Does Unexpected Cold Weather Mean There is no Global Warming?
Places around the world have been hit with a lot of unexpected
cold weather this year, including parts of China, the UK, and
the southern US. Certainly, all of this cold weather must mean
that there is no Global Warming. All those predictions have to
be wrong, right? Well, no, not exactly. The fact that there are
cold temperatures in places that don’t get them very often does
not indicate that global warming is at an end or a hoax; quite
the contrary, actually. Climate change actually does have the
potential to cause more crazy weather patterns, from heat waves
to floods and even severely cold weather. The planet is still,
indeed, warming up—but it doesn’t eliminate the chance or fact
that cold is still a natural thing and will happen. Senior
scientist, Gerald Meehl, of the National Center for Atmospheric
Research said that the cold weather is “part of natural
variability”. He also adds that “we’ll still have record cold
temperatures; we’ll just ha