Tradable emissions permits, which helped eliminate acid rain as an environmental problem in America, are a direct application of his work.Almost 70 years after that first Dundee lecture Mr Coase won the Nobel prize for economics.
Sports have no choice but to respond: the Wimbledon tennis tournament plans to put a roof over Centre Court to eliminate the rain delays that wreak havoc with broadcast schedules, for example, and the Australian Open has scheduled matches for prime time.
Thursday's qualifying had been postponed to Friday morning, and both practice sessions Friday night had been scuttled by rain, eliminating the chance to work under race conditions.
Officials with the Adirondack Council, an environmental group, are lobbying to reverse planned reductions in the federal budget that would severely limit or eliminate several acid rain monitoring programs.
It has always been one of the greatest tests of driving skill, and through the generations there have generally been two kinds of winners: The best drivers of the period — like Hill, who won five times in the 1960s — or lucky winners who profited from unusual circumstances, like Jean-Pierre Beltoise in 1972 or Olivier Panis in 1996, who benefited when rain eliminated other drivers.
It was so infested with German cockroaches that when we began eliminating them, they started to rain down on us from the ceiling.
More important, today's coal-based electricity generation is 70 to 90percentt cleaner than the plants that are being replaced — close to eliminating historical contributions to acid rain and smog.
Each of the four missions in Cloud has a different objective, including forming patterns in the sky with clouds, eliminating black clouds, and creating rain over each of the islands.
Matagorda Bay fishing has suffered because of historically low deliveries of freshwater, and only recent rains prevented the agency from eliminating those too.
Eliminating aerosols could reduce their tendency to evaporate rain clouds, and the region could get wetter, says Rob Wood, ORACLES deputy principal investigator and an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle.
