In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!
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Temperatures have been cooling since 2002, even as carbon dioxide has continued to rise.
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Carbon dioxide is a trace gas and by itself will produce little warming. Also, as CO2 increases, the incremental warming is less, as the effect is logarithmic so the more CO2, the less warming it produces.
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There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
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The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid!
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The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
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It snows more in the Grand Canyon than it does in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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