Is Europe freezing due to climate change?

For more than a month, many European countries have been attacked by snowstorms and cold. Temperature in many places has reached the lowest level in the last 10 years. The latest research shows that this phenomenon is closely related to global climate change.

Europe is suffering from cold weather for almost a month. (Photo: Internet).

A study by experts at the Potsdam Institute published in Geophysical Research confirms that the culprit of the cold wave is attacking Europe, because the global climate is warming, making ice. in the Arctic melted.

Stefan Rahmstorf , who participated in the research program, said that because the climate in the Arctic warmed up, over the past 30 years, the Arctic ice covered area has decreased by more than 20%. When the oceans are no longer covered with ice, they release warmth into the air, affecting the circulation of the atmosphere. As a result, cold air in the polar regions due to the impact of the high pressure system goes back to the European continent, creating snow and cold weather in this area.

Vladimir Petoukhov, head of the research program, also said that in addition to the above two causes, the decline of the Sun's activities as well as the change of warm currents in the Gulf of Mexico are also the causes of heat. European levels are so low.

Figures from the World Meteorological Organization also show that 2010 will become one in three years with the highest average temperature since 1850, when people began to record temperature. Petoukhov said that this conclusion was completely inconsistent with the cold winter that Europe was suffering. When Germany and other countries were hit by snowstorms and frostbite, Greenland said, December temperatures were above 0 degrees Celsius.