Experts: Cold snap doesn't disprove global warming

Associated Press ^ | 1/6/2010 | MALCOLM RITTER

[Plane_Guy]

Beijing had its coldest morning in almost 40 years and its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap since 1981. And freezing weather is gripping the Deep South, including Florida's orange groves and beaches.

Whatever happened to global warming?

Such weather doesn't seem to fit with warnings from scientists that the Earth is warming because of greenhouse gases. But experts say the cold snap doesn't disprove global warming at all — it's just a blip in the long-term heating trend.

"It's part of natural variability," said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. With global warming, he said, "we'll still have record cold temperatures. We'll just have fewer of them."

[Williford]

Just “Newspeak” as found in Orwell’s book.

[piytar]

Exactly correct. Too bad many of these “scientists” wouldn’t have any idea what you are talking about.

[mlbford2]

all you need is a drip. even if it freezes u r ok. pipes burst not from the ice pushing against the pipes but the liquid water pressing against the pipes down the line from the ice. all you need to do is relieve the water pressure. just fyi

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Can’t flush toilets if it freezes.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I sleep in spurts, about time I get comfortable something starts hurting.

[gardengirl]

I hear you! Getting there myself. Hate to think what it’s going to be like when I really get old! Too much rough housing when I was little with the much bigger male cousins and neighbors, too much climbing/falling in and out of trees, getting thrown too many times by horses, too much.... LOL

Here’s wishing you a good night’s sleep!