• Question: Does snow and cold disprove climate change

    Asked by 456tema34 to Joe, Jos, Kate, Lisa, Pierre on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      No it doesn’t. Climate is a planet wide phenomenon, and climate change and global warming are also global things. It is quite possible to have the average temperature increasing but see the local temperature in any one place decrease. From what I understand climate change is likely to mean we have more extreme weather events, so windier storms, wetter winters, hotter and drier summers (or extremely wet ones) etc….

    • Photo: Joe Reed

      Joe Reed answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Not at all. This is a myth that people who deny climate change exists love to use.
      There is a difference between climate (long term) and weather (short term).
      We can have cold times, but on average the global temperature is increasing.
      The amount of evidence that says climate change is real and because of human activity is huge, but unfortunately a lot of people have become very rich from fossil fuels and so they don’t want people to stop using them, so they deny it- loudly.

    • Photo: Lisa Simmons

      Lisa Simmons answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      No, as the others have said climate change is a global event. Local weather systems are changing because of this. In england, the weather is generally governed by the gulf stream (which is why it is a bit warmer here than other places at the same latitude), so if that changes due to climate change then our local weather will

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