No More Winters In Europe After 2080?

[The Captain]

This article caught my eye:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...e_warming_dc_2

Can anyone verify this, or speculate?

Take care all.

[gokufusionss1]

thats wierd since we've had one cold summer here in england.

[nik0tine]

That's just scary. And whats worse is that nobody gives a damn. Just so long as they can have their plasma TV's.

[Psychotic]

WOO-HOO! DEATH TO EUROPE! No wait, I live in Europe...

But seriously though, I have noticed the temperatures being a lot higher, and there have been really bad floods here in England as of late. I suppose this is because Europe was the first really industrialised area of the world, and is now paying the price.

Still, there's all too many global warming scare-stories around, so now I tend not to take notice of them.

[Shadow Nexus]

I don't care, I will be dead. Too bad for my children.


:rolleyes2


NOTETHESARCASMSARCASMSARCAAAAASM

[Endless]

In Paris last year, from the 1st to the 10th of August, we averaged about 35-40°C (and it stayed that warm at night). Same period this year, 20-28°C (and it's cooler at night). This summer is actually cool. Even the summers before seemed way warmer.

[gokufusionss1]

i should point out that this is probably based on a computer model of the weather system and those things are notoriously faliable. besides i don't really care since by 2080 we will have invented warp drive and can leave this dust ball.

[UltimateSpamGrover]

2080 is 76 years from now, 96% of these posters will be dead, but I'll still be alive....

[Nemesis the Warlock]

It's been turning very tropical here in Holland over the last two years. We normally didn't get such humid heat for such a long time. Scratches are turning into nasty infections that last for weeks (I had one of those recently, and a few friends said it happened to them, too.)

Yesterday, an angler pulled a piranha out of the Groningen city canal. He took a picture of it and put it back.

Yay for Dubya and his refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty!

[Burtsplurt]

Yep, it's getting very tropical over here in England. It's oppressive during the day, and then thunder storms often follow at night. The weather is just wholly unpredictable.

I wouldn't be too surprised if there are no more cold winters. These aren't just scare stories - models are based on real data, which is then extrapolated. This is probably a worse-case scenario, but I think it's a matter of 'when', not 'if'.

It worries me.

[edczxcvbnm]

The midwest is already prone to global warming? We have an average of 19 days over 90 degrees here in chicago during the summer. This year we have had only 2. Just 2! The global warming sure is affecting us! How will we ever survive this insane amount of heat?

[Casey]

And people are like! Global warming because of the farting cows in india. When its the cars we drive that help it. Say, over billions of billions of cars on the street, contribute to it big time. Maybe once we get the Hydrogene car running that will slow it down a bit.... Here in Washington we havnt been getting much rain then we used to. Maybe because of, no more El Nino? Or must be Global Warming. We sure have been getting hot weather like usual, during the summer.

[Doomgaze]

Up here in Wisconsin we only had one day over 90

Lest you forget, this cool summer was not because of an ice age or global warming or anything. It's....


El Niño!


EDIT: To clarify, we're at the beginning of an El Niño, according to the NOAA.

[War Angel]

I don't care, I will be dead. Too bad for my children.

They'll be far too mutated to care, either.

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

For those of you who don't hablo espanol, El Niño is spanish for...

..The Niño.