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...World Meteorological Organization announced what many Americans this season have been feeling in their bones: Baby, it's hot outside. In fact, 1998 will go down as the warmest year on the planet since temperature records have been kept. Worse, 1998 will be recorded as the 20th year in a row that the surface of the earth has been warmer than its recent long-term average. Researchers worry that we may have seen nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1998 a Milestone in Global Warming | 12/18/1998 | See Source »

...have a hard time overshadowing her more famous brother. In June, owing in part to El Nino and in part to some longer-term warming trends, global mean temperatures reached an all-time high. The first six months of 1998 have already entered the record books as the warmest in the past 100 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blowing Hot And Cold | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

Wang Dan's opinions differ greatly from my own. But he is a man of great principle who will dream, who will sacrifice for a better future for China. Let us extend to him the warmest of welcomes to Harvard Summer School. DANIEL C. BOYER...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dissident Deserves Welcome | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

...spiritual leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas, was heartily received around most of the Arab world on a recent tour, his first after his release from an Israeli prison last October. But the welcome mat was held back in the place Yassin might have expected to find the warmest greeting. Jordan, whose KING HUSSEIN pressured Israel into freeing Yassin, twice refused him entry. According to a senior Jordanian official, Hussein, who has for years tolerated a high-profile Hamas office in Amman, is weary of the group, which has waged a series of deadly bomb attacks in Israel. Yassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jordan: Hussein Signals No Vacancy to Hamas | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

Three of the warmest years of the 20th century were bunched in the 1990s. Does this reflect a long-term warming of the globe by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as many atmospheric scientists have contended? Or was the hot spell just a random, unexceptional fluctuation in the weather? A study published last week in Nature magazine by climatologist Michael Mann and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, may help melt away any lingering doubt about global warming. The scientists developed what amounts to a time-traveling thermometer. Applying innovative statistical tools to reams of evidence gathered from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Watch: It Hasn't Been This Sizzling In Centuries | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

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