Brrr… Analysts Predict Freezing Winters in Europe Will Be the Norm For 20-40 Years

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The record cold temperatures in Europe this year were not a fluke.
Analysts believe that Europe will see freezing winters for the next 20 to 40 years.
The Global Warming Policy Foundation reported:

Olivier Lejeune, Platts, GWPF

Colder winters could become the norm in Europe over the next 20 to 40 years, US-based forecaster Weather Services International said Tuesday.

“We have recently noticed a change in [weather] patterns back to what we had in the 1950s and 1960s in Europe… We’ve had three cold winters in a row in the UK,” WSI�s chief meteorologist Todd Crawford told Platts.

“We believe there is a strong likelihood that it’s going to hang around for the next 20 to 30 years.”

If true, the findings could have important implications for the European energy markets, where demand typically increases during winter because of higher heating and lighting requirements.

Peak electricity demand hit an all-time record in France at the beginning of December, and was near its historic record in the UK, amid temperatures that were more than 10 degrees Celsius below the seasonal norm.

Natural gas and gasoil demand also soared. Behind the freezing temperatures is the North Atlantic Oscillation, a climatic phenomenon that normally sends wind from western European countries to the east, keeping cold air from the Arctic at bay. But in December the current was flowing in the opposite direction, bringing cold Arctic air to western European regions and sending energy demand to fresh highs.

#1 January 21, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Larkin commented:

Yup. Definitely the result of globull warming.

algore should have his testicles flash frozen.
#2 January 21, 2011 at 11:16 pm
Jim commented:

So we’re back to the global cooling theory, are we?
#3 January 21, 2011 at 11:18 pm
Rock commented:

Did Dr. Mann and his hockey puck approve this report.
#5 January 21, 2011 at 11:34 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

see how well the green programs are reducing global warming. thank you president obama. we never had any temperature reduction when bush was president.
#6 January 21, 2011 at 11:34 pm
NeoKong commented:

Good. Let them freeze their asses off until they get the hint.
#7 January 21, 2011 at 11:36 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

mann is a hockey puck.
#8 January 21, 2011 at 11:48 pm
tim commented:

thank you for providing more information regarding climate change. here’s a link that can provide more knowledge about the effects on the European climate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohaline_circulation
#9 January 21, 2011 at 11:49 pm
Andrew X commented:

Don’t worry, Euro-socialism, multi-culturalism, and anti-capitalism/Americanism will save them. They all be juuuussssss fine!
#10 January 21, 2011 at 11:59 pm
befuddled commented:

if there isn’t a way to blame Palin for the upcoming ice age, than i am not interested…

it will be fun to watch the euro weenies squirm about having to import more fossil fuels and, gasp, consider using nuclear energy. right now, they are probably sucking up to every oil tyrant in the world hoping to reach some sort of trade agreement.

with the collapse of the great global warming swindle and ,along with it, the green jobs scam, i fear what they are concocting next.
#11 January 22, 2011 at 12:16 am
Wm T Sherman commented:

Global cooling is evidence of global warming. Increased precipitation is evidence of drought. Chocolate rations have been increased to 20 grams from 30 grams.
#12 January 22, 2011 at 12:23 am
The Elector of Saxony commented:

At least France has been building nuclear plants. Funny that the Left opposes the ONLY alternative energy source that has avzero carbon footprint and actually produces usable amounts of energy. Are they dumb, or crazy? I can’t decide.

Any student of history knows that climate changes. Europe has a written history long enough to have recorded dozens of cycles during which arable land areas moved farther North, and then receded when the climate turned colder. All of this before carbon even existed, children! That’s right! Until there were cars, and evil light bulbs with filaments, and appliances, and trains, and hospitals, and WalMart, we lived in a pristine world completely free of carbon. And it was wondrous, and the children danced for joy. Wait, a minute…that’s wrong. Oh, yeah, carbon is required for life, so that can’t be right.

The global warming nonsense can be disproved easily by the facts that climate changed long before I bought my Range Rover. There are just three strategies for the future that WON’T result in the suffering and death of the West: (1) Exploit the fossil fuels which we have in abundance offshore, in Alaska, everywhere we have undisputed territorial rights to them. (2) gain a strong military foothold in the middle east, exert our influence to obtain and preserve an uninterrupted flow of THEIR fossil fuels at prices that we strongly suggest remain reasonable. and (3) build nuclear power plants, further develop nuclear battery technology (which might change the world overnight one day soon) until we don’t need fossil fuels for anything but cars.

