Global Warming=More Snow ???

Question

With global warming shaking up the weather in so many different ways, does this mean that we may be getting some more snow than usual in Great Britain?

Answer 1

Global warming shifts the weather patterns. Some places are colder, some are hotter. Some have more moisture, some have less.

Snow flakes are larger when the termperature is just below freezing, so warmer air might mean more snow. In addition, warmer air picks up more moisture, and that can cause more snow.

I think England and Europe have a problem different from most areas. Europe is kept warm in the winter by the Atlantic Gulf Stream. When that stream slows down, Europe gets colder. Much colder. If the stream stops, then Europe has an ice age.

The gulf stream has stopped in the past. When the ice sheet covering North America melted, the cold fresh water rushing into the North Atlantic stopped the Gulf Stream and caused a dramatic climate shift in Europe. Such a shift is only thought to take four or five years to complete. Right now, the ice sheet covering Greenland is melting quickly, the North Atlantic is getting less salty, the Gulf Stream is slowing down and Europe is getting colder. Worst case estimates stop the Gulf Stream in just a couple of years. It is highly likely that within your lifetime, probably in the next ten years, England will be as cold as Iceland is now.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Global warming is really a misnomer. The proper term is climate change. The increase in the overall temperature of the earth affects the ocean currents which intern have a massive effect on climate and weather conditions. A slight change in these currents can and often does result in a change in the climate that is affected by that particular current. So as strange as it may sound the warming of the worlds oceans can result in some areas getting colder than normal weather conditions.

Answer 3

Well, actually yes. Because at the moment the ocean current that sends you warm weather, might just turn off so your country and countries around you might go into an Ice Age. Meaning, that for some decades, you will be living like you're in the Arctic.
Of course, this will probably not happen in your lifetime, unless of course you are just born and you plan to live for another century.

Answer 4

Global warming is supposed to mean the globe is getting hotter'
But whenever it suits the tree huggers it can mean just the opposite.
Just like the Christian religion really, they have two bibles, if one doesn't suit they can refer us to the other.
Now these ozone folks tell us that the ice all over the world is melting, so it's warming up?
Then a week or so there was a massive hailstone down pour, in some place , so it's getting colder?
At the end of the ice age most of the planet lost it's ice! Am I right ? I do know for a fact that around that time there were no cheap holiday flights, no cars, so what caused that.
Just one other thing that I cant seem to find an answer for , the govt' put a tax on fuel and flights to combat this emission , where is that money going, do they think they can use it to nip up to this ozone layer and repair it??
I am amazed at the amount of folk that are taken in by this utter BS.
I have just had a glance at the two web sites, as mention by the answer below me, I've seen it all before but I had a quick glance again, both of course refer to the IPPC report, I'm still not at all impressed 'Scientific consensus'?
ozone layer 'very likely' to be the cause because of CO2 emmissions etc etc.
I also noticed that one thing which was not documented , and that are the views of individual scientists.
I wonder why? Maybe quite a few have set out to 'prove' this theory is not in fact the truth!
Of course scientists have never been wrong before have they??? I repeat BS!!

Answer 5

What it means is that global warming gets used as a catch-all for almost anything.

Skepticism is required for this topic. It's been around for longer then 30 years. It is the most politically and economically driven debate in its time. The debate is buried in political and economic agenda.

Unfortunately, these agendas create a bias and it effects the science, the data, and the scientist. It goes both ways as well whether you're right or left wing.

It would be wise to be leery of this debate and those who drive it.

I myself think that global warming is farce. Scientist aren't always right, they have opinions and agendas. Blind faith in the science and the scientist is pretty narrow minded.

Answer 6

could very well be see what these Global Warming Zealots forget to say is if the polar ice caps melt all that cold water would go into the ocean and cause Cold Water is heavier than Warm Water in the Atlantic it would flow and reverse the flow of the Mid Atlantic Current( or Gulf Stream) which England and my much beloved VA owe our warmer climates too you take that away and make it cold water current then our temps plumate

Answer 7

The temperature difference in the air changes hydrological cycles. When you have droughts and floods, they can be a result of the same thing.

The bottom line is that we don't want to generate heat atmospherically. Once you create it, it can never be destroyed and temperature interacts with other temperatures.

All of the laws are there except we couldn't see if we were generating heat. Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-heatgain.html to see building generating heat close to boiling temperature. We are reacting to the symptoms with air conditioning(refrigeration) and we are not discussing the heat generated. Heat rises and this extreme heat is radiating all day, all buildings, all states, provinces, cities. You will see at the link above the information Surface Temperature Monitoring was missing. Buildings aren't supposed to generate heat when there are paints, coatings, landscaping that could eliminate air conditioning need.

That heat is going to change weather.

Answer 8

I am in the UK and when I was little we used to get "real" snow, loads of it and it was deep with snow drifts! Now we rarely get anything even remotely like that, a slight little dusting and the whole of the UK grinds to a halt!

I think that global warming has made a difference, it seems like our summers are cooler and our winters are milder!

Answer 9

No, because global warming is making the earth HEAT UP. That means less snow, melting glaciers, rising sea level.

Answer 10

Yes don't you know that when the world warms up the temperature will go down.

I know I know you thought when something warms up temperature goes up but not according to global warming.

I must have got to the wrong science class in school like you did.