Word: icing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other end of the ice, Wisconsin freshman goaltender Chanda Gunn was standing on her head. Harvard failed to score in the first two periods as Gunn made 27 saves, almost single-handedly keeping her team in the game...
Botterill played a part in all three Harvard goals. First she set up Shewchuk for an easy score, then she fed Francisco, who beat the Badgers down the ice. Botterill rounded out the scoring herself, with help from Francisco and junior defenseman Jamie Notman...
...seems obvious that trapping more of the sun's heat will make the planet hotter. But what seems obvious isn't always true. According to some respected scientists, there's a chance that global warming could plunge us into, of all things, an ice...
...with global warming, melting ice from Greenland and the Arctic Ocean could pump fresh water into the North Atlantic; so could the increased rainfall predicted for northern latitudes in a warmer world. Result: the Gulf Stream's water wouldn't get saltier after all and wouldn't sink so easily. Without adequate resupply, the southerly underwater current would stop, and the Gulf Stream would in turn be shut...
Worst of all, the experts believe, such changes could come on with astonishing speed--perhaps within a decade or less. And while we might have a great deal of trouble adjusting to a climate that gets 2[degrees]C (4[degrees]F) warmer over the next century, an ice age by midcentury would be unimaginably devastating. The lingering uncertainty about whether our relentless production of greenhouse gases will keep heating our planet or ultimately cool it suggests that we should make a better effort to leave the earth's thermostat alone...