This powerful storm battered Finland in 2010
Bizarrely for a meteorologist, Alestalo seemed surprised at the idea that the cold winters could be caused by melting snow from the arctic. Arctic ice cover in recent years has dropped to record lows in summer causing large amounts of fresh water to spill into the North Atlantic, possibly affecting the function of the North Atlantic Drift that keeps Western Europe relatively warm throughout the year.
Yet also in recent years, during the Winter, arctic ice cover has tended to rebound in Winter, setting up further massive melts for the following summer.
Of course the problem with the warmist position on all this extra cold and snow is that the global climate is cooling and has been for a dozen years. Worse still the cooling is dominated by the Northern Hemisphere which has a current rate of -1.8 degrees centigrade per century. Even worse is that this cooling is concentrated in Eurasia.
Could it possibly be that more snow is due to colder climate rather than warmer climate?
Of course the warmists will argue that there is already a great deal of snow in North Africa this year and as Africa is known to be warmer than Europe this proves that warmer climates result in much more snow lying on the ground. Therefore by the time man made global waming has increased ocean temperatures to boiling point we will find the Earth has a huge band of snow and ice around the equator.
Al Gore is hoping to profit from the warmer equals colder effect by opening ski resorts in Uruguay and Timbuktu.