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...difficult in the middle of winter - especially if you live in the frigid Northeastern U.S., as I do - to remain convinced that global warming will be such a bad thing. Beyond the fact that people prefer warmth to cold, there's a reason the world's population is clustered in the Tropics and subtropics: warmer climates usually mean longer and richer growing seasons. So it's easy to imagine that on a warmer globe, the damage inflicted by more frequent and severe heat waves would be balanced by the agricultural benefits of warmer temperatures...
...true that as temperatures warm, there is likely to be a temporary beneficial effect on agriculture. Like people, plants generally prefer warmth to cold, and they may flourish with rising levels of CO2. But research from Wolfram Schlenker at Columbia University shows that, as average temperatures continue to warm, those benefits dwindle and eventually reverse, and crop yields begin to decline. "It simply becomes too hot for the growing plants," says Naylor. "The heat damages the crops' ability to produce enough yield...
...percent and rising, Obama’s Gallup approval ratings have been surpassed by only two newly elected presidents since FDR: Kennedy approaching the peak of the cold war, and Johnson after Kennedy’s assassination. “That’s the sort of rating you see when the public rallies around a leader after a national disaster,” CNN analyst Bill Schneider remarked last month. Put another way, Americans are seeing a savior where they should see a Democrat...
...French student, originally from the Cote d’Ivoire. Unlike many Harvard students, he did not arrive in Cambridge with the certainty of a sparse-but-stable dorm life ahead of him. At 8:00 a.m., Yelbi will soon be forced out of the room, into the cold. At the homeless shelter at the First Church in Cambridge, Yelbi is the youngest of the shelter’s 14 guests. He joins an ever growing population that finds even the barest of necessities—a warm bed, breakfast, and consistent shelter—hard to find, especially...
...Crimson got off to a sloppy, ice-cold start, failing to score for nearly six minutes. But when it finally got on the board, Berry led the charge, scoring seven of the team’s first nine points...