I understand people might be repulsed by (2), but since the only other option is an energy crisis that will make most Americans wish for death as a relief from the plague and starvation they will face, I think we might want to consider it. Who thinks the Chinese will just “make do” with less energy?
#13 January 22, 2011 at 12:24 am
Larry Sheldon commented:

The good news is we enter the period with fewer power plants and sources of energy than we did the last time (that is an uneducated guess on my part, I would really like to be wrong) and a lot more people and a lot more per-person demands on energy.

Good going green–way to decimate the population.
#14 January 22, 2011 at 12:31 am
Jet Jaguar commented:

If this damnable global warning doesn’t stop soon, we’re all going to freeze to death.
#15 January 22, 2011 at 12:31 am
Paul Ben commented:

Now watch and see the crisis-makers…

“We have to warn the sheep about global freezing since global warming didn’t work quite well as planned but at least we made some millions out of it.”

“Now, switching gear folks, who gonna make the new documentary?”

“Let’s get some celebrity, Al Gore is a little used-up.”

“How about Michael Moore?”

“Nah, he’s too fat…We need a skinny dude or dudette… it’s global freezing and he’s too comfy and warm in his fat.”

“Ok, I got it! How about Obama?”

“Great!! And that way we kill two birds with one stone: Scare the sheep, Regulate their asses and make our millions!! LOL”

“DEAL!! I’ll call the White House!!”
#16 January 22, 2011 at 12:40 am
planeboy commented:

befud, To funny, but don’t forget she’s been dealing with “COLD” for a while now. The euro-greenies are pissing their pants as the wheels fall off this BS being shoved down everybodys throats,but we all know it’s not Palins doing ITS BUSH!
#17 January 22, 2011 at 12:43 am
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:

Analysts believe that Europe will see freezing winters for the next 20 to 40 years.

It’s interesting that some outfit called the “Global Warming Policy Foundation” would actually put a piece like this up on their own website.

Can’t tell whether they’re trying to be fair and honest or if they’re just plain dense.
#18 January 22, 2011 at 1:34 am
raybojabo commented:

Scientists saw this coming 30 years ago, but were silenced because it didn’t fit the NWO global warming agenda. Now millions will die because we failed to prepare for the coming ice age.

http://www.earthsgeomotor.com/
#19 January 22, 2011 at 2:03 am
donabernathy commented:

this global warm’n is make’n me thirsty

roflmao
#20 January 22, 2011 at 3:38 am
jorgen commented:

#12

I fully agree with The Elector of Saxony. I have been saying the same for years.
#21 January 22, 2011 at 6:50 am
Pawn commented:

Not only will the demand for energy increase but there will be a significant impact to food production. Energy demand up/food supply down. Things are going to strain the global economy even harder.
#22 January 22, 2011 at 7:06 am
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:

How inconvenient.
#23 January 22, 2011 at 7:28 am
avery commented:

You know if you borrow money from a bank you put up propery to cover the loan.Why has the Obama admin. put all our Natural resoures Energy off limits to america.Is it being heald for secuilty by the Chinines.
#24 January 22, 2011 at 7:35 am
Betsy Ross commented:

Oh, for the love of Pete! Does anyone take these people seriously anymore?
pfffft….
#25 January 22, 2011 at 8:46 am
nadadhimmi commented:

Lots of entertaining comments here. However, if the temp really does drop a few degrees, it will lead to severe fuel shortages and, most dangerously, an increase in sickness with probable influenza pandemics and mutated strains. Global warming has, in reality, mostly pleasant effects. Cooling leads to a nightmare of food, fuel and medicine shortage, with attendant riots and breakdown in civilization.
#26 January 22, 2011 at 8:50 am
Andreas K. commented:

Nuclear power is back in the talks over here. It even prompted left-over anti-nuclear-power screamers from the 80s to crawl out of their holes here in Austria. I see them every Wednesday with their “No nuclear power!” stuff (that looks totally left over from the 80s) at the subway station near university.

Historically, cooling periods are bad for mankind. The high cultures have bloomed when? In warming times.
#27 January 22, 2011 at 8:55 am
Gored commented:

…thousands years ago, there were no cars, no power plants, no factories and the glaciers still had melted. Global warming is all cyclical, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out, it’s just Al Gore wanting to stay relevant.
#28 January 22, 2011 at 9:03 am
Lindsay commented:

Even though there will be more ice and snow and it will seem much colder, the “official” temps reported by NASA and NOAA will continue to soar indicating that we need to raise taxes and ride our bikes to work. We MUST trust our government.
#29 January 22, 2011 at 9:12 am
Mitch Rapp commented:

Where is AL GORE? Where is his Nobel? Where is his Academy Award for phoney science?

