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...Atmospheric Administration point out that squirrels are hoarding nuts mostly because nuts are more plentiful. For its forecasts, the NOAA turns to an array of computers, and they indicate-well, guess what? The "chances are 14 to 1 that this winter will be colder than that of 1973." One meteorologist with the National Weather Service, his tongue wrapped warmly in his cheek, was less confident: "I talk to the squirrels in my backyard every morning, and they don't know any more about the weather than...
Some new approaches promise help. As part of a multinational scientific program called NORPAX (North Pacific Experiment), Meteorologist Jerome Namias of Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been investigating unexplained links between ocean temperatures and weather. He has found, for instance, that the formation of hot and cold patches in specific parts of the Pacific appears to be followed by colder-than-normal winters in the Eastern U.S. and warmer-than-normal winters in the West. If enough patterns of that kind can be found, says Namias, they could tip off long-range trends...
Warmer and Warmer. What would happen if man ever interfered drastically with this process? Meteorologist Francis K. Davis, who is dean of Drexel University's College of Science in Philadelphia, warns of some frightening consequences. Unable to shake off their heat, he says, the tropics might become warmer and warmer. Simultaneously, the polar regions would slowly become colder. Eventually, both areas would expand, relentlessly shrinking the thickly populated temperate zones between them...
Test Center. This dream city is the brainchild of freewheeling Scientist Athelstan Spilhaus, an oceanographer, physicist and meteorologist. In the eight years since he first got the idea, MXC has drawn support from Twin Cities business leaders, the federal and state governments, and top thinkers like R. Buckminster Fuller, Economist Walter Heller and Urbanologist Harvey Perloff. Their combined efforts are aimed at starting construction...
...hobo markings, however. Some, like the dagger, have multiple meanings. In publishing, the dagger signals a footnote; in biology, it means "obscure species" or "incorrect citation," and in medicine, it symbolizes death. To a farmer, a dot within a semicircle signifies a drinking trough, while to a meteorologist, it means rain that does not reach the earth...