- World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss
a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard
dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.
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- "Temperatures will stay low at least the next three
days," Henning Gisseloe, an official at Denmark's Meteorological Institute,
said today by telephone, forecasting more snow in coming days. "There's
a good chance of a white Christmas."
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- Delegates from 193 countries have been in Copenhagen
since Dec. 7 to discuss how to fund global greenhouse gas emission cuts.
U.S. President Barack Obama will arrive before the summit is scheduled
to end tomorrow.
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- Denmark has a maritime climate and milder winters than
its Scandinavian neighbors. It hasn't had a white Christmas for 14 years,
under the DMI's definition, and only had seven last century. Temperatures
today fell as low as minus 4 Celsius (25 Fahrenheit).
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- DMI defines a white Christmas as 90 percent of the country
being covered by at least 2 centimeters of snow on the afternoon of Dec.
24.
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- To contact the reporter on this story: Christian Wienberg
in Copenhagen at cwienberg@bloomberg.net
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