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specific heat

noun as in heat required to raise temperature

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“Without a specific heat standard, it makes it more challenging for regulators to decide, ‘OK, this employer’s breaking the law or not.’”

The panel finds that these specific heat events, as well as others, would have been “extremely unlikely to occur without human influence on the climate system.”

They have a high “specific heat capacity” — it takes a lot of energy to raise their temperatures by just a degree.

Rapid attribution analysis attempts to answer two questions about a specific heat event: how much worse, and how much more likely, did climate change make it?

Known as the Breathing Shoe, the sneaker material is home to microorganisms that can learn a user’s specific heat emissions and opens up ventilation based on those patterns.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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