On Jan 5, 3:49*pm, Richard Dixon wrote:
Another viewpoint, from the New York Times...(correct newsgroup this
time...!)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/op...ohen.html?_r=1

Richard

Everybody seems to be now jumping on the bandwagon that cold
winters, at least in some sectors of the N Hemisphere, are caused by
the circulation changes that come about with global warming. This has
a certain plausibility to it but why did no-one mention it a few years
ago and say that this was something we might expect? Instead, we were
told that winters would be stormy and wet with an increased risk of
flooding and that snow was a thing of the past. Does anybody, even
some well-accredited climatologists, really know anything or are they
yet another example of Private Eye's adaptable columnist Phil Space?

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.