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Snow-causing bacteria

Posted February 29, 2008 8:50 AM

From Boing Boing:

A research team from LSU, Montana and France had found evidence that rain and snow are started by bacteria who are able to catalyse precipitation at lower temperatures than grit and dust. Dust and soot particles can serve as ice nuclei, but biological ice nuclei are capable of catalyzing freezing at much warmer temperatures. If present in clouds, biological ice nuclei may affect the processes that trigger precipitation.

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Re: Snow-causing bacteria

03/01/2008 4:20 AM

Perhaps laboratories are breeding these at present, to assist in Global Cooling.

How come we never found these bacteria before now?

Perhaps they are being spread by Chemtrails

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03/01/2008 8:36 AM

" ...evidence that rain and snow are started by bacteria who are able to catalyse precipitation at lower temperatures than grit and dust: Dust and soot particles can serve as ice nuclei, but biological ice nuclei are capable of catalyzing freezing at much warmer temperatures. "

Is it me, or has someone lost the plot ?

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03/01/2008 11:14 AM

I would suggest that the GW crowd needs to factor this finding into their hopelessly flawed models which dont seem to be able to predict weather more than 48 hrs out, let alone 50+ years.

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