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Found inside – Page 91These have included apparitions of angels, heavenly cloud formations and strange weather phenomena like that experienced by Jesus on the cross, ... Found inside – Page 34This massive difference in temperature can lead to some strange weather phenomena – the waters appear to smoke and the surface can look greasy; ... Intended as a contribution to a “green” cultural criticism, Strange Weather is a provocative investigation of the ways in which science is shaping the popular imagination of today, and delimiting the possibilities of tomorrow. In this volume, the most important contemporary questions on lightning are addressed and analyzed under many experimental and theoretical aspects. Found inside“Well, the current drastic level of climate change is due to a phenomenon known as ... The warming causes the strange weather all over the world—droughts in ... Found inside... there is some strange weather that has hit California. They are having Firenadoes! 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These and other seemingly fantastic scenarios are the very possible realities explored in Peter Ward's Future Evolution, a penetrating look at what might come next in the history of the planet. Explores some of the United States most severe or unusual weather systems, including electrified dust storms, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, ball lightning, and falls of fish and toads. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Hany Farid offers a concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media. Found inside – Page 205He noted that it was snowing in but a single spot as he spotted the source of this strange weather phenomenon: a woman standing 100 arms away, ... Found inside... the threat of some cataclysmic event – in The Tower, those threats include strange weather phenomena and mass migrations that suggest the End of Days. 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