I don’t really believe in global warming. What I do know is that the water streams which are called “El Nino and La Nina” are spicing things up a little lately causing some extreme weather conditions. But this happens every 10 years, it all natural. When you’re looking back at natures history you’ll discover that there have always been dramatic shifts in our climate system since the beginning with an accurate schedule. And since man is ruling the earth, we are running behind on that schedule. So I think that is what they call global warming. But non the less are we experiencing some extreme weather throughout the northern regions caused by El Nino. The winter wasn’t this severe since 1997. Europe is covered in snow and has temperatures far below average, the same is happening in the northern parts of America and Canada. Other strange conditions have been happening as well. Like The Olympic games in Vancouver are in trouble because they have no ice and no snow at all! And California and Florida are troubled by some severe thunderstorms and tornado’s. That’s unusual because it’s off season and out of location. Central America is awaiting for an winterstorm that will probably shut everything down for the upcoming 2 weeks.

So far we can be lucky out here in Rotterdam, no snowfall, no ice, no storms, just a temperature that you can describe as “cold”. Nothing unusual, but certainly not average. Otherwise we would be covered in sleet en rain with a daily temperature about 5 degrees celsius. The average this winter is about 10 degrees lower than that, not so bad, but definitely not exciting.