This is not our assertion. We cite Mark Serreze and colleagues, who published a 1997 paper in the Journal of Climate . Not to put too fine a point on it, Your Grace, but the observed trend is in a direction opposite that which is oft proclaimed by assorted Henny Pennies. However, they ignore climate models that predict the opposite. But don t take our word for it.
Conclusions regarding extreme storm events are obviously even more uncertain.
Houghton , J.T., et al., 1996. Contribution of WGI to the Second Assessment Report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Serreze, M.C. et al., 1997. Climatological Features, Linkages witht the NAO, and Relationships with Recent Changes in the Northern Hemisphere Circultaion.