The discovery unearthed the grim consequences of the cypress tree's global popularity, while implicating climate change in ferocious fungus diseases attacking woodlands around the world.
The company arrived after a ferocious battle and in a climate of political uncertainty about the degree of commitment to the war.
As George Packer wrote in an important New Yorker article, because of ferocious procedural nit-picking, these topics: climate change, immigration, job creation, food safety, veterans' care, campaign finance, labour laws, plus scores of executive and judicial appointments, were among those "the world's greatest deliberative body was incapable of addressing".
There are ferocious debates today over health care, climate change, education policy, the budget and America's long term fiscal position, over Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, Iran, China, and economic policy.
Most climate scientists respond that the ferocious storms are consistent with forecasts that a heating planet will produce more frequent and more intense weather events.
But the houses are old and poorly built and unsanitary, and the psychological climate is at once depressed and ferocious.
The northwest of Ireland has such a damp summer climate, it means the growth is ferocious, almost junglish, and by late summer there's a kind of swampy, oppressive atmosphere—I definitely respond to this physically and emotionally.
However, financial disclosure records for the US Senate indicate that Oglivy Government Relations – a standalone lobbying firm in the same Washington DC office building as Oglivy PR – represents some of the most ferocious opponents of Barack Obama's efforts to act on climate change, including the American Petroleum Institute, the biggest oil industry lobby.
On Thursday, my colleagues Matthew L. Wald and John Schwartz explained how a summer of ferocious heat, drought and storms, probably exacerbated by a warming climate, have taken a costly toll on the nation's infrastructure, including airports, highways, power grids and transit systems.
