Happy Winter, DU!

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2011/01/18/133020570/snowflakes?ft=1&f=97635953&

Earliest Snowflake Photos From 1885
Categories: Daily Picture Show
12:56 pm

January 18, 2011

by CLAIRE O'NEILL

In 1885, a man named Wilson A. Bentley attached a microscope to his camera and took what the Smithsonian considers the first image of a single snowflake.

About eight years later, Bentley sent some 500 snowflake prints to the institution. In light of the recent snow craziness that has fallen on 49 U.S. states, Smithsonian has dug up some of these early 'flake photos. You can see more on its site.






REQUISITE POLITICAL CONTENT FOR GD: 2010 Wettest on Record AND Tied for Warmest on Record

2010 wettest year on record, tied for hottest

by Meteor Blades
Thu Jan 13, 2011 at 09:01:13 AM PST

In terms of climate change, 2010 was remarkable for three things. First, media coverage of it "fell off the map." Network news and traditional print media were the worst. Second, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday, it tied with 2005 for being the warmest year beginning with 1880. Third, in terms of global average precipitation, it was the wettest of those 130 years:

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Why Snow Means Global Warming

What Global Warming? It’s freezing outside!

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

Peter Sinclair sums up the short-sighted nature of human understanding of this topic: “I looked outside, and it was snowing, therefore, there is no climate change.” If that’s what passes for rational thought in your social group, you owe it to yourself to watch this edition of Climate Denial Crock of the Week.

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[Pharaoh]

1. I got your winter right here

[Ernesto]

2. works for me!.... nt

[old mark]

3. As of about midnight last night, we had about 2 inches of snow, followed very early this morning

by freezing rain, which continued till early afternoon. Temps rose to about 32, and the ice began to melt. Now it is all freezing again, so many streets will be sheets of ice in time for the evening rush hour.

Happy winter indeed.


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