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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Thursday, despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards.
The bitter cold, with more intense winter weather forecast for March in parts of the United States, have led some to question if global warming has stalled.
Understanding the overall trend is crucial for estimating consumption of energy supplies, such as demand for winter heating oil in the U.S. northeast, and impacts on agricultural production.
"It's not warming the same everywhere but it is really quite challenging to find places that haven't warmed in the past 50 years," veteran Australian climate scientist Neville Nicholls told an online climate science media briefing.
"January, according to satellite (data), was the hottest January we've ever seen," said Nicholls of Monash University's School of Geography and Environmental Science in Melbourne.
-NAO/-AO couplet always trumps ENSO across the pond. You should know that.
For God's sake can you lot stop jumping all over me please
I never said I didn't know that or imply it. I know all about the negative sea temperatures in the Atlantic and the Atlantic's inflence on our weather.
My point was that already people are saying that global warming must be directlyresponsible for the cold spell, which is uninformed conjecture. So stop misinterpreting everything I say
As for you MrMarbles your post does nothing to change my point which was NOT that "cold spells won't happen with global warming" as you have interpreted it to be, but that it's stupid to blame global warming for absolutely everything including the cold spell.
I swear some of you need to go back to school as you can't read for crap. Or, you just love to jump to conclusions.
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El Nino has been good to me! What an awesome winter it's been. The most snow I've seen since I was moved from Michigan 10 years ago fell in February, the temperature has only reached 70+ degrees six times since December 1 (compared to the time period from December 1 to March 3 of past years when our area had 15 in 06-07, 28 in 07-08, and 26 in 08-09), and there haven't been any tornado warnings so far. I'm certainly content.
Toronto has not reached 10 C/50 F since December 2nd, 2009.
We might hit 10 C/50 F tommorrow; March 6th, 2010
Even more amazing is that I haven't been angry about our temps staying that low.
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