Hi Mal:
Big freeze: Temperatures plummet to -10C bringing travel chaos across Britain | Mail Online
^I'm Certain that somewhere in the World they are Enjoying Record High Temps...
And algore will probably point to that...
Or Blame a New Ice Age on Global Warming...
What a Dipshit he is.
peace...
The explanation for the colder temperatures is easy to understand once you realize that the "
Oceanic Conveyor Belt" (
Oceanmotion.org) is slowing down. Global warming caused the ice caps to melt at increasing rates (
picture), which decreases the capacity for melting ice later down the road. The smaller northern ice caps means less cold water to feed the Oceanic Conveyor Belt,
which slows down the Oceanic Currents and sends less warm water to the north pole. Less warm water going north means the colder winter temperatures, until the ice caps begin to grow again.
We are now entering a miniature Ice Age that must run its course for the ice caps to grow and accumulate sufficient ice reserves to eventually melt and speed up the circulating ocean currents again.
GL,
Terral
This is one factor in climate control globally, but not the only one. In any event, the speed of the oceans' conveyor is such that a slow down would be hard to notice as the water that sinks right now near Greenland will not Surface north of Japan for about 2000 years.
The Gulf Stream contributes to this current, but the surface effects of the Gulf and the deep water movements of the Conveyor are separate. The speed and local volume of the Gulf Stream are greater than the conveyor
The formation of the Great Conveyor in its current form was probably a product of the closure of the Isthmus of Panama which triggered the cycling Ice Ages about a million or so years ago.
The Little Ice Age is also concurrent with the Maunder Minimum which was a time, some think, of reduced Solar Activity and Insolation.
Our climate is the result of a myriad of interactions from a myriad of causes and a myriad of the resulting effects which in turn become causes for other effects and so on. Tagging one as the absolute root cause, unless that one thing is the Sun, will never stand up to logic.