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...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 an ad last weekend that attacked two Democratic...
Brace yourselves now - this may be a case of politicians twisting the facts. 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...
...World-renowned soprano Renée Fleming challenged student singers to push their limits in a master class yesterday as part of Harvard’s Learning From Performers program, offering feedback for four performers and leading the audience through a number of breathing exercises...
...almost any aspect of the life sciences as it relates to business, technology, medicine, science, engineering, politics, sociology, than perhaps any other scientific discipline,” says Chien. “It encompasses a lot of the features of the complexity of modern science in a modern world...
...Quotes By: "We can announce very responsibly that we have liberated the whole country from terrorism." - To Sri Lankan state television after security forces defeated the last remaining Tamil Tigers, effectively ending one of the world's longest-running civil wars (CBC News...