Bitterly cold weather and varying forms of precipitation left schools closed and confined many Chouf residents to their homes for the day. In the Higher Chouf, several roads were blocked by snow, including those in Barouk, Maaser and Ain Zhalta.
At least three people have died in the cold wave that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks. Environmental expert Wilson Rizk told The Daily Star that the cold wave had resulted from two factors: global warming and air pollution.
"When carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are trapped in the atmosphere, this will lead to boosting global warming and contributing to climate change," Rizk said. "Therefore, the summer season witnesses high temperatures and drought, while low temperatures and storms prevail in winter."
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
More carbon dioxide causes *colder* winters?!
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The neat thing about both climatology and psychology is that anything is rock-solid evidence for or against anything else, needing only the individual practitioner's divinations to tell us rubes which is which.
Now if could just figure out where Enron (or is it Exxon?, I get confused) is getting all the money they are paying us. And why I'm not getting my share.
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