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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Northern Europe's warm winter stresses some

Icebreakers sit idle in ports. Insects crawl out of forest hideouts. Daffodils sprout up from green lawns.
Winter ended before it started in Europe's north, where record-high temperatures have people wondering whether it's a fluke or an ominous sign of a warming world.
"It's the warmest winter ever" recorded, said John Ekwall of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute...

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