<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">3. To subject to severe strain; draw upon heavily; load with a burden or burdens; as labor that <i class="">taxes</i> the brain.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2210745" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2210745&ved=2ahUKEwiX9pC447HgAhVrj1QKHXCMA5YQFjABegQICRAB" class=""><h3 class="LC20lb" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block;"><font color="#000000" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Funk & Wagnalls new Standard dictionary of the English language. 1938</font></h3></a></div><div class=""><div class="TbwUpd" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline-block; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-top: 2px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 33); font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px;"><a href="https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2210745" class="">https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2210745</a></cite></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br class="">"The most likely way the climate could be influenced by either natural or artificial means seems to be </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">through a trigger mechanism that ultimately changes the radiation balance .... the burning of fossil </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">fuels would presumably lead to more absorption of long-wave terrestrial radiation in the atmosphere </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">and consequently to greater heating."</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">Abraham Oort. "The Energy Cycle of the Earth," Scientific American. September 1970<br class="">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br class="">"The greatest disturbances of which we are aware are those now being introduced by man himself. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Since his tampering with the biological and geochemical balances may ultimately prove injurious </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">-- even fatal -- to himself, he must understand them better than today."<br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">Bert Bolin. "The Carbon Cycle." Scientific American, September 1970</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">****************************************************<br class="">“The atmospheric engine is subtle in it operation and delicate in its adjustments. Extra inputs of </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">energy … can have significant and far-reaching consequences.”<br class=""><br class="">Singer, Fred S. "Human Energy Production as a process in the biosphere.” </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Scientific American, September 1970.</div></div></div>
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