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Indeed, a part of the observed warming is due to less reflection, as snow and ice cover has shrunk.
But shrinking snow and ice cover is itself a result of warming, so reduced reflection of solar rays is not the primary cause of warming.
Yesterday, there were flurries of snow in Istanbul.
Yet, caught in the sights of a gun barrel, nobody – not even the brave men and women who camped in their hundreds of thousands in the snow before Ukraine’s parliament – knew with certainty whether those changes had wrenched Ukrainians from the grip of fear and apathy.
Ominously, the Chinese bottled-water industry is sourcing its glacier water mainly from the eastern Himalayas, where accelerated melting of snow and ice fields is already raising concerns in the international scientific community.
When ships navigate the Arctic, pollutants like sulphur oxide and black carbon are deposited onto the ice and snow.
Last year, the city experienced the largest snow accumulation on record.
It was 68º Fahrenheit (20º Celsius) at Boston’s Logan Airport the day before Christmas, and the first speck of snow didn’t come until just before New Year’s Day.
It takes the felling of a sizeable forest to furnish enough paper for 714 million ballots, and every election has at least one story of officers battling through snow or jungle, or traveling by elephant and camel, to ensure that the democratic wishes of remote constituents are duly recorded.
Sometimes this crust is strong enough to carry a person and sometimes not, much like the hard ice crust that develops on snow in colder climates.
As Havel finished, a light snow began to fall and, as if on cue, his listeners took their places.
Still the procession came, weaving through the snow, everyone swinging their arms, skipping, happy, joyous.
Prague lay away in the distance, lighted and luminous in the snow.
Meanwhile, China’s bottled-water industry – the world’s largest – is siphoning “premium drinking water” from the Himalayas’ already-stressed glaciers, particularly those in the eastern Himalayas, where accelerated melting of snow and ice fields is already conspicuous.
Moreover, every election has at least one story of officials battling through snow or jungle to ensure that the preferences of remote constituents are duly recorded.
The UN climate panel estimates that Antarctica’s snow mass will actually increase during this century.
Hasnain, who is currently conducting a study of the accumulation of black carbon on snow at high altitudes in the Himalayas, is not some egotistical scientist seeking the limelight.
One factor could be deposits of dust and black carbon (collectively called aerosols) upon the snow, which, up to an accumulation of 400 grams per square meter sharply raises the rate of melting.
In particular, black carbon absorbs sunlight and radiates heat, thereby melting ice and snow.
There are possible disaster scenarios stemming from the disappearance of snow packs, rapid desertification, and so forth.
During that time, the snow melt from the region’s high plateaus has always arrived at precisely the right moment, and in precisely the right volume, to support the crops upon which the region’s people rely.
She says that the snow and ice have been melting.
Campaigners for carbon-emission reductions regularly highlight the melting snow and ice of Mount Kilimanjaro.
For those who prefer to stay home, DoorDash and Grubhub drivers scurry to bring customers hot meals, battling snow, rain, and gloom of night, like the heralded postmen of the past.
Their concerns were compounded by natural disasters – including severe freezing rain and snow storms in the south in January 2008 and the devastating Sichuan earthquake five months later, which killed 70,000 Chinese – as well as unrest in Tibet.
The specter of climate change threatens the SDGs just as surely as it does the receding snow line around Davos.
Just then M. Grégoire came back dressed in a thick fustian jacket; he also was ruddy for his sixty years, with large, good-natured, honest features beneath the snow of his curly hair.
When the last skirt fell from her, she appeared of pallid whiteness, that transparent snow of anaemic blondes; and he experienced a constant emotion in finding her, with hands and face already spoilt, as white as if dipped in milk from her heels to her neck, where the line of tan stood out sharply like a necklace of amber.
The snow never lay on it.
But he still held out, his head erect, and his beard and hair white as snow; his courage had so swollen his voice that he could be heard distinctly over the tumult.
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