers and milder, wetter winters, neither of which have happened in recent years but a lot of resource and money has been ploughed into its future mitigation by the Scottish government. After 4 shite (and I mean really shite) summers on the trot in this part of Scotland, I'd have probably welcomed perpetual autumns instead of winter as a payback for those decent summers but to now get my head around associating 'global warming' with very cold spells and big snowfalls is a bit of a stretch.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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its its warmer its man made global warming.. if its colder its climate change caused by man made global warmimg.. more tax for windmills please
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