Word: weather
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...came on a weekend that featured a wide range of weather, which played right into kovacs’ experienced hands...
...hole,” sophomore Peter Singh said. Singh shot 80-76 to finish tied for 41st at 14-over and was one of the very few golfers, along with teammate Mayer, to post a lower score in the second round than in the first. Aside from the wind, weather conditions were ideal, especially for this time of the year. Temperatures reached the 60s on Saturday and the skies were clear and sunny. Still, team members considered Shelter Harbor to be the most difficult course the team has played at to date, noting its considerable length and fast greens...
...It’s easy to pass off the late-August floods that took 20 lives and cost millions of dollars to clean up from Texas to Wisconsin—freakish weather in a part of the America where that’s common. Unless of course, those were your houses washed away, your relatives drowned, or your insurance premiums raised...
...climate system is now unequivocal…The global average net affect of human activities…has been one of warming.” As a result of this warming, “widespread changes in precipitation amounts, ocean salinity, wind patterns and aspects of extreme weather including droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves and the intensity of tropical cyclones...
...shame that our world leaders, when faced with an imminent crisis, can think only of their wallets. The rapid melting of the Arctic ice cap is the most obvious consequence of a global climate change that has the potential to cause increases in species loss, infectious diseases and extreme weather events. Instead of focusing on how to solve this impending tragedy, politicians are fighting to exploit it. Elina El-Badry, Gaithersburg...