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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/
(Score: -1, Troll) by Entropy on Wednesday January 10 2018, @08:45AM (10 children)
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.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 10 2018, @08:55AM (1 child)
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
Well not both..
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:01AM (2 children)
It's too cold, must be global warming. Or too hot, or average,
You missed the actual problem: it is too average.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @09:22PM (1 child)
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
Climate = weather (in the latter two cases)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:51AM (1 child)
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
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)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 10 2018, @11:35PM
I don't think temperature maps to energy like that. What happens if you increase the energy and decrease the pressure?
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
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?