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• EconProf said:
  

  Did you know that in cold, northern areas, it has to warm up before it can snow? That’s why the highest snowfall normally occurs further south in Buffalo, Syracuse, and Rochester, the snowiest cities in the U.S. The snowiest years occur in Watertown when it is too warm for the nearby lake to freeze.

  Let’s try explaining this in small words so the undereducated can understand. See, there is a difference between weather and climate. Global climate change is threfore not at all like global weather change. Weather is what occurs today, this week or this year. Climate is what persists for decades, centuries and thousands of years So, this year there can and are wet and dry regions, hot and cold seasons. Climate change, on the other hand involve permanent alternations in things like the ice caps, average temperature and rainfall, disappearances in glaciers, melting of Greenland and the release of the greenhouse gas methane trapped there for eons. Once that methane is released, there is no way to unscramble the omelet no matter how much carbon emissions are capped. We can no longer stop the process,, only slow and delay it (perhaps) before sea levels flood all the world’s coastal cities and ultimately make the planet uninhabitably hot. Reactionaries are betting they are dead before this happens, and political leaders hope they won’t be prosecuted for crimes against mankind. So, maybe anti-Kyoto types are correct, if for all the wrong reasons. Eat, drink, and be merry may indeed be the proper policy now that we allowed the planet to go down the drain.

  But don’t you think they should at least start building spaceships? On second thought, no, because these neanderthals should be the last people allowed to repopulate elsewhere. They have demonstrated a lack of survival instinct critical for interplanetary natural selection, don’t you agree?

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  Luigi_Bosco Reply:
  December 26th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

  In even smaller words so that even the educated may understand…”never confuse education for intelligence’.

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  -June 23rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
• Clover Hollister said:
  

  You are sooooooooo wrong on sooooooooo many levels!! The most snow falls on the Tug Hill Plateau area-that’s just NW of the Adirondack mountains. A condition sometimes called the Alberta Express reveals itself as a system steaming over the Lake Ontario picking up moisture-(the more difference in air temp and water temp–the more moisture) and said system becomes burdened and unable to make it over the higher elevations of the Adirondacks–must dump snow in Worth, NY—Barnes Corners, Pulaski, Montague, Lowville–but especially Worth and Diamond. Even 5 miles further south can result in several feet difference in snow fall. As the Eskimos say, “we have 1,000 names for snow”-one of the better former snowmobile bars was called, “Lake Effect”. So, whoever thinks the Buffalo or Rochester snow even comes close to the Tug–hasn’t spent a winter in upstate NY–aka N of Syracuse, W of Rome, S of Massena and E of Rochester. PLEEEEZZE!!
  …and don’t share this with anyone because those folks don’t want to share the serenity of the snow with loud ASS##### who can’t drive in it.—

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  -October 29th, 2008 at 5:01 pm

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