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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...degree]C (2[degrees]F) warmer than it is now. This time period is regarded as one of the most benign weather regimes in history. To find temperature swings at the upper end, you have to go back 10,000 years, to when the earth was exiting the last Ice Age. Temperatures during the Ice Age were 5[degrees]C (10[degrees]F) cooler than they are now, and there was a series of incidents during which global temperatures changed as much as 10[degrees]F in a matter of decades. If that were to happen now, expanding oceans might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Hot Will It Get? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Bent like an arthritic thumb high above the antarctic ice cap, the mountain's uppermost point was so small and precarious that it could accommodate only one person at a time. So I shivered on a ledge in the subzero breeze and waited for my partners, first Alex and then Conrad, to climb the final 20 ft. to the summit. We'd been on the move for 14 hours. My back hurt, and I had lost all feeling in my toes. But as my eyes wandered across the frozen vastness of Queen Maud Land, a sense of profound contentment radiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will There Be Any Wilderness Left? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...cared, that it existed; fewer still had actually laid eyes on the peak. Alex, Conrad and I were the first who had gone to the trouble to climb it, and the view from the top was ample reward. Countless other rock towers, equally strange and beautiful, rise from the ice in all directions, resembling gargantuan sailboats plying a chalk-white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will There Be Any Wilderness Left? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...transition even for committed carnivores. That's why TIME chose him to prepare a dinner for 2025 that would be good for the body--and the planet. In his tasty menu, liver pate gives way to lentil pate, steak is replaced by tofu cutlet and a banana-and-ice-cream dessert is made with rice milk instead of cow's milk. Lanza's critter-free meal has less than half the calories of a meat-heavy dinner and a third of the total fat. And lest you think meat-free eating means protein-free eating, the percentage of calories from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's For Dinner? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Dessert SUNDAE OF RICE "ICE CREAM," SLICED BANANAS AND CARAMELIZED CANE SUGAR

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's For Dinner? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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