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...returns; but a mild winter or scorching summer could melt profits and principal. On another front, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange started trading weather futures in September. Along with pork bellies, plungers can now bet on the average monthly temperature in New York City, Atlanta, Chicago and Cincinnati. The forecast for this winter: La Nina is out; Joe Average...
...most authoritative predictions about future warming come from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a worldwide consortium of more than 2,000 climate scientists. The current forecast is that by 2100 the earth's temperature will go up 1[degree] to 3.5[degrees]C (2[degrees] to 7[degrees]F), with the best guess being an increase of 2[degrees]C (4[degrees...
Windy day. The forecast said 15-25 mph with gusts up to 50. We stayed indoors for practice. The workout: CII ergometer6K for those who hadn't done it yet, and 50 minutes steady-state for everyone else. I was planning to do an hour but my back started to hurt and I stopped after 53 minutes and did the weight circuit. I wanted to go down this morning but my back was sore after yesterday's work and a poor night's sleep so I stayed in bed; that first step out of bed is the hardest...
...please put heavy emphasis on the words could and almost. A gathering of TIME's Board of Economists, which met in San Francisco and was largely composed of specialists in the workings of nearby Silicon Valley, left a clear message: members were not at all prepared to forecast for the country an automatic or painless ascent into an Internet nirvana...
...midnight approached, and the rope broke for the third time, it increasingly became clear the Coast Guard would be needed. The clear forecast of the afternoon and early evening had turned into rough seas, and swells measured nearly 15 feet...