Word: colder
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...sudden chill would shorten growing seasons, and the resulting changes in precipitation could be even more damaging. Colder air is dryer air, and Alley points out that during the Younger Dryas, the monsoon weakened in Asia and the Sahara expanded. Harvey Weiss, a Yale archaeologist who has studied the role of climate in human history, notes that it's not changes in temperature that bring down civilizations but changes in precipitation...
...matters worse, demand for the trade goods that Greenlanders exported to Europe plummeted. Not only was African ivory once again available (the supply had been cut off during the Crusades), but the material was falling out of fashion. And Europeans had their own problems: plague, crops failing in the colder conditions and city dwellers rioting in search of food. By the time the last Norse departed Greenland, the colonies had become so marginal that it took several hundred years before some Europeans realized they were gone. The Icelandic colony suffered too, though it managed to hang...
...show is actually in a CBS studio, said Quasha, and it is much smaller--and colder--than it looks on television...
Forget the fact that the game was already won after the second inning. Never mind that the sky was grayer than the Yankees' aging roster, or that the air was colder than the reception received by Roger Clemens the last time he pitched in Boston...
When objects grow cooler, what is actually, if invisibly, happening is that their atoms are moving slower. At a certain point--about -460[degrees]F--the motion of all matter would stop. Such utter atomic stillness is not possible, since the colder atoms become, the more they draw warmth from anything in the vicinity--often from one another. In 1995, however, a team led by physicists Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell of the University of Colorado at Boulder used lasers and evaporation to achieve something known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, a supercold gas in which atoms overlap and begin...