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...There is some evidence that climate change could in fact make such massive snowstorms more common, even as the world continues to warm. As the meteorologist Jeff Masters points out in his excellent blog at Weather Underground, the two major storms that hit Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., this winter - in December and during the first weekend of February - are already among the 10 heaviest snowfalls those cities have ever recorded. The chance of that happening in the same winter is incredibly unlikely...
...winter storms go, shouldn't climate change make it too warm for snow to fall? Eventually that is likely to happen - but probably not for a while. In the meantime, warmer air could be supercharged with moisture and, as long as the temperature remains below 32°F, it will result in blizzards rather than drenching winter rainstorms. And while the mid-Atlantic has borne the brunt of the snowfall so far this winter, areas near lakes may get hit even worse. As global temperatures have risen, the winter ice cover over the Great Lakes has shrunk, which...
Ultimately, however, it's a mistake to use any one storm - or even a season's worth of storms - to disprove climate change (or to prove it; some environmentalists have wrongly tied the lack of snow in Vancouver, the site of the Winter Olympic Games, which begin this week, to global warming). Weather is what will happen next weekend; climate is what will happen over the next decades and centuries. And while our ability to predict the former has become reasonably reliable, scientists are still a long way from being able to make accurate projections about the future...
...administration approved over 93 percent of more than 1,400 applicants for room and board on campus during the College’s inaugural J-Term. But that left thousands of undergraduates—facing the longest winter break in recent history—without permission to stay in the Houses...
...begun. No, the torch has not yet been lit, and NBC has not yet commenced its features on inspiring athletes, but the buzz around this year’s winter Olympics in Vancouver has already started. Just last week, Sports Illustrated came under fire for running a controversial cover featuring American skier Lindsey Vonn in what many are calling a sexually provocative pose. While that story will most likely fade from the public’s consciousness as Vonn’s actual skiing begins, there will inevitably still be plenty of controversy surrounding many of the other events taking...