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That is one reason the latest IPCC predictions for temperature increase are higher than they were five years ago. Back in the mid-1990s, climate models didn't include the effects of the El Chichon and Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruptions, which threw enough dust into the air to block out some sunlight and slow down the rate of warming. That effect has dissipated, and the heating should start to accelerate. Moreover, the IPCC noted, many countries have begun to reduce their emissions of sulfur dioxide in order to fight acid rain. But sulfur dioxide particles, too, reflect sunlight; without this...
...That is one reason the latest IPCC predictions for temperature increase are higher than they were five years ago. Back in the mid-1990s, climate models didn't include the effects of the El Chichon and Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruptions, which threw enough dust into the air to block out some sunlight and slow down the rate of warming. That effect has dissipated, and the heating should start to accelerate. Moreover, the IPCC noted, many countries have begun to reduce their emissions of sulfur dioxide in order to fight acid rain. But sulfur dioxide particles, too, reflect sunlight; without this...
...could. Analysts around Asia are watching to see if Heinecke, the man who built Pizza Hut into the stomach-share king of the nascent Thai pizza market, can mount an Oedipal (and edible) challenge to his former employer with his new enterprise. They've doubted him before. In 1980, when the young American expatriate opened the region's first Pizza Hut in the Thai beach town of Pattaya, even his friends were sure he would fail. Thais don't eat cheese. Thais don't eat bread. And so Thais certainly won't eat pizza, they reasoned. More than 100 pizza...
...didn't match up with his tax cut, and of course they had a solution: Hand out $60 billion this year, right now, and put the $1.6 trillion back on the negotiating table for May. (Translation: Wait for the cry for immediate economic stimulus to die down, and re-mount the attack on the old grounds of fiscal risk and class inequity...
...responding strongly, one of the settlers will turn around and pull a Baruch Goldstein, a terrorist action against Palestinians that would create a lot more of an unpredictable and dangerous situation than Sharon?s bombing. Another option Sharon is weighing is whether to allow Jews back onto the Temple Mount for the first time since the intifadah. Some security advisers are saying this will help defuse settler anger; others are saying it will further inflame the Palestinians. And even many Israelis who supported the peace process and opposed Sharon support the strikes on Arafat's Force 17, feeling that they...