Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...processing plants. If those devices are set off, the subsequent conflagration could create "a nuclear-winter-like situation," asserts Paul Crutzen, director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. Jordanian experts say the wells could burn 10 million bbl. of oil a day, releasing a vast cloud of black smoke into the stratosphere. Such a cloud has the potential to screen sunlight, reduce temperatures and damage crops throughout the northern hemisphere. Not all experts agree with the grim forecasts, contending that Kuwaiti oil fields are too far apart to combine into one conflagration. If only some wells blow...
Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Laurence I. Barrett, Ann Blackman, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Jerome Cramer, Michael Duffy, Glenn Garelik, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, Richard Hornik, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Michael Riley, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Joelle Attinger, Carl Bernstein, Martha Smilgis, Naushad S. Mehta Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: S.C. Gwynne Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...
...cloud of dust that moved furiously toward Basa's three-vehicle convoy telegraphed the worst news possible. An Iraqi patrol -- two armed jeeps -- was converging on Basa's position. As planned in advance, Basa quickly shifted his Nissan out of four-wheel drive. In a moment, he was stuck in the loose sand. In another, he was in custody. But Basa's confederates got away, their Chevy Blazers roaring off for Kuwait City. By nightfall they would resupply the Kuwaiti resistance with 90 AK-47 assault rifles, 17 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 5,000 rounds of ammunition...
...views the earth as a single organism with various feedback mechanisms to maintain conditions suitable for life. In SimEarth this means that as the heat from the sun increases 25%, as it has during the past few billion years, changes will automatically occur in factors like the rate of cloud formation to keep the surface temperature relatively stable. The feedback loops appear most valuable when they are turned off, as they were when I played in the "hard game" mode. Suddenly, rather than "playing" God, I found myself working overtime to keep my oceans from boiling away, my jungles from...
Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Laurence I. Barrett, Ann Blackman, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Jerome Cramer, Michael Duffy, Glenn Garelik, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, Richard Hornik, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Michael Riley, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Joelle Attinger, Richard Behar, Carl Bernstein, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, ; Priscilla Painton, Martha Smilgis, Naushad S. Mehta Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: S.C. Gwynne Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James...