Word: hotter
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What do we talk about when we talk about global warming? It'll get hotter, that's a safe bet; polar ice caps will be melting, and wildlife that can't adapt to warmer temperatures could be on the way out. But what does it really mean for the health of us, the human race? It's a question that remains surprisingly difficult to answer - research into climate change's impacts on human health have lagged behind other areas of climate science. But what we do know has scientists and doctors increasingly worried - a rising risk of death from heat...
...will do to us and our diseases - and few scientists know more about the topic than Patz, a member of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (Hear Patz talk about global warming and health on this week's Greencast.) As temperatures increase, and hotter, drier summers become the norm in regions that were once temperate, powerful heat waves - like the one in Europe in 2003, which killed an estimated 35,000 people - will take a toll. At the same time, climate models suggest that rain could become less frequent overall but more intense when...
...shortage, takes a swing at “Those bastards up in Washington / Afraid of popping that greed vein.” She also draws our attention to the problem of climate change—the year is 2017 and, with the “sun… growing hotter,” London is suffering “sweltering heat.” There’s no question that Crow has been reading her World Book—in the space of the first five tracks we’re taken on a travelogue that drops...
...Ancient Eight in one weekend. “Certainly we’re hopeful that getting home this weekend will give us an opportunity to play better,” Amaker said. “And we’ll see if we can have one of the hotter teams in the country [Cornell] come in here and see if we can do a decent job, which we’ve done in the past right here...
...uncommon to see a man wearing a T-shirt boasting "World's Best Grandma," or a young girl wearing a shirt lamenting "Stripping ruined my life." I've seen an old woman in "I Love AC/DC," an indigenous grandmother with a shirt bragging, "My boyfriend is hotter than yours," and another disclosing that "My boyfriend is out of town...