Speaking of Global Warming

[Artegal 1]

After the non-existent Hurricane season this year--this week is the coldest day in December ever recorded in Atlanta. I guess I will worry about Al Qada, or that Asteroid that is coming in 2029. Global Warming fear/fiasco up there with the past threats of Killer Bees, Spontaneous Combustion, MadCow Disease, SARS, West Nile Virus, Bird Flu, and Y2K bug.

Edited December 8, 2006 by Artegal

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

i could use a little global warming here in kansas too!

After the non-existent Hurricane season this year--this week is the coldest day in December ever recorded in Atlanta. I guess I will worry about Al Qada, or that Asteroid that is coming in 2029. Global Warming fear/fiasco up there with the past threats of Killer Bees, Spontaneous Combustion and Y2K bug.

[GaryC 7]

It's 0deg F here right now. I WISH we were having global warming! I hate winter!

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

This morning I saw a glacier in NY. I'm leaving my car running all day to generate greenhouse gases. We sure need it.

[Heracles 417]

This morning I saw a glacier in NY. I'm leaving my car running all day to generate greenhouse gases. We sure need it.

:lol:

[Ladylethal 12]

Actually, global warming can still be going on and us having really cold seasons.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Europe, on the other hand, is experiencing the warmest Autumn in forever...

No Winter for Europe

Central Europe is experiencing its warmest winter in 500 years and the Alps haven't been this warm in over a millenneum. Ski resorts are suffering, as are the bears.

Only two weeks before the official start of winter, Europe is sweating. An unusually warm autumn -- which was last week credited for Germany's fourth quarter economic surge -- is forcing ski resorts to market hiking holidays, and bears to seek out places cold enough to hibernate.

Indeed, Germany is experiencing its warmest autumn in 500 years. Germany's average temperature from September to November this year was 12 degrees Celsius (54 degrees Fahrenheit), a full 3.2 Celsius degrees higher than the median temperature from 1961 to 1990.

Scientists are basing the claim on temperature records -- collected as far back as 1659 -- and information derived from other sources like monks' journals in old monasteries. "Weather historians have assembled all the available information for each given month," Jürg Luterbacher, a climate researcher with the University of Bern climate researcher, told SPIEGEL ONLINE.

More importantly, Germany's not alone. "An exceptionally warm autumn in a region proves very little," Luterbacher told the online magazine Nature. "But the data are consistent for the whole of Europe -- from Iceland to Greece."

Alps are warmest in 1,300 years

Indeed, Germany's warm autumn is only part of a larger trend. Reinhard Böhm, a climatologist at Austria's Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, says Europe's Alps are warmer today than anytime in the past 1,300 years.

A group of European institutes have reconstructed more than a millennium of weather patterns in the region from France's Rhone Valley in the west to Hungary in the east, and from Germany's Nuremberg area in the north to Italy's Tuscany in the south. Their research found relatively stable temperatures over that time, aside from a warm spell between the 10th and 12th centuries. But, according to Böhm, even that phase was "slightly under the temperatures we've experienced in the past 20 years."

Warmest Autumn in Forever

Your Winter Resorts in the Alps are not what they used to be:

Too warm for snow machiones even

Germany in December?