A Large-Scale Experiment with Climate – The Extreme Winter of 1939/40

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D. Cold Epeiric Seas – Cold Winters see

E. Concerning the Freezing of the North Sea and Baltic see

F. Closing Commentssee

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Chapter A. How to change Climate

Adolf Hitler started World War II in September 1939, and initiated the longest and biggest climate change of the last century. This book is about oceans, wars at sea and climate changes. It focuses on two major climate changes, which happened because man abused oceans through naval warfare two times during the last century.

Chapter B. Arctic winter 1939/40

The severe winter period in North Europe lasted from mid-December 1939 until April 1940. It was the coldest for more than 100 years. Allowing navies to participate in a war at sea, in Northern Europe natural heat reservoir, is like hastily stirring a hot soup to cool it down for quick consumption. Once the heat storage of North Sea and Baltic Seas has been diminished, water will warm again only during the next year summer.

Chapter C. The three years cold package & the war

The statistics for the war winter temperatures between 1939 and 1942 is nothing less than a “Big Bang”. In five out of six locations nothing comparable has ever happened since temperature observations have been made.

Chapter D. 20th Century Climate changed by the Naval War

The chapter will focus on the warming trend (1918-1939) and on the cooling trend (1939-1980). Naval war and supply across the seas became part of ocean physics for a long time. Correspondingly climatic changes during WWII have two distinct periods, namely the period before Pearl Harbour and the period thereafter. From September 1939 until early 1942, naval warfare was largely confined to European waters, than war at sea became a global matter.

Chapter E. Climate changes today

The book shows that the war activities on sea during WWI and WWII correlate perfectly with the only two significant climatic changes between 1900 and 2000. The first one started in 1918 and lasted until 1939, while the second started in the winter of 1939/40 and came to an end in the early 1980s. The temperature rise during the recent 25 years can have “new causes”, but it might as well be a resume of the steep temperature rise between 1918 and 1939, interrupted by WWII.

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2011-09-19

How naval war saved Russia in the winter of 1941/42

By: Dr. Arnd Bernaerts, 16 September 2011

The fact that weather prevented Adolf Hitler’s army to reach Moscow before the winter season is widely acknowledged. The New York Time brought the news on the front page of the 9^th December 1941 issue: "Nazis give up idea of Moscow in 1941. Winter forces abandonment of big drives in north till spring, Berlin says (New York Times, 09 Dec.1941). Temperature and snow conditions became worse than the worst imagination. What is not known is that Hitler could only blame himself and his advisors for this huge miscalculation.

See: The global temperature conditions: Fig. 1: November 1941; Fig. 2: December 1941; and Fig.3 (below): Dec./(Jan./Feb/ Temperatures at: St.Petersburg

The topic is about the role of naval war on the weather during the autumn of 1941. From all the numerous naval activities in Europe and in the North Atlantic, the eastern Baltic Sea was very severely under siege from June to December 1941. The moderating role of the Baltic Sea in the adjacent countries and eastwards, into the Euro-Asian continent, was immediately perturbed. Without the naval war operation in the Baltic Sea and in the North Sea, the weather would have not turned into an arctic mode. Modern climatology should do at least now what their predecessors should have done. For a long time now, science should have investigated and explained the reason for the exceptional winter conditions that took Europe into an icy grip. Further details in