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...have an impact on another important cycle, known as the North Atlantic or Arctic Oscillation. In this case it's not the warming these gases create in the lower atmosphere that is key, but the cooling they cause in the stratosphere, where molecules of carbon dioxide and the like emit heat to space rather than trapping it in the upper atmosphere. This stratospheric cooling, Wallace and others speculate, may have biased prevailing wind patterns in ways that favor a wintertime influx of mild marine air into Northern--as opposed to Southern--Europe...
...living near heavily traveled streets--where 20,000 or more vehicles pass daily--may have a sixfold-increased risk of developing childhood cancers such as leukemia. (Previously, the electromagnetic fields near electric-power wires were similarly blamed.) Researchers point the finger at benzene and other possible carcinogens that vehicles emit--and kids inhale. --By Janice M. Horowitz...
...earthers as the Great Nebula in Orion (see my essay "Who Will Destroy Our Civilization and Lay Waste to Life on Earth as We Know It in the Next Century?" in the next Visions issue). If the indicators are correct, the mother ship of these Ecstatic Beings will emit a cloud of radioactive gas that blankets the planet, wiping out all life for a period of 10,000 years. Then and only then shall comic reconstruction begin...
...countryside--from just one household dumps the same amount of dioxins, furans and other chlorine-containing pollutants into the air as the burning of trash by a state-of-the-art municipal waste incinerator serving tens of thousands of homes. Just about all types of garbage--paper, plastics, food--emit the toxic pollutants. And toxic they are; even tiny amounts of dioxins and related burning by-products may increase cancer risk...
...began to unlock the mysteries of the atom: Max Planck launched quantum physics by discovering that atoms emit bursts of radiation in packets. Also the mysteries of the mind: Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams that year. Marconi was preparing to send radio signals across the Atlantic, the Wright Brothers went to Kitty Hawk to work on their gliders, and an unpromising student named Albert Einstein finally graduated, after some difficulty, from college that year. So much for the boneheaded prediction made the year before by Charles Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office: "Everything that can be invented...