An amazing snowstorm blanketed New England this past weekend. Called Nemo, it dumped up to forty inches of snow on Connecticut and thirty inches in Boston.
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| Boston after Nemo |
I was born in New England and my earliest years were spent there. I loved winter and playing in the snow. It's great when you're a kid and your only concern is having fun. I experienced some big snows, but nothing like Nemo.
As expected, there are climate deniers that claim Nemo is evidence that global warming is a hoax. The opposite is true. Nemo was caused by a convergence of a Canadian cold front and a warmer system off the Atlantic that was loaded to the gills with moisture. When they came together, the result was Nemo with record snowfalls all over New England. The operative word here is 'warmer'. Even a tiny increase in temperature in the atmosphere over the ocean translates to substantively more moisture uptake in the weather system.
Climate change is not a hoax. The physics behind it are not complicated. It's already bad and will continue to get worse. Humans are responsible for climate change. Humanity must fix the problem. Now!
Here is a cool time lapse video of Nemo burying a street scene in Boston with snow. http://vimeo.com/59328635
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