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...emerged from Congress reflects the power of interests working against the legislation. He said that there is a “powerful set of arguments” for businesses to want to prevent climate change, noting that major insurance companies could face significant losses if rising ocean levels and severe storms increasingly threaten Florida and the Gulf Coast. Once businesses support climate change legislation, he said, it will be much easier to enact mandatory carbon dioxide caps. “It legitimizes this in many ways for the [political] right, who wait for a green light from the business community...
...equips her fishy characters with wheelies, which enable them, when they rock back on their heels, to glide across the stage with an ease that nicely approximates aquatic movement. And for the couple of times when characters actually do float - swimming up to the surface or sinking to the ocean floor - the effort is largely hidden, the effect breathtaking...
...Since morning there's been no business," complains Aden, who is covered in sand as he brushes the tan hairs of his camel. Behind him stretches a nearly empty beach bordered by a sparkling aqua-blue ocean. Aden previously earned around $60 a day; he says that number is now down to nearly zero...
...world was much hotter then (which is why a post-comet cold snap would have been pretty tough on the dinosaurs). During a period called the Turonian, about 90 million years ago, things got especially toasty: In some places, during what's often called the "super-greenhouse" years, the ocean's surface temperature approached 100 degrees F, and alligators thrived in the Arctic...
What researchers found was a stretch of a few hundred thousand years during which foraminifera shells were unusually rich in oxygen-18, suggesting the presence of glaciers. Though changes in ocean temperature can also alter the oxygen balance, sea-bottom temperatures don't vary much no matter what's happening up top, yet the bottom-dwelling foraminifera still exhibited an oxygen imbalance, implying that the ice effect was more likely. Nobody can explain how you can have glaciers in a superhot world. But then, nobody can really explain how the world got quite that hot in the first place...