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Bryson, for one, blames the earth's cooling on an increase of dust in the atmosphere. Acting like tiny mirrors, dust particles reflect some of the sunlight striking the earth's atmosphere, depriving the surface of solar heat. Bryson believes that the excess dust comes in part from volcanic eruptions, which seem to have increased in recent years. Still other atmosphere polluters could be: 1) extensive land clearing and deforestation by slash-and-burn techniques, and 2) the increased use of fossil fuels, which release soot into...
Still other climatologists suspect that global temperature changes could stem from wobbles in the earth's rotation that alter the amount of sunlight striking the surface. Some think that there may even be subtle changes in the earth's orbit, which would increase or decrease the distance from...
...only be a random fluctuation, rather than part of any fixed cycle. In fact until a few years ago, many scientists suspected that the earth would heat up, largely because of mankind's increasing output of carbon dioxide. A byproduct of fossil-fuel burning, the gas lets sunlight pass down through the atmosphere but prevents the escape of infra-red heat waves that are radiated from the earth's surface. Thus the gas adds to the planet's heat store...
...provincial France during the summer and fall of 1944, when Germany's defeat began to seem certain. Lucien (Pierre Blaise), still in his teens, works in a hospital ward. The cries and murmurs of pain from the wounded cause him to turn toward the window, to the summer sunlight. He sees a bird in a nearby tree, singing, and with a certain glee, kills it with his slingshot. It is almost a reflexive action, without real significance to Lucien...
...auto factory. The working space is airy, uncluttered by stacks of spare parts. The plant is so quiet that workers can chat in normal tones, or hum along with the pop tunes playing on their cassette tape recorders. Troubleshooters on lightweight bicycles ensure a steady flow of spare parts. Sunlight plays against bright-colored walls through huge picture windows looking out on the landscape. But the most puzzling question in Ford's mind would be: What happened to the assembly line...