The National 
 
Autonomous University 
 
of Mexico (UNAM) 
 
released a new report 
 
affirming that recent 
 
heavy snow storms 
 
seen throughout Europe, 
 
Mexico and 
 
the United States are 
 
linked to climate change.
 
 
Dr. Carlos Gay, 
 
coordinator of 
 
the university's 
 
Research Program 
 
on Climate Change, 
 
explained that heavier 
 
snowfall is consistent 
 
with the concept of 
 
global warming, because 
 
warmer temperatures 
 
cause more moisture to 
 
stay in the atmosphere, 
 
leading to increased 
 
precipitation. 
 
In a colder region 
 
with low temperatures, 
 
the condensed moisture 
 
becomes snow 
 
instead of rain. 
 
These extreme 
 
precipitation patterns 
 
are also expected 
 
to continue because 
 
of the redistribution of 
 
water that is occurring 
 
as global warming causes 
 
moisture to be lost 
 
from polar regions 
 
due to ice melt. 
 
This explanation 
 
of severe snowfall 
 
as seen in the northern 
 
hemisphere's 2010 
 
winter season has been 
 
supported by 
 
Dr. Athanasios Koutavas, 
 
a climate paleontologist 
 
at College of 
 
Staten Island 
 
in New York, USA, 
 
who stated, 
 
“Globally speaking, 
 
the hydrologic cycle 
 
will intensify, 
 
with more evaporation, 
 
more precipitation...
 
We are going to be 
 
getting more rain, and… 
 
the snow storms 
 
will deliver more 
 
snowfall than in the past. 
 
These are the general 
 
predictions, 
 
and this winter seems 
 
to speak to those trends.” 
 
Many thanks, 
 
Drs. Gay, Koutavas and 
 
colleagues for aiding 
 
our understanding of 
 
the disturbingly 
 
unusual weather patterns 
 
experienced in many 
 
regions of the globe. 
 
Through such insights, 
 
may we rapidly adopt 
 
lifestyle choices that 
 
create fast-acting solutions 
 
to climate change. 
 
 
In her efforts 
 
to uplift humanity, 
 
Supreme Master Ching Hai 
 
has often highlighted 
 
the underlying causes 
 
of these extreme 
 
global events, along with 
 
the urgent need for actions 
 
to halt them, 
 
as in an August 2009 
 
videoconference
 
in Thailand.
 
Supreme Master Ching Hai : What's more, 
 
we have more reports 
 
of unending drought, 
 
freezing weather, storms 
 
and animal species 
 
and even plant 
 
and tree species
 
slipping away 
 
faster and faster, because 
 
they are unable to withstand 
 
the global warming 
 
consequences. 
 
These are truly almost 
 
always the consequence 
 
of humans' violent actions. 
 
The number 1 action 
 
is meat eating. 
 
So, we are grateful 
 
we have a few more days 
 
to help more of our 
 
fellow world citizens 
 
to change 
 
to the benevolent diet 
 
to save our planet. 
 
But, these days 
 
are still numbered. 
 
We can't prolong forever. 
 
We can stop the disasters, 
 
make them go away 
 
for good, forever, 
 
make all the unfavorable 
 
situations, 
 
threatening weather 
 
go away if all of us
 
switch to the
 
organic vegan diet. 
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