Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
I actually think we are, or maybe, going back into a small ice age, hopefully not a major one. I've actually said this in earlier posts over the years here. Now the lowest recorded temps ever recorded on Earth was done in the Antarctic, and it beat the old record of minus 128.6 F SOUNDLY, not by a degree or two but by a whopping 6.5 or so degrees! And the Antarctic ice sheet has grown to record size while Arctic ice has shrunk, so what does all this mean? No one knows for sure. But what we do know is that a record cold has gripped much of the US.
It's generally not good to draw big picture long term inferences from limited short term data. For example the jet stream is currently running almost directly North to South over the Rockies, sucking cold air down over the west and central states. Last year the jet stream spent almost the entire winter running west to east over Canada, then tanking a deep southerly dip over the east Atlantic.
So last year we had "global Warming" in the USA, while the Brits and French had an Ice Age.
Hopefully the jet stream will flatten and take all that arctic air across Canada and out to the Atlantic soon.