Word: hotter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plant official said in a 1948 memo that "one of these samples" taken in Richland "was at least 10 times hotter than average...
...this summer, he said, has been much closer to the norm. Six days in 1989 have been hotter than 90 degrees, compared to 13 at this time in 1988. On average, a total of 12 days break the 90-degree mark each year, so this summer is right on schedule...
...intense solar observations should provide clues to many of the still unanswered or only partly resolved questions about the sun: Does the solar cycle affect terrestrial weather? What internal mechanisms control the cycle? Is the sun growing cooler? Hotter? Is there a basic flaw in the current theory about the fusion process that powers the solar furnace...
...That's what leaders are for, to take the heat," drawled House Speaker Jim Wright, sporting his trademark country-boy grin. It has seldom been hotter than it has been since plans for a 51% pay hike for top Government officials, including members of Congress, touched off a political fire storm...
...Space Studies and one of the most prominent proponents of the greenhouse theory, was not at all swayed by the new study. "Even in a warming world," he says, "you'd still expect on a statistical basis to see local variation -- one region cooler than the average, another hotter. If you look at an area as small as the U.S., then natural variability is very large. But % it's the global average that is important." While other climate experts are slower to make concrete predictions, Hansen's studies of global temperatures suggest that the warming trend has already begun...