"I wouldn't necessarily call it a warm call, but it was a good first encounter," an administration official said.
"This is what a cold call looks like, this is what a warm call looks like, this is what a warm letter looks like, this is what a face-to-face looks like," she continued.
During one part of the oscillation, there is colder than normal waters (called the La Niña phase) while in the other part of the oscillation, the waters are warm (called El Niño).
This year the company is poised to earn $160 million on more than $3.9 billion worth of desktop computers, laptops, servers and peripherals, with the help of 1,052 telephone account reps who "warm call" customers.
Al Gore's coming out with a movie about global warming called "An Inconvenient Truth".
But the night before the interview another opportunity came up, for an episode about global warming called "The World Is Sinking".
This is the nation, after all, where a former chairman of the Senate committee on the environment, James Inhofe, wrote a book about global warming called "The Greatest Hoax".
The most outspoken reaction came from France, where the head of an intergovernmental task force on global warming calling the proposals "window dressing".
The Alliance of Small Island States, which represents some of the countries most at risk from global warming, called moves to delay a new treaty "reckless and irresponsible".
When I contacted Bisque, a British company, for information about a towel warmer called Archibald that looks like dangling coat hangers, I was referred to Runtal, a Swiss company that distributes Bisque products in the United States.
