Starting out?

Global warming will clearly present us with many weather patterns we're not used to and, according to experts, for Europe this means a warmer climate, less snow and more rain - monsoon style. While I'm no expert on the matter (I mean, really no expert) I just wanted to point out that the term global warming ccould be a bit of a misnomer.

While some areas will undoubtedly get hotter and the general atmospheric temperature may rise, global warming could actually mean a decrease in temperature for some areas. The weather systems of the world are all finely in balance and a rush of cold water into the poles from the Antarctic or Amazon may even effect the sea currents and the Gulf Stream (which keeps the UK temperature artificially high for our latitude). If things like this were reversed then we would soon be looking to Moscow for our winter fashions.

I'm not saying this is how it would work, or saying the UK will be chilly, but just pointing out that not everything is going to get hot. I'd like to know if anyone out there knows of any places that may even turn into winter mountaineering destinations, like the Canaries?

I didn't know that the Canaries were a winter mountaineering destination. I guess if they are then the Caribbean probably is as well. Maybe global warming's impacted on what's lef tof my brain.

The gulf stream thing should sort out the trend towards poor Scottish winters though...

Nooooooooooooo. That was my point. They clearly aren't....yet...

They're about as good as Scotland has been for the past few seasons.

What is it with you and Scotland?

Or is it all a big fib as recently reported in the media ?

Well in that case I shall take up water skiing. It seems the way to go with all this glacier melting nonsense going on.