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...blizzard-bound residents of the mid-Atlantic region get ready to dig themselves out of the third major storm of the season, they may stop to wonder two things: Why haven't we bothered to invest in a snow blower, and what happened to climate change? After all, it stands to reason that if the world is getting warmer - and the past decade was the hottest on record - major snowstorms should become a thing of the past, like PalmPilots and majority rule in the Senate. Certainly that's what the Virginia state Republican Party thinks: the GOP aired...
...years. While the frequency of storms in the middle latitudes has decreased as the climate has warmed, the intensity of those storms has increased. That's in part because of global warming - hotter air can hold more moisture, so when a storm gathers it can unleash massive amounts of snow. Colder air, by contrast, is drier; if we were in a truly vicious cold snap, like the one that occurred over much of the East Coast during parts of January, we would be unlikely to see heavy snowfall. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
...film was shot in the town of Snow Basin, Utah, located 10,000 feet above sea level, during the middle of the coldest time of year...
...lyrics about cycles of death and rebirth. Unfortunately, while he does manage to capture a sense of stillness and bleakness, there is no suggestion of spring to come, and the gloomy minor key sustained throughout leaves the listener wanting to hibernate rather than go for a romp in the snow...
...snow and terrain are not inducements enough to head to Alaska, then consider that your trip may well include sightings of soaring golden eagles, gigantic moose, mountain goats, otters, seals and possibly even an orca in the bay. The ice-climbing is world class, as are the skiers and boarders who congregate from all parts of the globe to test themselves on the steepest skiable pitches and the finest snow to be found anywhere. It doesn't matter where you may have skied or boarded before - the Chugach will make your jaw drop. As Doug Coombs famously said, "Everything else...