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Originally Posted by PaulS

and yet the Artic is "balmy"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/sc...d.html?_r=1&hp

makes sense I guess:

Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change
James E. Hansen and Makiko Sato
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Earth Institute, New York

page 11
" For example, Earth is now closest to the sun in January, which favors warm winters and cool summers in the Northern Hemisphere....."


or maybe all of the hot global warming air is rising to the top of the world...pushing the arctic air blast that we are experiencing southward

I hope the polar bears don't drown.....