Britain sees heaviest snow falls for over a hundred years

In the British Isles the first week in April saw some of the coldest conditions for this time of year in over two decades. Some areas also saw their heaviest snow falls in over a century.

But wait a minute? Isn't this supposed to be the era of Global Warming? Well so much for that, because as this latest episode shows quite plainly the weather most definitely has not forgotten how to do cold. Furthermore as this site has continued to insist for a very long time, none of this would be possible if indeed we were really experiencing the true Greenhouse Effect. Remember the Greenhouse Effect? That was the great buzz phrase around a decade ago, until the evidence showed it just wasn't happening. So then there was Global Warming, and now as the evidence for this is becoming ever more slender we have the next alternative buzz phrase 'Climate Change.' Yet as we have stated innumerable times on this site Climate Change is just a statement of the obvious since the Earth's climate has always been changing and establishing just what is a normal climate for the planet is as close to impossible as impossible gets.

Yes the Earth's climate is changing. But it has always changed and will carry on doing so long after the Human Race has faded into oblivion, just like it saw dramatic changes long before the Human Race ever arrived on the planet.

Oh, and by the way the reason, for this cold snap in Britain was simply the result of cold northern air blowing down from the Arctic. No great mystery, just a question of wind direction. This is important to state, because when in the course of the Summer hotter conditions eventually prevail, these will not have been because of shifting clouds of carbon dioxide, but simply because the winds will have changed to a more southerly direction.