Word: weatherly
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...other end of the political spectrum, environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was blaming the hurricane on ... Haley Barbour, the Governor of Mississippi, who played a "central role ... derailing the Kyoto Protocol" on global warming. Kennedy's larger point was defensible-global warming may well cause extreme weather patterns-but the implication that one man and one (flawed) treaty might have prevented this storm seemed a bit much...
...hours at filling stations in the country's southern province of Guangdong two weeks ago, waiting to fill tanks with petrol that was suddenly in short supply. The scenes of idle gas pumps and irate drivers, which evoked memories of oil shocks of the 1970s, were the result of weather-related supply disruptions, according to the government. The fuel flow was quickly restored, but no one is willing to predict the gas lines won't recur...
...RUSSIA The Kola Peninsula, which borders Norway, is an Atlantic salmon paradise. Trips with Fishingnorth kick off from Murmansk; cold war-era helicopters drop you and a guide on such remote rivers as the Pana. Most fishing spots have huts in case the Arctic weather turns nasty. tel: (46) 928 10088; www.fishingnorth.com...
...long, long time before human beings began chopping down rainforests and fouling the atmosphere. To get such a tempest going, you don?t need much more than ocean temperatures above 80 degrees Fahrenheit; a cool, wet atmosphere above and a warm, wet one near the surface; and a preexisting weather disturbance with a bit of spin to it far enough from the equator (at least 300 miles) so that the rotation of the Earth amplifies the rotation of the storm. The more intense the storm becomes, the more the temperature of its core climbs, accelerating the spin, exacerbating the storm...
...RUSSIA The Kola Peninsula, which borders Norway, is an Atlantic salmon paradise. Trips with Fishingnorth kick off from Murmansk; cold war-era helicopters drop you and a guide on such remote rivers as the Pana. Most fishing spots have huts in case the Arctic weather turns nasty. tel: (46) 928 10088; www.fishingnorth.com...