Word: meteorologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning session at the World Conference on the Future of Mankind, the English-speaking delegates in Committee Room B were discussing 'Science and Spiritual Wisdom.' After the third speaker, a meteorologist, had delivered his speech, an earnest American student stood up and asked...
...science leading us deeper and deeper into the possibility of total self-annihilation?' The meteorologist hunched closer to the microphone...
...familiar as the monsoon cycle may be, the winds remain inscrutable-"a sea of question marks," says Australian Meteorologist Peter Webster. Predicting them is bafflingly difficult; they are a cauldron of complex, wildly fluctuating conditions. Says the U.S. National Science Foundation's Richard Greenfield: "They can vary fantastically over the space of a few miles, and even a one-or two-degree temperature shift sets vast amounts of airborne water dropping...
...epicenter of the quake was about ten miles off the Mexican coast. "It would have been much worse if the epicenter had been located on land," Gesar Bauza, a leading Mexican meteorologist, said yesterday...
...argued that the U.S. should be building a food reserve in anticipation of droughts, instead of decreasing surpluses in good years to maintain higher prices. He would also like to see far more conservation of water on a regular basis, rather than only during crises. University of Nebraska Agricultural Meteorologist Norman J. Rosenberg advocated breeding plants that require less water for growth and survival, greater soil conservation measures and more widespread planting of windbreaks to reduce soil erosion...