Does global warming decrease the time of the winter season?

“You can't tell much about the climate or where it's headed by focusing on a particularly frigid day, or season, or year, even,” writes Eoin O'Carroll of the Christian ... read more

Most people think about global warming during the dog days of summer. But temperatures are rising in the winter too, and that means less snow. Winter climate change raises important science and policy questions. A decrease in frigid nights means fewer frozen pipes and failing furnaces. read more

The flip side of the question, of course, is whether global warming is at least partly to blame for especially harsh winter weather. As we pointed out in a recent EarthTalk column, warmer temperatures in the winter of 2006 caused Lake Erie to not freeze for the first time in its history. read more