While the winter of 2009/2010 is not yet over, Europe has suffered from record low temperatures and heavy snowfalls, while the Mid-Atlantic United States has experienced record-braking snowfalls, the most recent crippling the Nation’s Capitol city of Washington, D.C. Meanwhile the Northeastern United States and Pacific Northwest have been experiencing temperatures warmer than usual and below normal precipitation, forcing Vancouver, B.C. to haul in snow for the winter Olympics. In spite of the fact that these conditions are exactly what is to be expected from climate change, the more severe winter conditions have brought out the climate deniers in full force. It is thus probably germane to repeat some of the fundamentals of global warming/climate change.
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