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In the UK just two years ago news declared “Winter is Dead”, and cited that children will now grow up not knowing what snow is except in rare circumstances. They even interviewed Dr Nigel Taylor, curator of Kew Gardens. Kew has a great amount of waterlily data and is referenced often by WGI. This December of course Britain and much of Europe is having one of the coldest and snowiest Decembers in more than 100 years.

On the news this year you might have heard that March-June was possibly the warmest ever in the continental United States. How convenient if you leave out the cold months where Jan & Feb were bitter and ad only above normal months you get above normal news events. If you look at many articles over the past few years news organizations and scientists are overdoing climate change. The name itself is funny as “global warming” has been changed to “climate change” since not all parts of the earth are participating. The ice over Antarctica around the south pole reaches new records in size many years while the artic areas have seen record lows.

The only conclusive satellite data goes back just 31 years to 1979 for precise measurements. The majority of the time period both the Atlantic and Pacific were in warm PDO’s and now the Pacific and soon the Atlantic will be moving into there cold PDO’s.

The sunspot solar cycle has been at a minimum for nearly 18 months. That is longer than normal and if it persists would be somewhat similar to the lack of sunspots during the little ice age.

There are many great sources following the collapse of the global warming theory that CO2 causes much of any warming. “Watt’s Up With That” follows the global sea ice data, solar cycles and ocean temperatures like la nina and el nino that seem to have drastically more to do with warming and cooling. Joe Bastardi the big head honcho at AccuWeather also like to follow more relevant data and posts weekly or more often with amazing accuracy most of the time.

Fall Temperatures

In the UK just two years ago news declared “Winter is Dead”, and cited children will now grow up not knowing what snow is except in rare circumstances.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-512896/Winters-dead-spring-brought-forward-says-Kew-Gardens.html

The earth goes through cycles, the sun goes through cycles, both of which probably have more to do with climate conditions than a gas in the atmosphere that is equivalent in size to the other gases as a hair on the Brooklyn bridge.

As the Atlantic ocean goes into its cold PDO over the next few years more snow should result in the UK and other factors such as more sea ice near the north pole should result. If the solar cycle stays low that may also help.