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Travelers going through New York City these days are experiencing similar disruptions due to excessive snow falls caused by a blizzard like many travelers in Europe a week ago. New York’s airports shut down and cancelled hundreds of flights, railroad companies switched to weekend or holiday schedules and driving became a nightmare as snowplows struggled to clear the streets.

As I already mentioned in last week’s post  “the recent travel chaos in Europe and climate change“, unusually high amounts of snow in winter or below-average temperatures don’t contradict the climate change theory.

Earlier this year Republican Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma built Al Gore an Igloo, mocking that global warming could not be an issue to worry about in the face of a very snowy week in D.C.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4013671/senator-builds-al-gore-an-igloo/ 

According to The Telegraph, 2010 was one of the hottest three years on record. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8222843/2010-the-year-in-science.html)

Ice sheets and glaciers are melting at an accelerating pace. Hence more moisture is available and comes either in the form of excess snow in winter or excess rainfall in summer. Global warming means that the global average temperature is increasing with extreme weather events becoming more frequents. Some areas, however, may indeed experience a fall in temperatures, increases in precipitation as opposed to rising temperatures and generally drier conditions.

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