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Many climate change skeptics will use the recent East Coast blizzard as an opportunity to say global warming isn't happening, but as this article shows, global warming likely made the storm bigger. Warmer air holds more moisture than colder air, allowing for more precipitation (hence the upper Midwest saying, "it's too cold to snow!"). Warming temperatures could also lead to more "lake effect" snow in areas where this occurs. When temperatures are low, large lakes like the Great Lakes freeze over and their water isn't available to the atmosphere. But when temperatures are warmer and lakes don't freeze over, that water is available to be picked up by the atmosphere and then dropped over land as snow. Closer to home, protesters gathered outside two Enbridge offices in Superior, WI yesterday to speak out against the company's plans to expand and build pipelines across Wisconsin and Minnesota. In response, Enbridge released a statement saying that "This opposition to Enbridge projects is the vocal minority. And the information they offer is largely false. The fact is that support for Enbridge projects continues to grow as people understand the benefits of moving oil by pipeline." Wow - in the sports world, I think this is what they would call "bulletin-board material"! Statements like this should motivate more of us to speak up and show Enbridge (and company's like them) that these protestors are NOT a minority!