Word: fahrenheit
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...greenhouse effect are expected to heat not just the air but also the surface of the oceans, and it is the thermal energy of that water that fuels typhoons and hurricanes. As a rule of thumb, according to Emanuel, wind speeds increase 5 m.p.h. for every additional degree Fahrenheit of water temperature. By that formula, sustained winds in future hurricanes could conceivably top 200 m.p.h...
...customary with science, the experts are loath to jump to conclusions until all the data is in and all the causes and effects are connected. Scientists almost universally agree that the earth has warmed by about one degree Fahrenheit in this century. Some attribute that to the so-called greenhouse effect, caused by man-made gases that trap the sun's heat on the earth's surface, raising water and air temperatures. Some believe that the warming may be linked to the natural hot and cold cycles that have affected the earth since prehistory, causing, for instance, the ice ages...
...Average world surface temperature in 1998, in degrees Fahrenheit; the warmest on record...
Because it draws from deeper reservoirs, thenew water supply is also slightly colder, Nicolorosaid. Cambridge's water supply is about 78 degreesFahrenheit, but the MWRA water runs at about 70 to72 degrees Fahrenheit, he said...
That's all right, because the heavily air conditioned building--it feels to be about 60 degrees Fahrenheit--is being preserved for the fall semester, when its doors will officially open to undergraduates...