Word: warms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wanting to give sex education to kindergartners. Though the new attacks are misleading, they have allowed Palin to continue to play booster on McCain's rocket. McCain aides abandoned their plans to send her out on the trail by herself and have instead installed her as his more popular warm-up act. McCain himself certainly seems revitalized, following Palin at each stop with a fiery stump speech filled with barbs aimed at Obama, though cable news networks sometimes cut to commercials after Palin is finished. On the bus, away from reporters, the tone is friendly, informal and light--McCain quizzing...
...Producing all that meat will do more than just warm the world; it will also raise pressure on land resources. The FAO estimates that about 20% of the planet's pastureland has been degraded by grazing animals, and increased demand for meat means increased demand for animal feed - much of the world's grain production is fed to animals rather than to humans. (The global spike in grain prices over the past year is in large part due to the impact on grain supplies of the growing demand for meat.) The expanded production of meat has been facilitated by industrial...
...terribly wrong. "Right now, anyone who lives along the Texas-Louisiana coast needs to be prepared for the potential of a major hurricane," warns Walt Zaleski, meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Fort Worth, Texas, office. Ike is expected to gain strength from the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters, and eventually become at least a Category 3 storm - meaning it will carry winds at speeds about 130 m.p.h. (See photos of Hurricane Ike here...
...multi-decadal cycles, so it's difficult to tell from year to year whether the number of hurricanes is really on the rise. So far that doesn't seem to be the case, with the overall number of storms worldwide holding about steady - in fact, some scientists argue that warming might actually bring about a reduction in the overall frequency of storms. But the Nature paper argues that warmer sea-surface temperatures will result in stronger storms, because hotter oceans mean the developing storms can draw more warm air, which powers the storm. "Hurricanes are driven by the transfer...
...faithful, her strengths deployed to close a 20-point white-voter gender gap in key swing states, her blazing novelty enough to ignite the hall and her biography so elastic that everyone from the gun owners to the PTA moms to the Pentecostals to the first timers felt warm in the embrace. "Sa-rah! Sa-rah!" the delegates roared, and the hall that felt like a tomb on Monday might as well have seen the Second Coming of Ronald Reagan, so ecstatic was the crowd...