Stardust managers would use heaters to raise the temperature of one or more optical surfaces possibly coated with the goo.

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It turns out, of course, that we are very temperature-stable organisms, so if you raise the temperature of our cells by twenty degrees our cells will die.

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So far, most Arab governments are choosing to raise the rhetorical temperature and to intensify pleas for American intervention.

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According to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, turbines can raise the local temperature -- albeit slightly.

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This will also raise the political temperature.

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Many students of climate change argue that, although the artificial release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide works to raise the global temperature, particulate pollution should, by promoting cloud cover and thus reflecting solar energy back into space, have a compensating cooling effect.

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There is little doubt that over time this will raise the world's temperature, changing the climate in potentially damaging ways.

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Heat pumps sometimes break, and they can have a hard time quickly boosting the temperature when you raise the thermostat.

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He finds that research into geo-engineering, which might slow or check the temperature increases, languishes under-examined, and that the international problems such technology would raise seem no more likely to be sorted out wisely than the problems of climate change itself.

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