Word: warmers
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REALITY: The area of ocean where surface waters are warmer than 80 degreesF has already expanded one-sixth during the past 20 years...
PREDICTION: Sea levels will rise as warmer oceans expand and ice caps and snow cover melt...
Harvard Real Estate has invested in a project to benefit Harvard financially while assisting entrepreneurial spirit. Let's give time, warmer weather, and continued advertising--along with a touch of persistence--a chance...
...climate transitions -- the opposite of what really happens. The last Ice Age was in full retreat about 13,000 years ago when temperatures suddenly reversed and began heading lower again. They stayed low for 1,000 years, an episode known as the Younger Dryas period. The periodic "spikes" of warmer weather that have interrupted ice ages and the cold weather that often came on suddenly in the last interglacial period are also impossible to explain with astronomy. And so is the astonishingly rapid changeover from warm to cold...
...short, while there is no reason to think the next full-fledged Ice Age is upon us, a shorter episode of frigid conditions could happen at any time. The last interglacial period was warmer than this one and also, arguably, more unstable. It is conceivable that the greenhouse effect could heat up the planet for a while but then trigger changes that could plunge the earth into a sudden chill. And for an idea of what a mini-Ice Age might be like, just imagine last week's cold wave lasting all winter, every winter -- for the next thousand years...