ice blocks

Every winter for the last few years there have been reports of blocks of ice mysteriously falling from the sky. Many of them are large enough to crash through the roofs of houses. People have accused airplanes of emptying chemical toilets while in flight (which they don’t do), but the truth is, this is yet another symptom of global warming.

Contrails from airplanes remain in the atmosphere longer these days, because the lower atmosphere is retaining more heat, making the upper atmosphere colder. Also, gigantic hailstones occur when cloud tops reach extreme heights, and hit the cold air above the stratosphere. Pieces of these icy clouds and contrails fall through the atmosphere, getting bigger and bigger as they fall.
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For the third time in a year, a mysterious chunk of yellow ice has landed in the yard of a house in Davenport, Iowa. Ernest McDonald says that more than one person has blamed this on “pee bombs” that fall when airplane toilets are flushed during cold weather. As the theory goes, the cold upper-level air causes the waste to freeze and drop to the ground, rather than dispersing into the atmosphere. However, it’s doubtful that airplane toilets are emptied in the air. Most likely, they are pumped out once the plane is on the ground, the same way that all chemical toilets are cleaned. At unknowncountry, we’ve discovered these ice blocks are a sign of global warming.
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