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... heat , it had the force of a global announcement . Senator Bumpers was right about the headlines . The front page of ... heat in the world to come and heat that we feel on our skins ! It is not surprising that people on the street - with ...
... heat , it had the force of a global announcement . Senator Bumpers was right about the headlines . The front page of ... heat in the world to come and heat that we feel on our skins ! It is not surprising that people on the street - with ...
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... heat waves there twice as likely - in some circum- stances , six times as likely . Hansen , of NASA , has calculated the likelihood of heat waves in Washington , D.C. Today , the capital gets an average of one day a year above 100 ° F ...
... heat waves there twice as likely - in some circum- stances , six times as likely . Hansen , of NASA , has calculated the likelihood of heat waves in Washington , D.C. Today , the capital gets an average of one day a year above 100 ° F ...
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... heat is released to the streets of New York by space heating and vehicles than by the Sun ! " Thousands of weather stations recorded warmer temperatures in the twentieth century because of the heat - island effect . In some of the Sun ...
... heat is released to the streets of New York by space heating and vehicles than by the Sun ! " Thousands of weather stations recorded warmer temperatures in the twentieth century because of the heat - island effect . In some of the Sun ...
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