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It is inadvisable to draw conclusions about long-term trends from short-term observations. Still, on issues related to climate, the press does it all the time. All it takes is one heat wave in Europe, and the headlines are filled with scare stories about the coming end of the world. But put together a year's worth of cold weather anomalies, and the silence is deafening.
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The winter of 2007-2008 is one of those anomalies, all over the globe. According to the Washington Times, 2007 was noteworthy for the number of "record low temperatures ... being set all over the world." In Buenos Aires, the Times recounts, "snow fell for the first time since the year 1918. In Peru, 200 people died from the cold," and "the Peruvian government ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Winter of discontent.(Inside Track)(Brief article)