Sentences with phrase «cold nadir»
Accordingly research has estimated that during the cold nadir of each ice age, coral reef extent was reduced by 80 % and carbonate production was reduced by 73 % relative to today.
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His Cold War era tragic co-comics included Jean Bedel Bokassa (Central African Republic, who, at the nadir of his power debauchery, renamed CAR Central African Empire, and crowned himself «emperor»); and Alhaji (Dr.) Idi Amin Dada, Conqueror of the British Empire (CBE), the Ugandan power psychopath and savage.
In what must surely count as the nadir of a strange odyssey, Robert Sullivan finds himself sitting in a cold, dank alley in the middle of the night, observing his newly purchased (and forlornly empty) rat trap, fighting «a savage urge to try one of the Vienna sausages» he has used for bait.
It was close to the nadir of the cold period known as the Little Ice Age.