Word: warmers
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...EARTH GETS WARMER, WILL THE ICE CAPS melt? That's a matter of hot debate among scientists who worry about possible climatic change. The Antarctic ice sheet alone is larger than the continental U.S. and holds a mass of water that if melted would raise world sea levels by about...
...altitudes where no sea should have been. By measuring the age of nearby volcanic ash, a team led by Peter Barrett at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, concluded that the whole area was probably flooded during the mid-Pliocene epoch -- when temperatures were only a few degrees warmer than today...
...warmer temperatures manganese is present near the surface of the Fresh Pond reservoir, Healy said. But when the temperature drops suddenly, manganese sinks to the bottom of the reservoir and is pumped into the city's water pipes...
...what was he doing so high in the mountains? To Egg, the evidence suggests that the Iceman could have been a shepherd, part of a group tending sheep or cattle. Ekkehard Dreiseitel, a University of Innsbruck climatologist, agrees. "We know the weather 5,000 years ago was somewhat warmer. The pasturage in the high Alps ((above the tree line)) would have been tempting in the summer, since it requires no clearing of the forest." Because the ax resembles those found in Stone Age settlements near Brescia, Italy, Egg suggests that the Iceman and fellow shepherds had worked their way through...
GLOBAL-WARMING SCENARIOS ARE MOSTLY GLOOM and doom. As humans burn more fossil fuels, more carbon dioxide (CO2) enters the atmosphere. CO2 traps the sun's heat, causing a warmer climate, rising sea levels and drastic changes in weather. The one bright spot seemed to be that because plants "breathe" CO2, they might be expected to thrive...