Word: warmness
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...they're right, it could be pretty bad news, even for those who already worry about rising CO2. It's generally agreed that during the earlier warm period, known as the Miocene Climatic Optimum, which occurred 15 million years ago, the global temperature was high enough to make sea levels between 80 ft. and 130 ft. higher than they are today. According to the new study, CO2 levels in the atmosphere at that time hovered at from 390 to 430 parts per million (p.p.m.). Today's CO2 level: 387 p.p.m. and rising...
...hold a concert—true to his spirit, when my ensemble performed his work, we placed a row of trumpets in the balcony flanked by flutes. To those on the floor below, the sounds washing down from above blended with those from either side to provide a warm, blanket-like musical experience...
...during the Thatcher era and remembers when organizers of his party's gay-rights group refrained from spelling out the name of the organization on posters advertising its meetings, for fear of embarrassing attendees. The meetings, he says, took place "in damp basements, 30 or 40 of us drinking warm white wine and reassuring each other than the party was changing. It did turn out to be true...
...also have an administration that stops hot breakfast to balance budgets. It will do anything for a buck—except fire a dean. Two years ago, REP was encouraged to track temperatures in rooms for the manager of building systems so he could see which were too warm and then lower their heat—and save money. When students shivered, REP got the blame. The administration may again be using REP as a front man for its cuts...
...college), Honey Butter is only about one percent of your daily suggested intake! But who eats–or, rather, who has enough self-restraint merely to eat–just one tiny quarter of an ounce of this ambrosial accoutrement for some of the best warm (if not freshly baked) bread you can find at Harvard, even in the culinary Siberia that is Annenberg Hall...