Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final years Luce often seemed to miss the battles that had engaged her for so long, and she frequently bemoaned the fact that she had outlived all her "warm personal enemies." In a sense, what she was really lamenting was that she had, in the end, outlasted controversy. By the time of her death last week, it no longer seemed quite so remarkable that one woman could occupy so many and such different seats of power. That, perhaps, was the greatest of all the sentences that Clare Boothe Luce left to history...
...Washington, who developed the model now used at NCAR, is one significant advantage. "They are experimental tools that allow us to test our hypotheses," he says. "We can ask such questions as 'What happens when a big volcano like El Chichon goes off?' and 'How much will the earth warm up by 2030 if we continue to dump CO2 into the atmosphere...
...begun to fret that the massive burning of coal during the Industrial Revolution, which pumped unprecedented amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, might be too much of a good thing. Arrhenius made the startling prediction that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 would eventually lead to a 9 degrees F warming of the globe. Conversely, he suggested, glacial periods might be caused by diminished levels of the gas. His contemporaries scoffed. Arrhenius, however, was exactly right. In his time, the CO2 concentration was about 280 to 290 parts per million -- just right for a moderately warm, interglacial period. But today...
...high as 68,000 ft. -- were startled to encounter layers of translucent mist composed of tiny ice particles. "I went into clouds at 61,000 ft., and I didn't come out the whole time," says Williams of the first flight. Another surprise: temperatures did not warm when the plane soared into the stratosphere. Instead, they plummeted to -130 degreesF, low enough to cause worries about a fuel freeze...
...somehow at a frozen two in the morning, I didn't relish the idea of crawling across the icy floor to the frigid phone in our arctic common room. I guess deep inside I knew that the next day would bring sunny warm temperatures and with them, of course, that much-needed heat in Lowell House...