Of course, if global warming alarmists really had predicted that it would cause more frequent and severe cold outbreaks (via Mutant Polar Vortexes, Mutant Teenage Ninja Turtles, Yeti, or whatever), we should see such predictions all throughout the latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Then, when we have severe winter cold outbreaks, the alarmists say it is caused by global warming and they predicted it all along.
Surprisingly, however, over the past two to three decades, the increase in extreme weather has included more (not fewer) severe cold-air outbreaks and heavy snowfalls observed both in North America and Eurasia6,12,15,18,22,23,24,25.
Many suspect that enterovirus D-68 — which gave hundreds of people a severe cold in 2014 — also caused the paralysis outbreak that year.
Outbreaks of polar air westward from this high-pressure area cause occasional severe cold spells in parts of the European continent and eastward across the Arctic Ocean into Alaska and northern Canada.
Growth slows in severe cold and low precipitation regions.
Frostbite can be caused by exposure to severe cold or by contact with extremely cold objects.
Later in winter we could get another cold outbreak, but it is not likely," Banks said.
"All the ingredients are there for a near-record or historic cold outbreak," he said.
The winter in the severe cold area of China is long and cold.
"the onset of severe cold that begun at the end of November 2009..."..
