Effects of Global Warming on Winter Weather

We should also consider that the effects of global warming reaches beyond the place where we are now, in order to fathom that change in climate and temperature is happening globally. As the climate-researchers have foreseen in 2007, the tropical and sub-tropical regions have indeed, experienced altered climates.

Consider this incident in January 06, 2008 when Iran was hit by the heaviest snowfall they have ever experienced. Several people died because of the extreme cold. There were those who found themselves trapped in their cars and the homeless had no choice but to bear the cold in the streets. What’s more startling is that some desert areas even received snowfall for the first time in history.

In other parts of the globe, Buenos Aires was unprepared for snow since the last recorded snowfall in this country was 89 years ago. Nearby, the people of Peru suffered from an intense cold spell where hundreds of people died; prompting the government to declare 14 of their provinces under a “state of emergency.” Its neighbor Chile, through its agriculture minister, sadly reported losses of at least $200 million in destroyed crops and livestock brought by the toughest winter this country ever experienced in the past 50 years.

In 2008, extreme winter storms in the US and Canada caused damage to properties by freezing the power lines, trees and causing accidents due to strong winds and heavy snowfall. In Colorado, there was an incident where a bus running on 20% biodiesel was stranded on Interstate 70 in the mountains. The biodiesel solidified due to extreme cold despite the fact that the bus engine was running.

What climate researches say is that comparisons should not be based on the recent winter temperatures but should include those winters that began after global warming. The cold weather experienced recently is basically and characteristically the kind of winter we experienced before carbon dioxide saturated the Earth’s atmosphere. Studies about ice cores showed that global climate cycle included climate changes from global warming to global cooling until the Earth reaches Full Glacial World or Ice Age. .

Climate scientists explain that a present cyclical change in the Pacific Ocean known as La Nina is bringing about these cold icy spells and wind chills. The cold ocean surface near the equator is causing the cold winter in the US and other parts of the globe. After this cycle, expect the warming effects of its opposite, El Nino.

Researchers have voiced out that it is quite distressing not to know what will happen. The climate issue is all very complex and not just one sided. All they know is that we are in for several ecological surprises. There is much concern for those who do not have the means to adjust, with whatever changes and effects of global warming on the weather, will bring.