Word: warmers
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...government scientist David Kelly, committed suicide. Strained relations with the government probably did not directly affect license-fee negotiations, but add to the sense that the once-beloved Auntie Beeb has become the relative nobody wants to sit next to at family events. She's unlikely to find a warmer reception from a Conservative government: Tories and Euro-skeptics regularly accuse the BBC of a pro-Europe bias and a left-liberal agenda...
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...cold. “It’s not so bad because the library’s always open, but it gets frustrating,” she said. “My roommate’s been studying in the laundry room.” Students from warmer climates were also caught unprepared for the cold. “I rub my hands together until I fall asleep or I go to the bathroom to run hot water on my hands to warm them up,” said Hetty A. O. Afari ’11, who is from...
...inaccuracies. “It is easy for people to misrepresent the former vice president,” McCarthy said. “But people who don’t like his message must remember that climate is full of surprises. We are moving into a warmer world for which we have no historical perspective.” Although Nobel prizes are meant to be apolitical, the question of Gore’s running for president has been raised by supporters, despite his statements that he is not interested in running. At a news conference in Palo Alto, Calif., last...
...would be the Kenyan Wangari Maathai, a conservationist and political activist who won in 2004.) As the IPCC's own reports this year show, unabated global warming will likely lead to competition for increasingly scarce resources and create waves of climate refugees in the hottest and poorest nations. A warmer world will almost certainly be a more violent one, so it's fitting that those who've done the most on climate change should be celebrated as warriors for peace...