Is global warming causing harsher winters?

nation.com ^ | March 29, 2013 | Richard Ingham, Claire Snegaroff

[Berlin_Freeper]

Millions of people in northern Europe are still battling snow and ice, wondering why they are being punished with bitter cold when - officially - spring has arrived and Earth is in the grip of global warming.

Yet some scientists, eyeing the fourth year in a row of exceptionally harsh late-winter weather in parts of Europe and North America, suggest warming is precisely the problem.

In a complex tango between ocean and atmosphere, warming is causing icy polar air to be displaced southwards, they contend.

“The linkage is becoming clearer and clearer, I think, although the science has not yet been settled,” said Dim Coumou of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) near Berlin.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Crazies

[Berlin_Freeper]

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[Northern Yankee]

Are they serious?

[Jim Noble]

“Earth is in the grip of global warming”

Amazing. Just amazing.

[Rocky]

Up is down
Black is white
Right is wrong
Evil is good; good is evil

The twisting world of the Left.

[mindburglar]

You knew this was coming when it went from manmade global warming to manmade climate change.

The data wasn’t supporting their claims. Now they just make up the data and use cool terms like “polar vortex”. Sounds scary.

We’ve unleashed the polar vortex and the second chokra! Run!

[Focault's Pendulum]

We've unleashed the polar vortex and the second chokra! Run!

Release the craken!!!

[RedHeeler]

Good. Prepare yourselves. This false flag is going to be imposed. Take good care, to prepare everyone you can reach with rational planning.

[GraceG]

GREAT!! we could use the extra moisture!!!!!

[GraceG]

Solar CYCLE!!!!

[AlexW]

Of course.....Gorebal warming causes rain, snow, bunions,
as well as insanity. Obumbo gets elected twice....Gorebal Warming, I tellya...Were all gonna die.
If we can just get some global cooling, there want be so many of us left to complain.

[Jonty30]

According to physics, because global warming lowers the differences between any two areas, there should be less storms and those storms should be less severe.

[jimfree]

In climate science tenuous links are determinative, faked data is okay if it proves the point.

[DeaconRed]

NO NO NO
It's not Global Warming its George Bush that is causing the problem. . . . . s

[justa-hairyape]

Do they realize what happens if you go far enough north. At the North Pole. How much cold air is at the North Pole morons ? What is the volume. How does that stand a chance at freezing the vast tundra of Siberia ? Or Canada for that matter. Geez people. We are living on a sphere. North ends at one point. South ends at one point.

[Stepan12]

Global warming has taken the place of the deity for Liberals. Every event from cooling to warming to hurricanes is linked to it.

There is no event that would falsify this greatest fraud in human history.

[HerrBlucher]

Global warming causes global cooling. Its a zen koan. Meditate on it and you will be enlightened.

[Dixie Yooper]

“The linkage is becoming clearer and clearer, I think, although the science has not yet been settled,” said Dim Coumou of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) near Berlin.

I thought the debate was over?

[JohnnyP]

Dim is aptly named.

[Dixie Yooper]

I never really liked this bumper sticker back in the 90’s, but it explains this whole changing climate thing a whole lot better than any scientist has... “$hit Happens”