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POPSAll planets experience climate change All planets experience climate change. Nasa scientists recorded Mars warming by 0.5C since the 1970s, which is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over the same period. In the Red Planet's case, strong winds are thought to have stirred up giant dust storms, trapping heat and raising Mars' temperature.
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POPSNIWA Unable To Justify Official Temperature Record "The difference between these two official records is a series of undisclosed NIWA-created ‘adjustments’. “Late last year our coalition published a paper entitled ‘Are We Feeling Warmer Yet?’ and asked NIWA to disclose the schedule detailing the dates and reasons for the adjustments. The expressed purpose of NZCSC was to replicate the calculations, in the best traditions of peer-reviewed science. “When NIWA did not respond, Hon Rodney Hide asked Oral and Written Questions in Parliament, and attended a meeting with NIWA scientists. All to no avail, and the schedule of adjustments remained a secret. We now know why NIWA was being so evasive - the requested schedule did not exist.
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POPSCats of Blockaded Leningrad "The family had cat Maksim and a parrot which was called Jack. Almost every day, their uncle that lived together with them wanted to make a meal ofthe cat and each time the rest of the family went out they always locked the cat into the storeroom. As time passed by, the cat began growing malnourished and sicky because of poor food. Once, Maksim managed to jump onto the cupboard and opened the cage where the parrot Jack lived in. Family thought thatthe cat would eat Jack, but instead of doing so two pets huddled up to one another for warmth and fell asleep. After that, the uncle didn’t try to make anything bad tothe cat. Soon after the parrot died but Maksim survived and happened to be one of the few cats that lived through the blockade. Maksim died in 1957. Of old age"
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POPSEnglish You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down, And in which you fill in a form By filling it out And a bell is only heard once it goes! English was invented by people, not computers, And it reflects the creativity of the human race (Which of course isn’t a race at all.) That is why: When the stars are out they are visible, But when the lights are out they are invisible. And why it is that when I wind up my watch It starts, But when I wind up this poem It ends. credits to http://www.c4vct.com/kym/humor/esl.htm
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POPSPileus Clouds Pileus clouds. “Pileus caps are made of ice crystals high in the troposphere. They form as a slab of air is shoved upward, in the shape of a dome or cap, just above a rapidly rising convective tower. Moisture in the dome condenses directly into an ice fog as the air rises and cools, forming the pileus. Next, the convection shoots right through the pileus layer. The lifted layer above the convective tower can’t be too dry (must have high humidity), or the pileus cap won’t develop.”
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