Why is so cold everywhere in the world! Are we experiencing a small Ice Age?

reply to post by frugal

My guess is the BP oil spill slowed down the Atlantic belt underwater currents. No warm waters for Europe.

Among many other reasons,like polar ice cap is melting.

reply to post by RumET

A very Frozen and water-less Russian Citizen, who can barely hit the keys of his keyboard due to cold

It's sad to be so cold where you live,I really hope the weather will improve soon,and all this winter and low temperatures will go,but then the winter could move to other places.

reply to post by diamondsmith

Among many other reasons,like polar ice cap is melting.

.,,,,,,,During what you call an "ice age"????

See the disconnect?

reply to post by RumET


Thank you for the heads up! No im located in Østafjells, Buskerud. In the heart of Norway! Just need to spread a little propoganda in my area there is pretty cold in the winter time. As I said: down to almost -25c. Sorry for the misunderstadings this may have lead to. And yes in some counties there are eternal ice(cream) and people playing Hardingfele in the streets. Mostly in the summertime. Med hjertelig hilsen buskerud fylkeskommune

exceptionally warm weather in Seattle right now....Totally clear skies and like 60 F, very unusual for early february....

Here, In my country, there was a snowfall, so massive, that we've never seen in around in 25 years, I had to carve out the way for the people to move. Which is very very unusual here.

reply to post by chrismir


He is not saying an ice age he is talking a mini ice age. Something like what happened a few hundred years ago. When we last had a mini ice age. We have just had three exceptionally cold winters in a row and some scientists have predicted we may enter a mini ice age. Something to do with the period of inactivity of the sun which has been recorded over the last decade or so.

The question is worth exploring and I dont have the answer...


Try reading the OP....

reply to post by frugal

My guess is the BP oil spill slowed down the Atlantic belt underwater currents. No warm waters for Europe. People have forgotton there would be consequences to polluting the water with oil and chemical disperants.

Its not the oil that has caused the currents to shift. It is the fresh water that is melting on off the glaciers. In greenland the current is slowing down the fuels the golf stream which keeps the likes of the UK warm.

A relatively small amount of oil is not going to have an affect on the thermohalined currents..

I'll live in NE USA, Massachusetts, and it's been extremely warm compared to normal, but last year we had numerous blizzards and a record year of snow. Very different than last year, but on the warmer scale, although worries me for this summer as being in the south east of MA, we didn't get hit bad from the hurricane that came up here last year. My worry here is that since this winter didn't get as cold, it may have made the waters stay warmer, meaning, hurricanes could possibly be stronger this coming hurricane season. As much as I live for destructive weather, it worries me at the same time.

When it's in the 60's in the Midwest in January, it's kind of hard to relate. I saw this video and get your point. Hope things warm up if you in suffering.

reply to post by purplemer

Something to do with the period of inactivity of the sun which has been recorded over the last decade or so

That is the point the low activity of the sun combined with sun magnetic pole reversal,

TextSolar activity remains at very low levels. Sunspots 1410 and 1413 remain stable as they rotate towards the northwest limb. A small new sunspot formed at mid latitude and was numbered 1414. This regions already looks to be fading away.

source(solarham.com...

Why is so warm? Could be this,

TextCarbon dioxide that is not absorbed by rainforest is absorbed by the oceans instead, acidifying the oceans and dissolving calcium carbonate from shells and coral and releasing trapped carbon dioxide into a vicious increasing cycle in the sea water. In addition, the increasing acidity is lowering the oceans ability to capture oxygen and creating oceanic dead zones. The extra greenhouse gasses heat the ocean as well as the atmosphere. This places the ocean species that are temperature and chemistry sensitive at risk and the potential for the collapse of the other part of the Earth's lungs, the photo plankton. Massive die off of coral has already been noted. Though heating of the oceans contribute to evaporation and cloud formation, it does nothing to lock away carbon either as calcium carbonate or in plant material. It does escalate the scenario for super storms that brew over heated oceans and make landfall as intense hurricanes as the weather seeks to balance extremes of heat and cold.

source(syzygyastro.hubpages.com...

reply to post by sad_eyed_lady
Thank you for that video,I am sorry for poor people, I hope the very low temperatures will go away ,and they will not suffer that much.

Strange weather last night - very cold rain and it was freezing within minutes, icicles on every car and house. Never experienced a 'wet-freeze' before.

Usually when I see things freezing in our climes it's always dry and still, but last night it was raining and sticking into ice on every surface.

Odd.

You should see the weather over here in the UK -10 temperatures for around the past week and heavy snow last night. Where i live down East we had 10cm in snow. Mini Ice Age? Maybe Maybe not.

reply to post by mr-lizard

Strange weather last night - very cold rain and it was freezing within minutes, icicles on every car and house. Never experienced a 'wet-freeze' before.

This is happening very often in Canada and in other parts of the world with very big economic losses.

reply to post by Narcissous
Not only there,

TextThe cold snap has spread across the Mediterranean and into North Africa with heavy snowfall in Algeria. Officials say at least 16 people have died and at least 122 have been injured. The Algerian capital, Algiers, saw snow of at least 10cm deep, the first in eight years.

source(www.euronews.net...

reply to post by avvie
It's all over Europe..or what is left of it,

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We had about 3 inches of snow last night between 6 pm and midnight,so about normal for the time of year.Shovelled it away from outside my house and garage today and it was warm enough to melt the bits I'd missed even leaving some dry bits,so not quite freezing,no mini ice age and still above average for the time of year.

reply to post by diamondsmith

It's all over Europe..or what is left of it,

Drama student?