[Gunnair]

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ATLANTA, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Melting and shrinking of arctic sea ice means colder, snowier winters to Britain and other parts of Europe, along with North America and China, a study shows.

U.S. and Chinese researchers say the area of Arctic Ocean covered by ice in summer and autumn has been decreasing with global warming and is having an effect on the atmospheric jet stream. That phenomenon is producing cold, snowy weather.

Whether winters will get even colder with ongoing melting is unclear, the researchers write in Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.

A team headed by Jiping Liu from Georgia Tech and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Beijing observed and conducted computer modeling of the meteorological processes involved.

"For the past four winters, for much of the northern United States, east Asia and Europe, we had this persistent above-normal snow cover," Liu told BBC News.

"We don't see a predictive relationship with any of the other factors that have been proposed, such as El Nino," he said, "but for sea ice, we do see a predictive relationship."

With less sea ice cover, the Arctic Ocean releases more heat into the atmosphere, reducing the strength of the northern jet stream, which usually brings milder weather to Europe from the west, researchers said. That creates a "blocking" condition that sends colder air over Britain, Europe and the other affected regions.


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[ShepherdsDog]

Art Bell and Whitley Strieber made these predictions in their book, The Coming Global Superstorm, years ago. The 'experts', at the time, all laughed at them and called it pseudo science and scare tactics.

[Hyack]

It's not only the atmospheric jet stream we have to worry about, with all the fresh water entering the North Atlantic there is going to be problems with the Gulf Stream losing energy or being diverted which will also effect the European weather.

[BartSimpson]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Art Bell and Whitley Strieber made these predictions in their book, The Coming Global Superstorm, years ago. The 'experts', at the time, all laughed at them and called it pseudo science and scare tactics.

Art Bell also is a champion of the paranoiac 'Chem Trails' theory and Whitley Streiber is notorious for having once said he was abducted by aliens or Jehovah's Witnesses...something like that.

In any case, once you drop a 'nade on your credibility (Paging Eureka! Eureka to the white courtesy telephone, please!)it's not unusual for the rest of your extreme assertions to be indifferently dismissmed.

[BartSimpson]

Hyack Hyack:

It's not only the atmospheric jet stream we have to worry about, with all the fresh water entering the North Atlantic there is going to be problems with the Gulf Stream losing energy or being diverted which will also effect the European weather.

We're doomed.

In other news, did you see what Gwyneth Paltrow wore to the Oscars?