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...gardener, I don't see a suitable site on [the state lab's] land," Murn said. The buildings of the lab and tall trees of the Arboretum will block a great deal of sunlight; and even though the Lab will do soil preparation before the move, Murn said he believes the new site will be inferior...
...flat horizons and punctuating verticals of mill and steeple must have affected him right from the start. The momentum of his work begins with landscape--the delicate screens and friezes of trees above watery meadows, in their pearly gray light. The color explodes in 1908 with his Mill in Sunlight, an orgiastic response to Van Gogh, blazing with flakes of crimson and ultramarine against a sky of lemon yellow and pale blue; it is stabilized in another painting of a red mill done in 1911--its dark red trunk rising patriarchally against deep blue sky, spreading its austere vanes like...
...reason is that the computer models had been overlooking an important factor affecting global temperatures: aerosols, the tiny droplets of chemicals like sulfur dioxide that are produced along with CO2 when fossil fuels are burned in cars and power plants. Aerosols actually cool the planet by blocking sunlight and mask the effects of global warming. Says Tom Wigley, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and a member of the international panel: "We were looking for the needle in the wrong haystack...
...Unzipped" subtly highlights the detail in this bizarre world. One conversation between Mizrahi and Cindy Crawford captures their wonder at the sheer brightness of the Shea stadium lights. It's as if the two of them have become hothous, plants who have trouble understanding the sunlight. And no wonder. They rush about from one fitting to another on a planet of six-foot women and bottomless champagne flutes...
...across an area of a million square miles, scientists have also found telltale pieces of tuff, a type of rock indicative of powerful explosions. What this means, says Renne, is that the volcanoes could have easily hurled sulfur dioxide and other gases high enough into the atmosphere to block sunlight and cause substantial cooling. And if the earth cooled enough--locking up more and more water in polar ice--the sea levels would have plummeted...