Word: planet
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...than it actually is. The reason is that the computer models had been overlooking an important factor affecting global temperatures: aerosols, the tiny droplets of chemicals like sulfur dioxide that are produced along with CO2 when fossil fuels are burned in cars and power plants. Aerosols actually cool the planet by blocking sunlight and mask the effects of global warming. Says Tom Wigley, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a member of the international panel: "We were looking for the needle in the wrong haystack...
...conversation between Mizrahi and Cindy Crawford captures their wonder at the sheer brightness of the Shea stadium lights. It's as if the two of them have become hothous, plants who have trouble understanding the sunlight. And no wonder. They rush about from one fitting to another on a planet of six-foot women and bottomless champagne flutes...
Finally, transcending mere economic stupidity, Congress cut funds to organizations like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which investigates environmental concerns such as global warming and ozone depletion. And NASA's loss of $716 million will jeopardize the Mission to Planet Earth program, which uses satellites to track changes in the planet's ecosystems. I suppose Congress' reasoning is that unforeseen environmental catastrophes will take our minds off the national debt...
Hussein Kamel: How can you use them while you are fighting the whole planet? Any mistake of using these unconventional weapons will make the major powers use nuclear weapons, which means Iraq will be exterminated...
Ancient volcanoes begin spewing smoke and lava across the plains of Siberia and don't stop for a million years. The sky all around the earth becomes dusty and foul. Eventually the planet is rendered so wretchedly uninhabitable that life itself is nearly snuffed...