Cold winter in Europe and the USA in the warmest year in history

Climatologist David Easterling says that "the assumptions that warming has stopped since 2005 are not reliable" since 2010 is the 34th year in a row in which the temperature rises to levels above the average"

The American Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency, NOAA, published data for 2010 from which it turns out that (along with 2005) "it was the hottest year since measurements began", a temperature that was 0.8 degrees above the 20th century average.

The warming contributed to heat waves in Russia, Central Asia and Africa, as well as temperatures 2 degrees above average in the Arctic.

Climatologist David Easterling says that "the assumptions that warming has stopped since 2005 are not reliable" since 2010 is the 34th year in a row in which the temperature rises to levels above the average" 2010 was also the rainiest year (on the global average, not in Israel). More heat = more evaporation = more rain.

The Japanese Climate Agency JMA reported that since temperature records began in 1880, 2010 was the hottest. The Japanese as well as the Americans report an increased mass of ice in the Arctic Circle.

After reading reports that there is no doubt about their reliability... you see the pictures from Europe, China and the eastern US... pictures of snow and ice, how does that work out? An extremely cold winter is passing over Europe (and North/East America), and we keep saying and claiming that the world is warming, so what's going on? ("Quickly")

The westerly winds that normally blow and bring heat from the currents of the Atlantic Ocean, are pushed south by cold air currents (jet stream) that deviated south due to the hot summer, therefore cold arctic winds blow over most of the continent, another reason lies in the "ocean conveyor belt"... and the Gulf Stream .

For a long time, scientists have "suspected" that cold intervening periods that lasted a long time were caused by changes in the circulation of the warm currents in the Atlantic Ocean. Now published in: "Science" a study led by Dr. David Thornalley from the Department of Oceans and Earth at Cardiff University Dr. David Thornalley Cardiff University / School of Earth and Ocean Sciences in collaboration with researchers from Great Britain and the USA. The researchers claim that changes in the flow cycles in the Atlantic Ocean have caused far more extreme ("dramatic") changes than has been accepted until now.

The researchers examined the formations of the ocean floor (northeast Atlantic), which showed that the cycle of flows stops and resumes again and again, causing the (local) climate to warm and cool ... sometimes for hundreds of years.

The findings show (what was known) that the last "ice age" ended about 15.000 years ago. The changes were identified by examining sediments (from the ocean floor), shells that emerged from the sediments were examined to locate the distribution and concentration of radiocarbon in the ocean water. Radiocarbon is an isotope of carbon that is used as a stopwatch, by checking the concentration of the isotope it is possible to calculate how much time has passed since the water (in which the oysters lived) was in the upper layers, which allows timing of periods when there was subsidence of water. The researchers discovered that every time the sinking stopped, the North Atlantic was "flooded" with water coming from Antarctica (?) water that flowed (quickly) from south to north. The findings show that the flow cycle in the Atlantic Ocean is subject to extreme changes that occur in a short time, up to decades.

The currents of water in the oceans regulate the global climate, currents that create the "great oceanic conveyor belt". One of the ways to regulate is by heat transfer through water currents. The main cause of the "conveyor belt" is (cold) water that sinks in the northeast of the Atlantic Ocean, the cold water that sinks is replaced by warm water from the equatorial region that "pulls" north, Europe is kept (relatively) warm with the help of this circulation.

Therefore, a change in the frequency, amount and periods in which water subsidence takes place in the north can cause fluctuations (in temperature) of up to 10 degrees! According to the researchers, the findings show "how sensitive and variable the currents in the oceans can be,"

"Today the currents in the oceans are much more stable, so the chances of extreme changes today are smaller than they were at the end of the last ice age" but in light of the extreme impact that humans have on the climate "it is important to understand systems, their development and their response in the event of an "artificial" push"!

Although the researchers do not refer (explicitly) to global warming, the hint in "pushing" is clear and obvious. As has already been written and published in the past, the warming causes the melting of glaciers in the north, the mass that diverts (even stops) the Gulf Stream, the Gulf Stream keeps Europe "warm". A diverted Gulf Stream will keep Europe frozen.