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by alkonaut 3832 days ago
That is a huge problem, and it doesn't have any nice solutions. Dumping it in a lake should be banned of course, but keeping it in gigantic on-ground piles of dirty snow is only slightly better as it will quickly ruin a huge part of parkland somewhere in the central city (can't drive it very far). Making a few large dumping grounds with groundwater protection would be great, but nimby+cost likely makes it difficult.

judging by this years' winter weather, global warming might solve this.
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ryanlol 3831 days ago
Over here in .fi we just have a landfill for it.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/snowbout/12810955964

http://yle.fi/uutiset/helsinki_battles_with_snow_that_just_w...

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mfisher87 3832 days ago
It is an El Nino year if I'm not mistaken, so the unusually warm Winter is expected in many areas.

Not to say I think climate change isn't a problem, but I don't think it's responsible for the current weather to the degree others seem to think. Although it would be nice to point to the current weather and say "living proof!", I think it's probably not correct.

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