CO2 Density 14X Higher On Mars – Yet Temperatures Are Cold Enough To Form Dry Ice | Real Science

Mars is a spectacularly cold place, despite the fact that their atmosphere has 14 times as many CO2 molecules per cubic meter than earth’s atmosphere. A scientist with a functional brain might infer that the low atmospheric pressure on Mars causes the low temperatures.

Record Breaking SnowPack over Eurasia

Almost Top 10 for N. America

“Snow cover at week 45 (last week) reaches Record-Setting levels,” says reader Ralph Fato.

Extreme weather: We're gambling with lives at ever worsening odds | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Furthermore, with every step forward in understanding of the complexities of weather, climate and warming, the odds worsen. Studying extreme weather is hard as the events are by definition rare. But painstaking and labour-intensive studies of some events have revealed the smoking gun of global warming.

The European heatwave of 2003, that caused over 40,000 premature deaths, was made four to six times more likely by climate change.

New York as Venice, Minus the Romance - NYTimes.com

The report’s authors paint an evocative picture of what this might mean for our low-lying coastal regions: “The greater frequency of severe flooding events affecting the increasing number of waterfront residences may lead to abandonment of ground floors (as in Venice) or ultimately of entire buildings,” they write.