Wednesday February 14, 2007

Tokyo sets snowless record

peakoil.com -> news.yahoo.com :

Tokyo has set a record for its longest snowless winter amid growing worldwide concerns about global warming, according to meteorologists. The metropolitan area of the capital has not had snow this season, making it the longest snowless winter since statistics were first kept in 1876, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The previous record was set in 1960 when the season's first snowfall was observed on February 10.

Earlier this month a UN report blamed human activities for global warming and predicted a rise in typhoons, droughts and other natural disasters. The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that temperatures could rise by between 1.1 and 6.4 degrees Celsius by 2100.

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