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Getting data on cloud cover isn't easy. There is reliable information from satellites, but those only go back a few decades - not long enough to provide a reliable forecast for the future. Clement and her colleagues combined recent satellite data with human observations - literally, from sailors scanning the sky - that go back to 1952, and found the two sets were surprisingly in sync. "It's pretty remarkable," says Clement. "We were almost shocked by the degree of concordance...
...gallon, he argues, traveling youth-sports teams will decide to stick close to home; at $10, gift cards will be biodegradable and have literal expiration dates; and at $14 per gallon, Wal-Mart will die, garbage trucks will shrink and U.S. manufacturing will be reborn. Steiner contends that sky-high gas prices will force the country to reorganize itself - we'll abandon exurbs in favor of cities and small towns - and drive us to consume less. He talked to TIME about the impending decline of the SUV, what we can learn from China and Spain, and what he has against...
...years since Galileo gazed in wonder at the night sky through a telescope for the first time, and to celebrate the event, 2009 has been declared the International Year of Astronomy...
...text of the speech online, a vaudevillian assortment of right-wing politicians and commentators have taken this remark as evidence that Sotomayor is a racist who will pursue an unknown agenda once ensconced in that great neoclassical retirement home known as the U.S. Supreme Court. Rush Limbaugh - cue falling sky - declared it the dawn of Macaca-gate II. (See pictures of the Sotomayor hearings...
...Though French government officials have shown a willingness to placate - and pay off - rambunctious protesters in the past, they may think twice about bending to the threats of blowing New Fabris sky-high. That violent ultimatum is only the most recent in a series of escalating acts of intimidation by French workers facing layoffs. Last April, French fishermen furious over the effect European Union fish quotas were having on their bottom line blocked traffic in and out of North Atlantic ports for two days until they were promised state aid. Recently, France has witnessed a series of so-called bossnappings...