The following discussion of the climates of the world is based on groupings of Köppen's climatic types.
Among the choices are Comparative Climatic Data (for over 250 United States cities) and a 40-page document called Climates of the World (for about 800 stations worldwide).
Climates of the Late Permian (Lopingian) Epoch were typically hot and locally very dry.
The climates of the other zones become progressively cooler, wetter, and more snowy with higher elevation.
There are at least 100 species, natives of temperate climates of the Northern Hemisphere and of western South America.
Improvements in technology and consolidation of the fruit and nut industries in the most favoured climates of the world have been responsible for a steady increase in yield.
About "5percentt of the Earth's land surface is burned every year" to make way for cattle and crops, helping to fill the atmosphere with greenhouse gases "sufficient to destabilize the climates of the entire planet".
Dr. Stoneking and his colleagues say the invention of clothing may have been a factor in the successful spread of humans around the world, especially in the cooler climates of the north.
It also looks at fiscal and monetary policy in Brazil and compares the business climates of the country's two biggest cities, checks in with Peru's new president and reports on lead pollution in Mexico.
NEANDERTHAL man was a strong, large-brained, skilful big-game hunter who had survived for more than 200,000 years in the harsh European climates of the last Ice Age.
Comparisons with Bordeaux are not entirely fatuous: the maritime climates of the two regions are similar, and the proximity of the Atlantic Ocean to the vineyards of Bordeaux means that, as in Margaret River, with the Indian Ocean to the western horizon, you can combine wine-tasting with surf and sea.
