Colder temperatures are related to global warming through the broad range of environmental impacts caused by the warming itself. While it was originally thought and expecting that increased temperatures would be most greatly felt around the equator, it has turned out the biggest temperature increases were at the poles. The resulting melting of the icecaps has fundamentally altered the environment causing global environmental changes that are still being studied and learned.

The oceans have the biggest impact on our global weather systems. So as the very structure of the oceans change, so too will the weather. It has been predicted the impacts will be we will see dry regions become drier, wet regions become wetter and storms will become more violent. In point of fact, the past twenty years we have seen a dramatic increase in the severity of storm systems and the number of deaths associated with weather patterns has been increasing. Just as important, though, is the nature of the impacts caused by warming won't necessarily be reflected in globally higher temperatures. Climate change is just as easily being felt as colder temperatures simply due to changing weather patterns caused by atmospheric changes which inhibit or enhance various wind patterns that effect localized temperatures.