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...potentially positive effects of climate change, at least in the short term, is that increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may enhance the growth of plants. That could be good for agriculture - though warming temperatures and changing rain patterns in a warmer world might wipe out that advantage. But there are no unalloyed gifts from climate change. Recent research suggests that global warming will also exacerbate respiratory allergies, as higher CO2 concentrations lead to vast increases in ragweed pollen production. "There's no denying there's a change," says Paul Ratner, an immunologist with the American College...
...really on the rise. So far that doesn't seem to be the case, with the overall number of storms worldwide holding about steady - in fact, some scientists argue that warming might actually bring about a reduction in the overall frequency of storms. But the Nature paper argues that warmer sea-surface temperatures will result in stronger storms, because hotter oceans mean the developing storms can draw more warm air, which powers the storm. "Hurricanes are driven by the transfer of energy from the ocean to the atmosphere," says Kerry Emanuel, a meterologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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...testify to his originality in film criticism, and to his influence, certainly in the acceptance of the "male action film." Carrie Rickey called him "a man's man, and some of Manny's preference for Hawks and Walsh films over the warmer, daintier ones of, say, George Cukor, may reflect a man's impatience with women's problems and their need to talk about them. You could say his take prefigures today's movies, where women are absent or subservient and guys get to do guy things...
...Greenland's air, say, 115,000 years ago. That's the end of the Eemian geologic period, the warm era before the earth's last Ice Age (which ran until about 11,700 years ago). We know the planet was some 3° to 5°C (5° to 9°F) warmer during the Eemian period than it is today, and by analyzing the NEEM ice core, researchers might be able to figure out how the Greenland ice sheet--which contains enough frozen water to raise sea levels by 7 meters if it were all to melt--might react...