Our nights are warming faster than our days, and (as with the USA) our winters are warming faster than our summers.

In the Highlands, our roads have permanent “snow poles” with reflectors. They are up to 3 metres high, and are intended to guide snow ploughs – but most of our snow ploughs have now been mothballed, and our once thriving skiing industry is now in free-fall.

We can’t blame the PDO for this (though there are some who blame the AMO).

Our Arctic hares still grow white coats in the winter. A few decades ago this provided them with great camouflage, but now it makes them easy targets for our birds of prey.

I’m confused about what’s going on in Alaska, though.

“Alaska has warmed 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit during the last 50 years”

“The period 1949 to 1975 was substantially colder than the period from 1977 to 2006″

“since 1977 little additional warming has occurred in Alaska with the exception of Barrow and a few other locations”

The third quote doesn’t seem to fit in with the first two.