If you are a climatologist, checking your work isn’t important.
“Recent severe winters like last year’s or the one of 2005-2006 do not conflict with the global warming picture, but rather supplement it,” explained Vladimir Petoukhov, lead author of the study and a physicist at the Potsdam Institute.
“These anomalies could triple the probability of cold winter extremes in Europe and north Asia,” he said.
The researchers created a computer model simulating the impact on weather patterns of a gradual reduction of winter ice cover in the Barents-Kara Sea, north of Scandinavia.
One minor problem, sea ice is normal in both of those seas.
Also,
Cold weather caused by high pressure in Barents/Kara sea , causing cold air to be funneled towards western Europe?
Sounds good in thoery, except there hasn’t been any high pressure in the Barents/Kara sea. Typically high pressure has been centered over Greenland and/or Scandinavia.
Typical warmist drivel. Falls at the first hurdle. In this case a lack of high pressure where the missing ice was said to cause it.
So no ice anomoly and no high pressure = complete warmist garbage.
Speaking of cold winters, you’ll want to check out this page and take note that Birmingham, AL’s first white Christmas, in recorded history, was today December 25th 2010.
Climate Change is worse than we thought!
Although unusual, the patterns causing the cold weather in Europe are by no means unprecedented. They have been observed before.
Since we are repeatedly told that levels of Arctic sea ice are lower than they have ever been, it is clear that previous events of this nature could NOT have been caused by a reduction in ice cover.
Epic fail.
It’s climate disruption don’t you know!
The only way to deal with these obvious frauds and charlatans is to take the pi$$ out of ’em.
Maybe we should create a mock-up iPod app called last minute excuses.
“Instant excuses for the missus, generated by the Met Office Super Computers, only 99cents”
The missus – “Where the ‘ell you bin George? You stink of alcohol.”
George – “errrr a Dewars truck flipped over on the highway, helped the driver to get away.”
The missus – “Why haven’t you mowed the lawns George?”
George – “errrr the Met Office says we’re bout to have a scorcher. Short lawns will get burnt off.”
The missus – “It’s the middle of January George”
George – “errr the Met Office says it’s the blocking high over Outer Mongolia.”
They magically reduced the sea ice coverage from 99% to 1% and then looked at what happened in their model. I believe this is the signature of the famous GIGO weather pattern, but since I could be wrong PIK should ask for a bigger supercomputer from the German government so they can confirm this.
Here’s another way “manmade global warming” works: say something is happening in the world that really isn’t happening, then say a second thing is happening that was caused by that first thing that wasn’t happening. Just imagine the possibilities. Why, doing things that way you could conclude record cold and record snow are happening at the same time are because of ‘global warming’………oh wait, they are doing that.
If there was a warm spot in December it was the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland.
http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/prods/WIS54DPTCT/20101213180000_WIS54DPTCT_0005390962.gif
I am not invoking this in an attempt to bolster the AGW party line, I consider myself a skeptic. Just trying to be fair to both sides, something AGW proponents rarely do.
Yes, it was warmer there than usual. Quite cold for most people. And consistent with the anti-alarmist theory of “it’s cold some places and warm others”. We’ve almost modeled it……..