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A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow
Ponca City, We love you writes "NPR reports that with snow blanketing much of the country, the topic of global warming has become the butt of jokes; but for scientists who study the climate, there's no contradiction between a warming world and lots of snow. 'The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30 years ago means there's about on average 4 percent more water vapor lurking around over the oceans than there was... in the 1970s,' says Kevin Trenberth, a prominent climate scientist. 'So one of the consequences of a warming ocean near a coastline like the East Coast and Washington, DC, for instance, is that you can get dumped on with more snow partly as a consequence of global warming.' Increased snowfall also fits a pattern suggested by many climate models, in which rising temperatures increase the amount of atmospheric moisture, bringing more rain in warmer conditions and more snow in freezing temperatures."
So my question is this: For a theory to be Science it must be falsifiable
Then they shouldn't teach evolution in biology classes :)
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Yeah, and you know what's also true? Not one person -- not a SINGLE one -- of the people criticizing Scientology has a PhD in Scientology. Nor a doctorate of ANY kind in Scientology.
Let's see them get to OT8 before they start telling us what's wrong with it. Otherwise, they just haven't done the research.
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The idea that global warming will lead to increased crop yields is a dangerous fallacy. Increasing temperatures increases the evaporation rate so crops require more water. http://ezinearticles.com/?Smile-White-Pro-Review&id=3346984