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Gore: "even though climate deniers have speciously argued for several years that there has been no warming in the last decade, scientists confirmed last month that the last 10 years were
the hottest decade since modern records have been kept.
The heavy snowfalls this month have been used as fodder for ridicule by those who argue that global warming is a myth, yet
scientists have long pointed out that warmer global temperatures have been
increasing the rate of evaporation from the oceans, putting significantly more moisture into the atmosphere — thus
causing heavier downfalls of both rain and snow in particular regions, including the Northeastern United States.
Just as it’s important not to miss the forest for the trees, neither should we miss the climate for the snowstorm.Here is what scientists have found is happening to our climate: man-made global-warming pollution traps heat from the sun and increases atmospheric temperatures. These pollutants — especially carbon dioxide — have been increasing rapidly with the growth in the burning of coal, oil, natural gas and forests, and temperatures have increased over the same period. Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising. Hurricanes are predicted to grow stronger and more destructive, though their number is expected to decrease. Droughts are getting longer and deeper in many mid-continent regions, even as the severity of flooding increases. The seasonal predictability of rainfall and temperatures is being disrupted, posing serious threats to agriculture. The rate of species extinction is accelerating to dangerous levels."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28gore.html?hp&pagewanted=print
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