Word: planeteers
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Floods. Droughts. Hurricanes. Twisters. Are all the bizarre weather extremes we've been having lately normal fluctuations in the planet's atmospheric systems? Or are they a precursor of the kind of climactic upheavals that can be expected from the global warming caused by the continued buildup of CO2 and the other so-called greenhouse gases? Scientists are still not sure. But one of the effects of the unusual stretch of weather over the past 15 years has been to alert researchers to a new and perhaps even more immediate threat of the warming trend: the rapid spread of disease...
...epidemiologist with the Harvard School of Public Health, notes that a temperature rise of 4 [degrees] F would more than double mosquito metabolism, forcing them to feed more often. A 4 [degrees] F rise in global temperatures could also expand malaria's domain from 42% to 60% of the planet. When temperatures rise above 104 [degrees] F, mosquitoes begin to die off--but at those temperatures, so do people and the crops on which they live...
...your article "A Shot Across Earth's Bow" [SPACE, June 3], you noted that our planet narrowly escaped a devastating collision with a mountain-size asteroid, but you didn't portray the destruction in terms most people can comprehend. Two-thirds of the large asteroids heading toward Earth would strike oceans, not land. Had asteroid 1996JA1 collided with any of our oceans, a tidal wave of Noachian-flood proportions would have deluged every province of the planet. The survivors, should there have been any, wouldn't know what had happened. Perhaps they would refer to an act of God that...
...kind of rapid-fire code, a political shorthand developed during a 17-year partnership. One of the two strategists happens to be the President of the U.S. The other, a banty, cocksure New Yorker named Dick Morris, is the most influential--and infamous--political consultant on the planet...
...Long before the systems of the planet collapse," Gelbspan said, "the systems of democracy will collapse...