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Explainer: Why is it so cold, even though climate change is making the world hotter?
SKY News ^ | December 12, 2022 | By Victoria Seabrook, Climate reporter

Posted on 12/12/2022 6:12:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

In case you hadn't noticed, it's cold at the moment in the UK. Very cold.

Parts of the UK are blanketed in snow as temperatures hover only a few degrees above freezing in many places.

But many are wondering how it can be cold enough for snow - and for the snow to last - even though the planet is heating up.

The UK is already about 1°C hotter on average than in the 1950s. That shows in the fact we are getting less frost and snow.

Cold spells are also becoming shorter and less frequent and they are on track to decrease further still. Winters will also get warmer.

"Although becoming less frequent, days below freezing, known as ice days, will still be possible in the future, although they will be rarer," said Met Office climate scientist, Professor Lizzie Kendon.

Why is it so cold in spite of climate change?

Global heating is a long-term trend, but that does not dictate that each year is warmer than last.

There can still be fluctuations, and the UK's weather will remain characteristically variable, Prof. Kendon added.

We will still have some unusually cold days and nights, even as the climate heats up.

Although UK temperatures are below average at the moment, they are not that unusual for this time of year, the Met Office has confirmed.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: chat; climatechange; climatechangehoax; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; fakenews; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; newsforumabuse; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 12/12/2022 6:12:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Parts of the UK are blanketed in snow

... at least you have blankets....

2 posted on 12/12/2022 6:13:35 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
We will still have some unusually cold days and nights

Then they won't be so unusual, will they?

3 posted on 12/12/2022 6:14:13 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It used to be global warming, then it was manmade global change.

The global elites will lie about weather disaster to get control AND your money.


4 posted on 12/12/2022 6:14:39 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
UK temperatures are below average at the moment, they are not that unusual for this time of year,

Seasons - how do they work?

5 posted on 12/12/2022 6:15:09 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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Because agw is BS…climate changes…always has, always will


6 posted on 12/12/2022 6:15:29 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Worst winter in 25 years so far in SW Montana.


7 posted on 12/12/2022 6:16:33 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All the heat is concentrated in Antarctica. That’s how science works. Man, get educated.


8 posted on 12/12/2022 6:16:40 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Global heating is a long-term trend, but that does not dictate that each year is warmer than last.

~~~

It also does not dictate that it's anthropogenic too!

But hay! It's cold outside. Can't let the mindless peons start thinking for themselves!
I rest my case:


9 posted on 12/12/2022 6:17:20 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Although becoming less frequent, days below freezing, known as ice days, will still be possible in the future, although they will be rarer,” said Met Office climate scientist, Professor Lizzie Kendon.

The Earth could slip into another Ice Age and these lunatics would be still trying to shore up their crap theories. There is only one reason they *believe* in global warming; there is big money involved in grants for “right thinking”.


10 posted on 12/12/2022 6:17:28 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Imagine being shocked and surprised temperatures get cold during winter...


11 posted on 12/12/2022 6:18:52 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (q11)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
All propaganda all of the time. You can't read a single science article on any area of science without “climate change” somehow being shoehorned into it.
12 posted on 12/12/2022 6:19:42 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: Kaiser8408a

No, they still prefer to say global warming. Openly. It’s not an accidental slip of tongue.


13 posted on 12/12/2022 6:19:52 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change is one of the greatest falsehoods ever perpetrated on the world.....right up there with covid shots are effective and all White people are born racist.

A 3 are total bullshit.


14 posted on 12/12/2022 6:20:00 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Worth noting: Global warming means chiefly a warmer Arctic and sub-Arctic, warmer winters and warmer nights. So summer nights may get a fraction of a degree warmer; winter days maybe a degree warmer, and winter nights several degrees warmer; summer day-time temperatures probably won’t budge any detectable amount.


15 posted on 12/12/2022 6:20:15 AM PST by dangus
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To: Izzy Dunne

The Sun’s rays strike in a pattern that is variable. The varition results in what we know as seasons.

i.e. there is seasonal temperature change


16 posted on 12/12/2022 6:21:38 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: Levy78

The freezing wind in the Black Hills of Wyoming never seems to stop.


17 posted on 12/12/2022 6:21:41 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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To: TnTnTn
"Because agw is BS…climate changes…always has, always will"

See the source image

That is a "Pigment of your imagination". You must be using the wrong "Computer Model".

18 posted on 12/12/2022 6:23:24 AM PST by guest7
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Evil lying scum.


19 posted on 12/12/2022 6:24:40 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: dangus
Dangus we are currently in a 2 1/2 million year old ice age and in an interglacial period named the Holocene. We are currently experiencing slightly warming trends during interglacial and within the next few thousand years, it will likely switch back to the glacial maximum. This is stare is being whipped up to enslave and impoverish us.


20 posted on 12/12/2022 6:27:13 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat)
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