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...data as on improvements in the complex computer models that climatologists use to test their theories. Unlike chemists or molecular biologists, climate experts have no way to do lab experiments on their specialty. So they simulate them on supercomputers and look at what happens when human-generated gases--carbon dioxide from industry and auto exhaust, methane from agriculture, chlorofluorocarbons from leaky refrigerators and spray cans--are pumped into the models' virtual atmospheres...
...Siberian eruptions could have killed off plant and animal life in half a dozen different ways. An atmospheric mist of sulfur dioxide, for example, could have stoked lethal storms of acid rain. Carbon dioxide, injected into the atmosphere by erupting volcanoes, could have trapped solar heat, disrupting climate through global warming. Even the physical force exerted by the rising plume of molten magma could have contributed to the extinction by uplifting a substantial section of the earth's crust. Since temperatures fall with elevation, says Renne, snow and ice would have quickly accumulated, wrecking ecosystems at higher elevations and contributing...
...ever since a footnote: the second city to be hit by an atomic bomb. Fat Man exploded 1650 ft. above the city of some 240,000 people on the western coast of Kyushu at 11:02 on the morning of Aug. 9. In many ways, the event was a carbon copy of the horrors of Hiroshima: flash, heat, blast, radiation; permanent shadows cast by bombshine; thirsty, mortally burned people, emerging from the smoke and dust, trailing strips of their skin behind them. Some in Nagasaki had been afraid that their city would be attacked by the new weapon. Hideo Matsuno...
This is part of a lesson for two weeks from now, the "firefighter" lesson, where the kids will learn about putting out candles with carbon dioxide and making a gas fill up a balloon...
...knowing he likes to eat, General Rosso Josa Serrano Cadena, chief of the Colombian National Police, ordered his men to stake out several of the good restaurants in the northern part of the city. Last Tuesday night Santacruz and three business associates dropped by a steakhouse called Carbon de Palo...