UAE gets first ever snow fall

[Walt Starr]

UAE gets first ever snow fall


Thursday 30 December 2004, 12:38 Makka Time, 9:38 GMT

Snow has fallen over the United Arab Emirates for the first time ever, leaving a white blanket over the mountains of Ras al-Khayma.

With the desert country experiencing a cold spell and above-average rainfall, Dubai airport's meteorology department said on Thursday that snow fell over the al-Jiys mountain range in the most northerly member of the UAE federation.

The Gulf News daily reported that the mountain cluster, 1737 metres above sea level, "had heavy night-time snowfall for the past two days as a result of temperatures dropping to as low as -5C".

On Monday, 12.6 millimetres of rain fell on the desert emirate of Dubai, where it hardly ever rains.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/669DA83D-AA88-4426-BB8B-76D0928B0A51.htm

And some people fail to learn the lesson that global warming will produce quirky weather.

[Egalitariat]

1. We need to ditch the term "Global Warming"

Snow in the UAE is exactly what allows the RW simpletons to write off global warming as a legitimate phenomenon.

"Warming" and "snow" just don't go together.

[Walt Starr]

2. Sorry, it is due to global warming

If a rieichwingnut can't wrap their brain around the fact that rising global temperatures result in a wider swath of temperature swings, it's not my problem!

[Egalitariat]

6. Actually, it is your problem. If you care anything about electing

leaders who will make changes in the way we rape the Earth.

Sticking to ideological guns is a great way to lose a bunch of elections while retaining your ability to say "I told you so".

[Walt Starr]

10. See my post #5

[Sporadicus]

3. I Agree

'Global climate change' is a much better description: warmer in some areas, colder in others - but change nonetheless.

[mcscajun]

4. They don't get beyond the word "warming"...

...that's the problem. They mistake the whole concept for "everything will get warmer".

Another result of poor science education in this country in general, and earth science in particular. They probably got a graphic in elementary school (if they were lucky) on the hydrologic cycle and another on erosion, but not much beyond that.

Everytime it snows somewhere it shouldn't (like the UAE), or breaks a record in some place unheard of (like in Galveston, TX last week), they yell out "Global Warming, huh? Doesn't look very Warm to me!"

Ignorance...it makes you crazy.

On edit: I started using "climate change" with broader audiences some time ago; "global warming" just doesn't cut it.

[Walt Starr]

5. Damn, it's disgusting that we have to reword it for kindergarten minds

Fucking morons.

Oh well, Global Climate Change it is!

[elehhhhna]

12. Hoz'bout "Weather FUBAR"? Cons love that military shit.

[Walt Starr]

14. Maybe!

How 'bout, "the hydrocarbons in the atmosphere have weapons of mass destruction and were working with Al-Queda on September 11th."

:shrug:

[elehhhhna]

16. Try again. Bush could NEVER get that sentence out. Never.

[JI7]

7. that is SOOOOOOOO annoying

i have had that experience many times. when i bring up something like the changes in weather patterns as evidence of global warming the assholes respond with "then why is it raining or snowing or cold". the dumb fucks.

[Squatch]

8. "Global warming" is probably not the best term

from a political standpoint. All it takes is one event like this for antis to decry global warming. "How can there be global warming, when it's snowing in the desert."

JMO

[Walt Starr]

11. Yeah, we have to play to childish minds in this

:eyes:

Unfortunately.

[Cleopatra2a]

9. South TX had a white Christmas

It actually snowed on the beach in Corpus Christi. It had not snowed in over 100 years in the Mexican border towns. Some places had 12".

[crispini]

13. Dudes, we're so fucked.

I'm actually starting to be glad I don't have kids. This planet is about to shake us off bigtime.

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[JCMach1]

15. 3 days of cold rain here... didn't see snow in Sharjah though

this snow would be high up in the mountains...

But yes, truly bizarre...

[reprobate]

17. The term to use is "Global Climate Change".

Some places will be warmer and some places will be colder and some places will be wetter and some places will be dryer.

The only constant here is "change".

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[amandabeech]

20. Do you have a link for this article?

Or is this something from the '70s or '80s? I remember reading something about a new ice age back in '81 or '82. Winters in the '70s and early '80s were particularly severe.

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[apple_ridge]

21. An interesting article on the possibility of another ice age.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0130-11.htm

[murray hill farm]

22. yesterday, i started a thread on the topic

of how all the earth is connected..and that for every action there is a reaction, etc. i was amazed how i was slammed from every angle on this one...folks were really angry...so strange. Does this thought scare some folks so much that they MUST block it out at every chance?