In message <[log in to unmask]>, Jim Phillips 
<[log in to unmask]> writing at 04:14:27 in his/her local time opines:-
>For my friends across the pond:
> 
>England may face more severe winters
>READING, England (UPI) -- British and German scientists say a link 
>between low solar activity and Atlantic jet streams might explain 
>Europe's colder than usual past winter.
>
>Scientists at the University of Reading, the U.K. Science and 
>Technology Facilities Council and the Max-Planck Institute for Solar 
>System Research in Germany said people living in regions northeast of 
>the Atlantic Ocean might need to brace themselves for more frequent 
>cold winters in coming years. The researchers said the sun is moving 
>into an era of lower solar activity, which is likely to result in 
>winter temperatures in that area more like those seen at the end of the 
>17th century.
>
>"This year's winter in the U.K. has been the 14th coldest in the last 
>160 years and yet the global average temperature for the same period 
>has been the 5th highest," Lecturer Michael Lockwood of the University 
>of Reading said. "We have discovered that this kind of anomaly is 
>significantly more common when solar activity is low."
>
>Lockwood said the trends do not guarantee colder winters, but they do 
>suggest colder winters will become more frequent.
>
>The study appears in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
>
>
>Copyright 2010 by United Press International

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about the future".

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