Word: buildups
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...reputable scientist will say that what we are experiencing now is the early effects of global warming -- even if a few privately suspect it to be so. The theory that the buildup of CO2, methane and other heat-trapping gases can raise global temperatures -- like the glass in the walls of a greenhouse -- is well established, but no one knows how much warming will occur or how soon. While early computer models suggested that average global temperatures could jump 3 degreesF to 9 degreesF by the middle of the next century, recent studies have cast doubt on those estimates. Even...
What makes these influences so hard to sort out is that they interact in complex ways. Some scientists think that any global heating will be eased by the buildup of clouds, which tend to block sunlight. Indeed, a recent study showed an increase in nightly minimum temperatures over the past decade but little increase in daily maximums -- precisely what you would expect if clouds were cooling the earth by day (by blocking sunlight) and warming the earth at night (by trapping heat...
What is new about today's weather is that, for the first time, some of the factors that help shape it may be man-made. Experts say it may be decades before we are certain what effect the buildup of greenhouse gases or the depletion of the ozone layer has had on the global climate. Last week's flooding and heat wave served as a warning that if we wait for the weathermen to tell us what's wrong with the weather, it may be too late to do anything about...
Another example of this phenomena is "Dirty Day," dedicated to poet, writer and barfly Charles Bukowski. Bono assumes an eerie falsetto, with a frantic buildup of the Edge's guitar for the first part of the song. Yet the song inexplicably swoops from this to slow melancholy, and then to a hopeful throbbing. It plumbs the emotional heights and depths, yet this just makes it all the more difficult to listen...
Clinton's confident morning-after quarterbacking masked the fact that the raid was an effort to bolster a seriously flagging U.N. effort. The U.S., when it dominated the Somalia operation, had done little to squelch the warlords permanently, and the U.N.'s subsequent buildup had proceeded slowly. A promised contingent of 7,000 troops, including 4,000 from India, never arrived. As the weeks gave way to months, says Robert Oakley, the U.S. special envoy during the opening phases of Operation Restore Hope, "we kept telling Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali we were leaving, but he wouldn't take it seriously...