Word: predictabilities
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...forces that have caused the coast to subside are pretty well understood. What's far less clear is the possible role of global warming. That rising temperatures heat the ocean and melt ice caps is undisputed. Most climate models also predict that turning up the worldwide thermometer will lead to more extreme weather patterns--hotter hots, colder colds, harder rains. Hurricanes would seem to be especially sensitive to climate changes, since warm ocean waters are the fuel that drives the storms...
...year, according to the Energy Department. The major Gulf Coast pipelines were up and running by the end of last week, albeit at reduced capacity. The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, the nation's only deep-water tanker port, unloaded its first cargo since Aug. 27. Still, some analysts predict that disruptions in the supply chain mean motorists will be in for several more months of $3 gas or worse. "The only thing we can hope for is an amazing amount of conservation," says Houston oil analyst Matt Simmons...
...taking longer than anyone had expected, as workers resorted to low-powered explosives to break rock that had proved impervious to hand-held tools, it seemed by the morning of May 8 that Webb and Russell's freedom was imminent, perhaps a matter of hours away. In trying to predict how the miners' ordeal may affect them, medically, in the months and years ahead, it might pay to take little notice of the levity they showed in the midst of it. Sandy McFarlane, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Adelaide, suggests that to maintain the morale of rescuers...
Alvin S. Felzenberg, a fellow at the Institute of Politics who conducted a study group about bipartisanship this spring, echoed Mills’ view that he has not seen such extreme political polarization in the U.S. since before the Civil War but added that he does not predict another...
...this year, so maybe, moving forward, if that is the thing that makes sense [we’ll do it].”One thing is for certain, though. Depth at the goalie position is the key to Crimson success.“I can’t predict the future,” says Anderson. “But we are very fortunate as a program to have that much talent at that position. That is the foundation of any lacrosse team. You can’t succeed without having solid talent in the goal...