Klima
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- Earth's biggest desert is made of ice.
Desert means dry, not hot: deserts receive less than 250 mm of precipitation a year. Antarctica, about 14 million km² …
- In 1816 it snowed in June – because of a volcano in Indonesia.
In April 1815 Mount Tambora on Sumbawa erupted, the most powerful documented eruption in history. Its sulphur cloud …
- The hottest planet is not the one closest to the Sun.
Mercury orbits nearest the Sun, yet Venus is hotter: 464 °C on average at the surface, even though it receives only a …
- Weather is mood, climate is personality.
Weather is what happens today: rain, 12 degrees, wind from the west. Climate is the statistics of that, usually …
- Why the city is several degrees warmer at night.
Asphalt, concrete and roofs store solar heat during the day and release it at night. Trees that cool by evaporation are …
- Without the greenhouse effect, Earth would be an ice ball.
Sunlight warms the ground, which sends the energy back as infrared radiation. Water vapor, CO₂ and methane let sunlight …
- You are living in the middle of an ice age.
Geologically, an ice age begins whenever permanent ice sheets exist at the poles. The current one, the Quaternary …