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While the six remaining incumbents appear secure, nobody wants to predict who will occupy the other three seats, or which political faction will gain the upper hand...
...Graham and Sullivan predict that the city's "progressives" might feel sufficiently threatened to get out the vote in unprecedented numbers and secure a fifth seat. Graham adds that the usual turnout for city council elections is around 35 percent of the electorate. In this election, she says creating a sense of urgency to get out the vote may be the most important task for either side...
There are those who believe the worst scenarios are alarmist and ill founded. Some scientists contest the global-warming theory or predict that natural processes will counter its effects. Kenneth E.F. Watt, professor of environmental studies at the University of California at Davis, has gone so far as to call the greenhouse effect "the laugh of the century." S. Fred Singer, a geophysicist working for the U.S. Department of Transportation, predicts that any greenhouse warming will be balanced by an increase in heat- reflecting clouds. The skeptics could be right, but it is far too risky to do nothing while...
...have been better timed to drive his point home. The heat waves, droughts, floods and hurricanes may be previews of what could happen with ever increasing frequency if the atmosphere warms 3 degrees F to 8 degrees F by the middle of the next century, as some scientists predict...
...help answer those questions, political scientist Michael Glantz of the National Center for Atmospheric Research has pioneered the use of a technique known as "forecasting by analogy" to predict the effects on society of future climatic change. In a series of case studies, Glantz and his colleagues analyzed the response of state and local governments to actual environmental events across the U.S., from a 12-ft. rise in the level of Utah's Great Salt Lake to the depletion of the aquifer that supplies groundwater to eight Great Plains states...