February Post: Half Term

Snow: Global Warming, Ironic?

This winter the UK saw some of the worst snow we've had since 1963. We thought we had it bad in 2008 when we had "the worst snow in 20 years", but after it melted after a week or so things returned to normal. This winter, we were landed in the dogs trump not once, not twice, but several times in quick succession after snowfall came down quicker and thicker than anticipated, just after the roadsalt supplies had been exhausted. This brought the roads all over the country to a standstill, and thousands of cars were left stranded. It was almost like a scene from the end of the world.

But what this suggests to me, is somehow these progressively more snowy winters are a result of Global Warming. I'm not really sure why or how, but one theory is that our winter climate and summer climate are becoming more extreme, the amplitude of change is increasing, to what could be exponential, or just linear, hopefully the latter. If this was true, we could be expecting summers of more Meditterean and then African temperatures, and winters of more Icelandic, possibly even Arctic temperatures. The UK could become a "living" climate, of periglacial catagory, changing to arid. However, we would have to adapt. And I don't think we could do that.

However, on the summers front, I'm all for palm trees =)