Snow Falls in Baghdad!

• Alex
  January 11th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

  Hell hath officially frozen over.

• Doctor Slack
  January 11th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

  Someone needs to make a zany comedy out of this starring Cuba Gooding, Jr.

• Curious
  January 11th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

  This is amazing! My dad has been to Baghdad, twice, and he wishes he had been there for this.

  Here is a link to an amazing article that, instead of shedding a negative shade on the subject of Iraq, illuminated the possibility of peace in the country with hope.

  http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/11/iraq.snow.ap/index.html#cnnS TCText

• Happy
  January 11th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

  very cool. good to find that there’s some happiness even in baghdad’s circumstances..

• Tom
  January 12th, 2008 at 2:05 am

  I’m still on the lookout for the flying pigs before I get my hopes up on Iraq.

• Yak
  January 12th, 2008 at 3:06 am

  Didn’t someone say something about Global Warming?

  What was that again? Oh the snow was caused by the pollutants in the air that saturated the air so much it lowered the temperature and increased humidity in the atmosphere above this area that it made the snow fall?

  I see.

  Fuck them scientists, and fuck the Yanks for bringing this shit to the rest of the world.

• Mokuwai
  January 12th, 2008 at 3:17 am

  It’s global warming right?

• e6c
  January 12th, 2008 at 4:34 am

  I hate to break it to the news media, but this is just not correct. When I was in Iraq it snowed and hailed. Nothing accumulated on the ground, but it definetly fell out of the sky.

• Louise
  January 12th, 2008 at 10:53 am

  Geez, “global warming” is a misnomer. The real name for this extremely real phenomenon is “climate change.”

  Look it up. It’s when weather patterns of extremely long duration change because of alterations in wind and sea currents. Snow for the first time in 100 years counts.

  You can insult people who suggest that its primary cause is human activity, or that humans should therefor do things differently, but you can’t sneer at the basic idea that it is happening, or that humans are contributing. Even Bush acknowledges its existence.

• Acris
  January 12th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

  To Louise: Humans are contributing. It was announced on February 2, 2007 by the IPCC that they were 90% sure that the climate change was due to human activity.

  Here’s some more info:

  http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=83D2B666-E7F2-99DF-32FD8CC3 29BC0535

• Louise
  January 12th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

  Acris,

  Now it seems that the climate warming skeptics have, for the most part, agreed that humans are contributing to climate change.

  They have shifted the debate to whether or not it matters whether humans have affected earth’s climates. Something else, they argue, is even more responsible. Sunspots. Natural phenomena. For all we know, the hot breath of angry angels might be responsible.

  In any event, there still, according to this argument, is absolutely no reason to change our behavior. Drive! Burn fossil fuels wildly! Tear off the tops of mountains, dump fertilizers and pesticides into the oceans!

  Well, there will be change, whether they believe they can affect it or not.

• ted
  January 12th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

  Angels don’t get angry. They get even.

• Sid Morrison
  January 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

  They only started calling it “global climate change” when it became evident that the climate actually has high years and low years.

  Those of us who grew up in the 1970s remember the “coming ice age scare” that was all preached to us. Global “warming” came immediately thereafter. Now “Climate change” is a safe way to cover all bases and look for government research welfare and a crippling of Western economies (the 3rd World is free to catch up though).

  Obviously, the earth’s climate is inherently dead nuts stable and any movement up or down is caused by man’s influence. Right? Fools.

• Aerek
  January 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

  1. Any changes in climate due to people or not?
  2. If people are a factor do we need to do something about it?

  It’s possible and recommended to discuss this stuff minus any irrational, idealogical, political, religious zealotry. Also, answers don’t come from asses.

• Ali S.
  January 13th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

  Well, what better place for opponents to the Global Warming scenario to do a double-take than to have a high profile place getting snow where it shouldn’t?

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