paulsol the Flatulent wrote:
All that snow! And rain....
Must be 'global warming' then?!
'Cos its real you know...Global warming. proved beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Yup!
Actually this is more proof of it than anything. It's the average world temperature over the year that matters. When it gets really cold it doesn't snow as much. Lakes are warmer than the air because they were holding a lot more heat than usual (hot summer), you get more evaporation, which means more humidity, more precipitation (more snow). Of course it can be argued the other way as well.
Then you can get into air currents etc. and how higher global temperatures make certain areas colder and certain ones hotter. It goes on and on.
The part I'm concerned about is the poles, more ice melting every year, means less light reflected back into space (snow is white, it reflects light, water absorbs it. Like a white car compared to a black car in the summer), slowly heating the planet more each year. Till there's no more ice and half the continent is under water. */em cue doomsday music*