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Less Summer Arctic Sea Ice Cover May Mean Some Colder, Snowier Winters in Central Europe [For Now]
[T]he probability of cold winters with much snow in Central Europe rises when the Arctic is covered by less sea ice in summer. Scientists of the Research Unit Potsdam of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association have decrypted a mechanism in which a shrinking summertime sea ice cover changes the air pressure zones in the Arctic atmosphere and impacts our European winter weather. These results of a global climate analysis were recently published in a study in the scientific journal Tellus A.
That’s the news release for yet another new study examining what will inevitably be the huge implications for extreme weather from the massive amount of heat released by the declining Arctic sea ice cover.
Is Climate Change Bringing the Arctic to Europe?
Seeded on Mon Feb 6, 2012 6:31 PM EST
Article Source: Think Progress
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The sea ice chart -
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png
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#1 - Mon Feb 6, 2012 6:45 PM ESTMy guess is that the warming trend will return after about 2020. It's not as warm as the medieval warm period yet. Once the current warming trend ends, we'll go back into another little ice age. Of course, eventually we'll go into another glaciation period for about 100,000 years. My guess is based on the fact that the climate is cyclical, not linear.
#2 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 2:41 PM ESTWhatever the cause, it is bad timing for European economies according to many analysts.
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