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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 10 2018, @04:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the get-your-snowboards-out dept.

Submitted via IRC for cmn32480

The Sahara Desert is famously hot, dry, generally inhospitable and covered in sand as far as the eye can see. It's a little bit more diverse than that in reality, however, with lush green segments dotted along the Nile Valley and scattered in the margins surrounding an extremely arid heart – and, yes, precipitation does fall across the region several times per year.

Snowfall on the sand dunes of the Sahara, however, is a little unexpected.

Source: http://www.iflscience.com/environment/extremely-rare-snowfall-blankets-sand-dunes-sahara/


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Entropy on Wednesday January 10 2018, @08:45AM (10 children)

    by Entropy (4228) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @08:45AM (#620390)

    It's too cold, must be global warming. Or too hot, or average, or any other potential outcome is sure evidence of global warming. I don't know about you--but I could use some global warming right about now.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 10 2018, @08:55AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday January 10 2018, @08:55AM (#620392) Journal

    You can't fool me, entropy. You want to burn the Earth to a crisp and then cool the universe into nothingness.

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    • (Score: 2) by Entropy on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:08PM

      by Entropy (4228) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:08PM (#620627)

      Well not both..

  • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:01AM (2 children)

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:01AM (#620413)

    It's too cold, must be global warming. Or too hot, or average,

    You missed the actual problem: it is too average.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:22PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:22PM (#620632)

      You joke, but that is the end game to the climate change predictions. On Venus the climate is extremely average. Latitude, and even day/night (which lasts ~1 earth year) makes little difference to the climate there.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:53PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:53PM (#620657)

        Climate = weather (in the latter two cases)

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:51AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:51AM (#620436)

    Found another individual with a sad childhood, who never played on a swing as a kid, so they never learned what happens as you keep adding more energy into a system :)

    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 10 2018, @05:50PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday January 10 2018, @05:50PM (#620540) Journal

      Even sadder is that he didn't learn to enjoy math or what an average is.

  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @02:11PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @02:11PM (#620460)
    Global warming means overall that the Earth's average temperature is going up, or in other words there is more energy in the Earth's atmosphere to go around. What happens when you add more energy to a dynamic system like the planet's atmosphere? You get more extreme variations in local areas, more extreme and unusual weather events, etc. I don't know why this simple fact seems to escape so many people.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:35PM (#620717)

      Global warming means overall that the Earth's average temperature is going up, or in other words there is more energy in the Earth's atmosphere to go around.

      I don't think temperature maps to energy like that. What happens if you increase the energy and decrease the pressure?

      What happens when you add more energy to a dynamic system like the planet's atmosphere? You get more extreme variations in local areas, more extreme and unusual weather events, etc.

      This is totally false. Look at Venus, which has extremely uniform and constant weather patterns.

    • (Score: 2) by Entropy on Thursday January 11 2018, @12:42PM

      by Entropy (4228) on Thursday January 11 2018, @12:42PM (#620910)

      While that may be true, it's also true that the temperature will almost never be average. So global warming alarmists like to claim GLOBAL WARMING! if temperatures are above average, or below average--which it will always be. Approximately 50% of temperature measurements will be above average, and approximately 50% of temperature measurements will be below average by definition. Thus, they've claimed 100% of outcomes to be a sure sign that they are right about MAN MADE global warming. Do you see the problem?