Life: The Science of Biology
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Author: David E. Sadava, David M. Hillis, H. Craig Heller, Sally D. Hacker
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 24.2, Problem 1R
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The irrelevancy of discussing the occasional major winter blizzard under global warming.
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A winter blizzard is typically a winter storm occurring with different precipitates, such as snow, sleet, or a rainstorm. A blizzard causes less visibility and is characterized by snow. A severe blizzard has winds over 72 km/h (kilometre per hour) accompanying zero visibility, which is enough to make that region partially paralyzed. These occasionally occurring major blizzards are the living evidence against climatic changes, which in fact are favored by these changes.
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