Common misconception climate change means warmer winters in Britain, it could mean

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by Green is Clean.

Common misconception climate change means warmer winters in Britain, it could mean colder winters.

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Many climate scientists think that Britain, and other parts of western Europe, will actually get colder as a result of climate change.

We are the same latitude as Labrador, in Canada, and we benefit from the warming effects of the Gulf Stream.

At the end of the last Ice Age, when the ice sheet covering North America melted, more fresh water reduced the salinity of the north Atlantic surface water and therefore less ‘dense water’ sank and moved towards the equator. This reduced, or even shut-down, the Gulf Stream. Temperatures in north-west Europe fell by 5C in just a few decades.

That’s not what’s happening the next few days, but it’s a mistake to think that climate change means warmer winters.

From the Green Party Press Office