Word: carbonization
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...invitation said casual, although the occasion was anything but: dinner at the media moguls' summit, an annual gathering at which financier Herb Allen played host at his Sun Valley digs. Nobuyuki Idei was late and tired, and since he was still wearing a suit, he looked like the carbon-copy Japanese manager that Hollywood had taken to the cleaners in recent years. So the Sony Corp. president doffed his jacket and donned a Men in Black T shirt for his big entrance. "Just a little marketing gimmick," jokes Idei. "But the guests congratulated us." Idei got hoots of approval...
...definite, it is entirely, recklessly speculative. But very satisfying to his eco-apocalyptic politics. After all, if El Nino is the cause of a biblical plague of calamitous weather, and if global warming is the cause of El Nino, then you have a most beautiful link: human sin--burning carbon and, more generally, prideful exploitation of the planet for man's pleasure and greater glory--makes hail and floods and fire and brimstone fall upon us from heaven. Angry skies are no mere Act of God; they are provoked by man. It is a theology the Aztecs and the Hittites...
...little too far. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the champion of assisted suicide who has helped anywhere between 50 and 100 terminally ill patients die, appears to have helped a woman kill herself in a church. The 74-year-old Nadia Foldes of New York, an Eastern Orthodox Christian, inhaled carbon dioxide late Thursday at a Catholic church somewhere in Detroit...
...Department of Energy study released last week showed that emissions jumped 3.4% in 1996 alone. At the same time, evidence of global warming's dangers has continued to mount. When politicians started talking seriously about the problem in the late 1980s, the relationship between the proliferation of carbon dioxide and a warming world was largely theoretical. Scientists knew that CO2 and other gases trap the sun's energy; in fact, without any CO2 at all in the atmosphere, the planet would be frozen solid. The notion that extra, human-generated CO2 might drive temperatures too far the other...
...atmosphere of a low-decibel boiler room fell silent. Huddling together in the main module, Tsibliyev, Lazutkin and Foale spent a few serene hours watching Earth roll silently by. All that disturbed their reverie was the periodic waving of flight plans about in order to fan away their exhaled carbon dioxide, which the ship's ventilators could no longer remove...