 Poster: A snowHead
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Over the past few days, locations as far apart as Finland, Korea, Turkey and Georgia have been experiencing exceptional snowfalls and avalanche problems.
Finland's capital Helsinki has had sustained low temperatures and above-average snowfall, exhausting all the city's regular snow-dumping sites. Click Helsingin Sanomat.
Korea has seen the heaviest snow for 100 years. Click The Korea Herald.
Turkey has been swept by snow, floods and avalanches. Click Planet Ark.
And in the Caucasus mountains in Georgia, exceptional avalanche detonation work has taken place. Click Itar-Tass.
It all seems to confirm concerns about more extreme weather conditions from climate change. Or doesn't it?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It's another set of data points, no more, I'd say. Or is that merely stating the obvious?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Likewise the sun has been going through an unusual period of activity (much much higher than expected in the normal 11 year cycle) it is known that this will have an effect on th eearths weather what isn't known is what that effect will be which is why scientists are studying it at the moment
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One of the safest responses from the pro-oil lobby is that there are so many factors at play, medium- and long-term trends/cycles, that it is impossible to directly link evidence of global warming (such as they've grudgingly admitted) to the burning of fossil fuels etc. So we'll probably only know for sure when it's too late 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Mind you that pro oil lobby is the same group that finace G Dubya Bush, the man who siglehandedly did the most to help global warming continue when he pulled out of the Kyoto agreement
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There's the argument that if you don't know, do nothing. A lot of people seem to think that the "do nothing" scenario is carryu on as we are. Except to carry on as we are is to pump large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which is not doing nothing.
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