Al Gore, call your office!

Scientists at ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology have concluded the harsh winters recently experienced in the United States are not the result of “climate change.”

In fact, the researchers believe “global warming” would actually cause temperatures and weather events to vary less.

The American Meteorological Society journal published the findings of Tapio Schneider, Tobias Bischoff and Hanna Płotka.

Record ice levels on the Great Lakes, Niagara Falls freezing over, eight feet of snow in New England and other wild, unusual occurrences led many to blame the weather on global warming.

But the study concludes that’s just not the case.

According to the scientists:

Using a highly simplified climate model, they examined various climate scenarios to verify their theory. It showed that the temperature variability in mid-latitudes indeed decreases as the temperature difference between the poles and the equator diminishes. Climate model simulations by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed similar results: as the climate warms, temperature differences in mid-latitudes decrease, and so does temperature variability, especially in winter.

Temperature extremes will therefore become rarer as this variability is reduced. But this does not mean there will be no temperature extremes in the future.

“Despite lower temperature variance, there will be more extreme warm periods in the future because the Earth is warming,” Tapio Schneider says.

“The waviness of the jet stream that makes our day-to-day weather does not change much.”