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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, September 22, 2005

How Might Hurricanes Change with Global Warming?

Computerized climate models are a little like science fiction. They contain some of the physics we know of that describes how the atmosphere operates, they leave out other physics that computers are simply not yet fast enough to handle, and they (necessarily) ignore the things we haven't yet learned. Nevertheless, what comes out of the models fascinates us because, someday, those predictions might come true.

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