• Question: How is global warming affecting weather in England? Is it getting hotter? Does global warming ever make a place colder?

    Asked by Zealousy to Chris, Josh, Rebecca, Rob, Susan on 26 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Rob Temperton

      Rob Temperton answered on 26 Jun 2015:

      Scientists pretty much stopped causing it global warming a few years back as it was considered misleading. Yes, the average global temperature is increasing, but this doesn’t always manifest itself as hotter days in England. Scientists have therefore adopted the phrase “climate change” as it is less misleading. We have noticed climate change in the UK – in my lifetime, the weather does seem to have become more erratic and less predictable. We experience more extremes of weather as a result of climate change – both hot and cold.

      Rob

    • Photo: Rebecca Dewey

      Rebecca Dewey answered on 26 Jun 2015:

      Global warming could make somewhere colder. For example there used to be ice covering the distance from Antarctica to Chile. When that ice melted, it allowed the circumpolar gyre to keep Antarctica cooler.

    • Photo: Chris Armstrong

      Chris Armstrong answered on 26 Jun 2015:

      We’ll be one of the few getting colder, the melting ice caps are expected to cut off the gulf stream (our source of warmth in the summer).

      Meaning as the rest of the world warms up, british weather gets slightly worse… classic

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