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NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 01:55 PM Mar 2015

BTW, snowstorms and harsh winters ARE symptoms of Climate Change

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/impacts/global-warming-rain-snow-tornadoes.html#.VQR1bY7F830



The United States is already experiencing more intense rain and snow storms.
As the Earth warms, the amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest one percent of storms has risen nearly 20 percent on average in the United States—almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation between 1958 and 2007.

In other words, the heaviest storms have very recently become even heavier.





They call it completely predictable.

"Big snowfall, big rainstorms, we've been saying this for years," says climate scientist Don Wuebbles of the University of Illinois in Urbana. "More very large events becoming more common is what you would expect with climate change, particularly in the Northeast."


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150126-blizzard-weather-climate-northeast-science/
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BTW, snowstorms and harsh winters ARE symptoms of Climate Change (Original Post) NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 OP
shhhh...don't tell the senator with the snowball spanone Mar 2015 #1
Yup Bradical79 Mar 2015 #2
 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
2. Yup
Sat Mar 14, 2015, 02:26 PM
Mar 2015

That's really all I can think of to say. Climate scientists told us what would happen, it happened... then people act surprised while still claiming the scientists are full of crap. I'm not sure what to do anymore.

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