Even Obama is a global warmist – Maybe Congress can offer a Phoney Science Award!
#30 January 22, 2011 at 9:16 am
BurmaShave commented:

The first question that comes to mind, after the last couple decades of Global Warming fraud and nonsense, is: “Analysts”? Who dat?

It sure is a huge shame that Liberals have corrupted science, like everything else they touch. It used to be that science was, by definition, objective and subject strictly to facts, and that means all the facts, not just the cherry-picked facts that suit a political agenda or facilitates money grubbing for research grants. That is not the case anymore. Now science has become so corrupted by political motives, that when one see headlines like this, one first wonders what is motivating the “research” behind it and assume the “scientific” conclusions are suspect.

No University can refute this because they are all citadels of Liberalism and ideological through and through.
#31 January 22, 2011 at 9:19 am
bg commented:

++

there’s mone$ mone$ mone$ mone$ to be made on Globall Warning!!

==
#32 January 22, 2011 at 9:27 am
Marmo commented:

#8 Tim
From your article:
“However, the North Atlantic is currently warmer than in the earlier measurements. This suggests that either the circulation is not weakening, or that, even if it is weakening, the weakening is not having the hypothesised cooling effect, or that other factors are able to overwhelm any cooling.”

Thanks for helping prove that global warming is BS.

The science is unsettled!
#33 January 22, 2011 at 9:35 am
Marmo commented:

#25 nadadhimmi

I agree with you. Global cooling is much worse for the human population than global warming. Any reasoning person should understand this.

And think of it, what do the global warming alarmists want? Global cooling. Resulting in less arable farmland for growing food, resulting in mass starvation and die-offs. What cheery people these global warming people are!
#34 January 22, 2011 at 9:38 am
DigitalTroglodyte commented:

Marmo, warmists are basically misanthopes.
#35 January 22, 2011 at 10:20 am
Arch commented:

I’m always impressed by professor Joseph LaGuardi of Boston University, an expert on Global Warming Policy. This video expresses a much more common sense approach to climate change than that pursued by the Waxman Committee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHvXC5eegA8&feature=related

I’m sure you will all agree with his approach.
#36 January 22, 2011 at 10:21 am
Dave-O commented:

these so-called “analysyts” have lost whatever shred of credibility they might have once had. They can’t even predict the weather next week around these parts – how can they possibly predict the weather over the next twenty years? (short answer: they can’t) They are completely full of unadulterated bull$hit and are struggling mightily to remain relevant in a day and age where no one now believes their shrill cries of “the sky is falling” – “the sky is falling” – “the sky is falling” – I think they are afraid of losing their taxpayer-funded “research” grants – and if I were Speaker Boehner – these types of grants are the very first I would tee up for elimination once and for all. Enough is enough.
#37 January 22, 2011 at 10:22 am
kato commented:

I’m sure the scientists who made this prediction hedged it with numerous qualifications. The media, however, will run with it as if the prediction is a certainty.

Funny how predictions supposed to foretell events decades into the future are not much more than projections of the current week’s weather once the idiots of the media get hold of them.
#38 January 22, 2011 at 11:38 am
LibertyAtStake commented:

Quick – somebody invent a machine to pump out GHG emissions so we can avert the coming disaster!

http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
“Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive”
#39 January 22, 2011 at 1:33 pm
Nick Shaw commented:

I agree with someone above that questioned the wisdom of a group called “The Global Warming Policy Foundation” issuing a report such as this. Kinda’ calls into question the existence of their well…existence, I guess. However, though their pontifications on the effects it will have on energy use, particularly fossil fuels, may have some merit (I don’t know if their concern is because there will be more of the dreaded carbon emissions, which don’t seem to be helping keep the temperature higher or because fossil fuels will run out faster due to a 30 year cold snap, like that’s going to happen, duhh) the more important question is the cold’s effect on agricultural production in Europe. This is not even mentioned! Anyone with a whit of interest in the subject knows that Europe was subjected to the Little Ice Age just a few short centuries ago and it’s effect on the populace ranging from the basic cold temperatures to the excessive ground moisture from more snow melt during the spring plant. Why are these things not taken into account when much had been written about the subject? This is actual science with eyewitness accounts! Instead, the warmers issue new dire warnings about what will happen in 2300. My God, one would think their heads are buried somewhere other than the sand!