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Originally Posted by mgtarheels
BBC is one source.
Latif believes it'll rebound much worse than expected, though.
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link? if its from the bbc why didn't google news have it, i wonder?
many of the models describe a high probability of increased cold in northern europe. so his statements make sense if he was talking about a region.
I was just reading about that today.
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press...ures-in-winter
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The overall warming of the earth's northern half could result in cold winters. The shrinking of sea-ice in the eastern Arctic causes some regional heating of the lower levels of air ? which may lead to strong anomalies in atmospheric airstreams, triggering an overall cooling of the northern continents, a study recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research shows. ?These anomalies could triple the probability of cold winter extremes in Europe and northern Asia,? says Vladimir Petoukhov, lead author of the study and climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. ?Recent severe winters like last year?s or the one of 2005-06 do not conflict with the global warming picture, but rather supplement it.?
The researchers base their assumptions on simulations with an elaborate computer model of general circulation, ECHAM5, focusing on the Barents-Kara Sea north of Norway and Russia where a drastic reduction of ice was observed in the cold European winter of 2005-06.
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if he is talking about the planet as a whole, the dissonance in measurements has to be explained first.