In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined!
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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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Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
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Circumhorizontal arcs (loosely known as fire rainbows) are the rarest of all naturally occurring atmospheric phenomena.
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Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.
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Rain contains vitamin B12.
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The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.
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