Monday, December 27, 2010

How Global Warming Shifts Temperature Patterns

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26cohen.html?src=me&ref=homepage

I was talking with my cousin about our blizzard and he asked whether this meant that global warming is not happening. I told him that this has been the warmest decade in history because of global warming. This article explains how the Himalayas and the Siberian snow fields are shifting the prevailing winds and contributing to colder winters in previously warmer areas even as the global temperature continues to rise.

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