Word: melts
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...committee's prediction that the greenhouse effect could have "diverse consequences for human society" meanwhile is based on a newfound respect for the potentially devastating impact of the greenhouse effect. It has long been suspected that increasing carbon dioxide levels would melt the polse ice caps leading to massive costial flooding and seriously disruption agricultural production, but recent studies have turned a possibility into a probability. The greenhouse effect has already caused glacier movements in the Canadian Arctic and Antarctica. Still, more foreboding is that recent studies of the Ice Age 40,000 years ago suggest that the last glacier...
Professionally, Bok is known--indeed criticized in some circles-for his reserve and caution, characteristics that seem to melt over into the way he deals with inquiries about his personal life. His close friend say it is for a very good reason: Bok, they say, is an intensely private person...
Unseasonably warm weather, prompted by the heightened greenhouse effect underway, persists into the new year. The polar ice caps begin to melt, flooding Canada and parts of downtown Cambridge. Harvard Facilities Maintenance men work 'round the clock to keep paths to the libraries and Mem Hall passable. Reading Period, cancerlike, festers into exam period. Students refuse to take exams for the first three days until their biological clocks have completed the full two-week cycle...
Come spring, these icebergs would not melt completely. The warm, watery environment in which life evolved would not have existed...
...nature, when masses of ice begin to melt, then fissure, they can make a sort of thunder, a great bass popping that echoes for miles. It is a startling noise. In Washington and Moscow last week there was a similarly surprising noise that sounded, just maybe, like the first tremors of a thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations. It came Thanksgiving Day, with officials in each country reading identical statements to reporters. At the White House, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane delivered the tidings deadpan. "The United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to enter into new negotiations," he reported...