25 de janeiro de 2011

E para variar, como vamos do aquecimento global?

Em minha opinião a procissão já saiu do adro e tudo decorre como num argumento de um filme de catástrofe à Hollywood: estamos na fase onde o número das anomalias se densifica, os maus da fita dizem que nada sucede, e os outros, a maioria, continuam distraídos.

Não me apetece dizer muito sobre o assunto. Quanto muito darei conta, de vez em quanto, de coisas como esta notícia do NYT:

Topsy-Turvy Weather - U.S. Is Frigid, and Arctic Warmer Than Usual - NYTimes.com: "Judging by the weather, the world seems to have flipped upside down. For two winters running, an Arctic chill has descended on Europe. For two winters running, an Arctic chill has descended on Europe, burying that continent in snow and ice. Last year in the United States, historic blizzards afflicted the mid-Atlantic region. This winter the Deep South has endured unusual snowstorms and severe cold, and a frigid Northeast is bracing for what could shape into another major snowstorm this week.

Yet while people in Atlanta learn to shovel snow, the weather 2,000 miles to the north has been freakishly warm the past two winters. Throughout northeastern Canada and Greenland, temperatures in December ran as much as 15 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. Bays and lakes have been slow to freeze; ice fishing, hunting and trade routes have been disrupted.

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