Photo by David Eulitt/Kansas City Star
Right now, many parts of the country has either been hit, or is being hit with major winter snowstorms and blizzards. This includes the Kansas City area where I live. There are people who think that because of these massive winter storms, global warming is a myth. Some of you might think Bill O'Reilly. Actually O'Reilly does believe global warming is real, but did jokingly say recently that he he needs to call Al Gore to explain all of this snow. Well, Al Gore responded in a piece to Huffington Post by quoting Clarence Paige in the Chicago Tribune:
"In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow."
"A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires and loss of endangered species."
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