| Is Britain's recent big freeze the start of a potential | | | | mode" where data has been reported to show that |
| trend worldwide towards colder weather which can | | | | summer sea ice in the Arctic has increased by at |
| seriously challenge global warming theory, the world | | | | least a quarter since 2007, some scientists have |
| may have entered a cold phase that could produce a | | | | predicted a cooling trend in 2008 and indicated a |
| dip in temperature that may last for 20 to 30 years. | | | | warning of it again in September 2009 in Geneva. |
| If this is the case then summers and winters could | | | | Some scientists have expressed the opinion that the |
| be cooler than what has been recently experienced, | | | | warming trend we have experienced in recent years |
| which could mean the global warming being stopped | | | | may have gone into reverse resulting in the winters |
| and or reversed in it's tracks, some scientists claim | | | | like the one we have at this present time, it has |
| this is based on predictions after analyzing natural | | | | been mentioned in some areas that a cycle of 20 to |
| cycles of temperate in the waters of the Pacific and | | | | 30 years of cooling to warming years then returning |
| Atlantic oceans. | | | | to cooling occurs. If this is the case may we see a |
| Some believe that these natural cycles and not the | | | | halt to retreating sea ice and glaciers? |
| human races interaction with the environment can | | | | Meteorologists have blamed the recent big freeze |
| explain the major changes in worldwide temperatures | | | | that Europe and the UK experienced on a "Arctic |
| during the last century, if this is true it will call into | | | | oscillation?" which is a weather pattern in which areas |
| question the political measures to stop this alleged | | | | of high pressure have pushed the jet stream away |
| global warming and bring into question the validity of | | | | from Britain, some have said this is just a temporary |
| the research that highlighted it in the first place. | | | | change and will not have any long term impact on |
| The U.S National Snow & ice data centre based in | | | | the warming patterns. |
| Colorado says Earth's warming from 1900 is down to | | | | But there is also the flip side argument that says |
| natural oceanic cycles and not by man made | | | | they amount to very large rearrangements in the |
| greenhouse gases, it occurred because earth is in an | | | | dominant weather patterns and their shifts explain all |
| "warm mode" which would have happened had | | | | of the major changes in planetary temperatures |
| mankind's alleged rising carbon dioxide production | | | | during the 20th &21st centuries. Do we have that |
| existed or not. | | | | change upon us now? |
| Oceanic cycles now may have switched into a "cold | | | | |