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Perish The Thought: A Snowless World

If you are among those grumbling about having to shovel your sidewalk yet again, UW-Madison researcher Stephen Vavrus has some news for you. Without that snow, our planet would be in big trouble.
Vavrus is a climate modeling specialist at the Center for Climatic Research. With reports of melting Arctic ice becoming more frequent, Vavrus did what scientists do: He posed a question.