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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Triffin who wrote (14238)6/28/2007 10:06:23 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 36917
 
June 27 (Bloomberg) -- Johannesburg recorded its first
confirmed snowfall for almost 26 years overnight as temperatures
dropped below freezing in South Africa's largest city, grounding
flights at its main airport....


Do you think that story has any relevance at all to global warming?

jttmab



To: Triffin who wrote (14238)6/28/2007 12:26:07 PM
From: Skywatcher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36917
 
Arizona Dust Causes Colorado Meltdown

In 2006, snows in areas of Colorado's San Juan Mountains above and below the tree line (above which trees can no longer grow), unexpectedly melted a month earlier than usual.

The cause for the premature melt was dust, most likely originally from parched deserts in Arizona and New Mexico, hundreds of miles away.
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