Sunday 17 November 2013

Frozen Britain

It is easy to use the phrases 'climate change' and 'global warming' interchangably and frequently you will hear me do this in lessons. In fact they are different and the exam board goes so far as to use the former phrase, 'climate change' in their specification. In fact global warming is just one component of climate change.
There is a suggestion that in the medium term in the UK we may actually see cooling, and to use Gavin Cooke's phrase from his book 'Frozen Britain'; Britain may well be entering a new 'mini ice age'!
Three cold winters with prolonged bad weather, snow and freezing conditions might suggest that he is correct.
The book is worth reading; if he is correct then the Britains future looks bleak; at least for the next thirty years or so.
If nothing else it proves that climate change and global warming are a complex issue and one which we should study in detail.

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