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Aristotleded24
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posted 08 January 2006 02:47 PM
South and East Asia freeze.From the BBC: quote:
Temperatures in India's capital Delhi have plummeted to the lowest in 70 years amid a cold snap that has claimed more than 100 lives in northern areas.
A spokesman at the weather office told the BBC the temperature between 0500 and 0600 local time was 0.2C, the lowest since 1935.
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At least 61 people have died and more than 1,000 have been injured as a result of the snowfall, which began last month. In some of the worst-hit areas the snow is more than three metres (10ft) deep.
Again, what was it the skeptics said about "oh, don't worry our climate isn't changing at all?" Something's not right here.
From: Winnipeg | Registered: May 2005
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gram swaraj
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posted 29 January 2006 01:31 PM
Quite possibly, the cold and snow in Asia is due to melting Himalayan glaciers.There is enough heat to cause a net melting and evaporation of the glaciers, but not yet enough trapped heat to turn the resultant moisture in the atmosphere into rain. Seems in Western Canada, we had our record snowfalls and cold temperatures around 1996. Since then, it's been steadily decreasing snowfall and increasing temperatures in the winter. The Himalayan glaciers are further inland and higher up than the Rockies. Maybe this explains why they've reached this point of melting later. I acknowledge that the above are all personal hypotheses. But I think they are grounded on common sense that most people can see, if they're heads aren't stuck in the sand.
From: mon pays ce n'est pas un pays, c'est la terre | Registered: Dec 2005
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