Snow fell in Baghdad this morning for the first time in over 100 years.
"For the first time in my life I saw a snow-rain like this falling in Baghdad," said Mohammed Abdul-Hussein, a 63-year-old retiree from the New Baghdad area.
For a couple of hours anyway, a city where mortar shells routinely zoom across to the Green Zone became united as one big White Zone."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U3RFHO0&show_article=1 (Photo: Shwan Mohammed)
"For the first time in my life I saw a snow-rain like this falling in Baghdad," said Mohammed Abdul-Hussein, a 63-year-old retiree from the New Baghdad area.
For a couple of hours anyway, a city where mortar shells routinely zoom across to the Green Zone became united as one big White Zone."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U3RFHO0&show_article=1 (Photo: Shwan Mohammed)
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#cnnSTCText
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.
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.
Here's some more info:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=83D2B666-E7F2-99DF-32FD8CC329BC0535
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.
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.
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.