bouchon, n. (masc.) - (French) word for traffic jam. La circulation est très mauvais. C'est un vrai bouchon.Un vrai bouchon (a real traffic jam) indeed. 420 km of jammed highways indeed:
Heavy snow paralyzed travel in the Paris region Wednesday, where officials suspended air traffic at one of Europe's busiest airports, closed several highways and shut down the Eiffel Tower.I don't understand this. Not only did the Climate Models not predict this, Al Gore was no where near Paris. C'est un mystère.
The resulting traffic jams set a new record. According to the National Center for Highway Information, snarled traffic lined 420 kilometers of roadways around the capital.
Officials at the Charles de Gaulle airport suspended air traffic for several hours in the afternoon, and began limited operations in the evening, according to Aeroports de Paris, the region's airport authority.
Hat tip: Rick, via email.
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240 km or 420 km? The quoted text says 420, but your link text says 240.
I blame it on your fingers being stiff from an early morning chill :)
WV: arita
arita, arita, andele, andele
Oops, fixed. Thanks, Merlin.
They freaked out over 15 centimeters of snow? What are they, French?
Jim
lmao..what are they, French?
it appears that the real danger is the gore effect has reached a self perpetuating critical mass.
hey dumbass, that is why it is called weather (conditions over a short period of time) and not climate (conditions over a long period of time)
how quickly the deniers try to move light away from the reality that 2010 was the warmest year on record (long period of time, get it?)
but to your ignorant point, as the oceans become warmer more moisture is evaporated into the atmosphere, that leads, inevitably, to heavier rains in the summer and more snow in the winter.
you and inhofe need t service each, and quick, to deal with this latent bloviation you have bottled up inside
Hey, Anonymous - I replied in a <a href="http://borepatch.blogspot.com/2010/12/climate-science-reasoned-discourse.html>new post</a>. I look forward to your comments there
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