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Once Again: Winter Doesn’t Disprove Global Warming

Why is it that we have to go through this every year? Winter arrives. It gets cold. Dumb-as-a-rock Fox commentators make sarcastic comments insinuating that global warming is a scam. Dumb-as-a-rock sheeple repeat the stupidity all over the internet. And so it goes.
Despite the fact that 2009 is one of the hottest years on record, [...]

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Fire Tornadoes Make Forest Fires Even More Deadly

Photo credit: Josh Lane
Forest fires are already frightening and deadly enough on their own, but when the conditions are right, something hellish happens: fire whirls. Fires sometimes spawn their own winds as the flames consume oxygen, creating tornadoes filed with fire and noxious gases.
From Discover Magazine:
All these wonders start with the plume that is formed [...]

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Rare ‘Smiling Rainbow’ Seen Over Sussex, England

Whoever heard of an upside-down rainbow? People in Sussex, England glimpsed an extremely rare phenomenon when “freak atmospheric conditions” created a ribbon of light in the sky shaped like a smile. But what they saw technically wasn’t even a rainbow at all.
From The Daily Mail:
While normal rainbows are formed when light penetrates raindrops and emerges [...]

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The Bizarre Natural Phenomenon of Ball Lightning – Photos and Video

Image via Xenophilia
No, that’s not a UFO you just saw travel across the horizon. That bizarre orb of glowing light is called ‘ball lightning’, and despite many reports of sightings over hundreds of years, scientists still know very little about this strange and unusual natural phenomenon.
They can’t tell us what causes it, or even exactly [...]

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Unusual Cluster of Earthquakes in Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park has been experiencing an unusual string of earthquakes lasting three days in a row, from Saturday to Monday. Although such clusters of earthquakes are fairly common in the area due to Yellowstone’s 10,000 geysers and hot springs, scientists say the recent quakes are far more intense than usual.
From LiveScience:
The largest of the [...]

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9 Examples of Incredible Tornado Photography

When it comes to storm photography, there’s not much that can beat tornadoes. They’re dramatic, frightening and somehow incredibly beautiful. The first three photos shown here were taken by ‘storm chasers’ Mike Hollingshead and Eric Nguyen, who head out the door any time a tornado warning is issued in order to experience the storms up close and [...]

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