Why are efforts to uncover the effects of fluoride so vilified, and why is the atmosphere so toxic?
If so, then why is the atmosphere not freezing?
It's why the whole atmosphere is a little chillier than usual, writes Sam Farmer in The Los Angeles Times, even if it is finally warm in New York.
The playwrights seem not to have agreed on whether they were writing a comedy or a tragedy – which might explain why the dominant atmosphere is entertainingly abject.
Al-Kindi mentions the same Koranic passage, and discusses the special nature of prophetic knowledge, in a meteorological work entitled On Why the Higher Atmosphere is Cold (see Abu Rida 1953 , 92 93.
They want to know, for example, why the outer atmosphere of the sun is more than 1,000 times hotter than the star's surface.
"Scientists have wondered why the high atmospheres of Saturn and other gas giants are heated far beyond what might normally be expected by their distance from the sun," Sarah Badman, a Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team associate at Lancaster University, England, said in a statement.
Why? Think of the atmosphere as a giant bathtub.
A clear example of man's impact on his environment is global warming, which is the subject of a big UN summit this week and next in the Netherlands: man's emissions of greenhouse gases, the result of burning forests and fossil fuels, is very likely the main reason why the earth's atmosphere is hotting up.Is all this cause for alarm?
Whoever turns out to be right, though, it is an intriguing idea: instead of releasing the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels into the atmosphere, why not recapture it by photosynthesis?
