BBC News - Ultraviolet light shone on cold winter conundrum

The Sun has recently been in a quiet phase of its regular 11-year cycle, which co-incided with three years in which the UK, along with other places in northern Europe and parts of the US, experienced cold conditions unusual in the recent record.

But unusually warm weather was felt both further south, around the Mediterranean Sea, and further north in Canada and Greenland.

"The key point is that this effect is a change in the circulation, moving air from one place to another, which is why some places get cold and others get warm," said Adam Scaife, one of the researchers on the paper, who heads the UK Met Office's Seasonal to Decadal Prediction team.

Public Comment Open On The United State Global Change Research Program Strategic Plan 2012-2021 | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

The United State Global Change Research Program Strategic Plan 2012-2021 has invited public comments on their Plan
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The Plan starts with an assumption that they already know the direction of climate change in the coming decades. It does not read as a balanced scinece plan. I encourage readers of my weblog to submit comments.

Disappearing Snow Cover At Ski Resorts | Real Science

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