Friday 19 January 2024

Global Heating Doesn't Mean Everywhere Gets Much Hotter All the Time

Here, outside Swansea (Wales), we've had several days of icy conditions. Some folk have predictably started to ask "Where's that global warming, 'experts' are always going on about?". These recent cold conditions, are due to a flow of Arctic air to the South. Anthropogenic global heating, caused by our increased 'greenhouse gas' release, produces climate change, not uniform temperature increase. Typical air and ocean current flows become disrupted. Climate becomes much less predictable. A short local cold spell, doesn't mean that global heating is going away!

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