The Climate Issue newsletter: The dangers of global dimming
“Albedo”—rhymes with speedo—is one of those words that I can’t help wishing more people used and understood, for two reasons. One is that it is just very euphonious; pleasant to say and hear, nicely weighted with its stressed middle syllable, endowed with pleasantly open vowels, a tad romantic in that latinate terminal “-do”—tuxedo, desperado and, indeed, libido have some of the same charm.
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