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Coping with Coastal Flood Risk, Future Climate Change
Superstorm Sandy's effects
How New York and New Jersey balance the desire to restore damaged coastal communities with the obligation to prevent future disasters may set precedents for how the US manages risks arising from extreme weather events.[read more]
Arctic Ice Loss Amplified Superstorm Sandy
Superstorm Sandy
A new report states the severe loss of summertime Arctic sea ice, attributed to greenhouse warming, appears to increase the frequency of atmospheric blocking events like the one that steered Hurricane Sandy into the New York City area.[read more]
Extreme hot weather in the USA and climate change
The current spate of very hot weather across much of the USA (and not forgetting the balmy “winter” days in many states back in the early part of the year) raises the question of the role of climate change in relation to such extremes.[read more]
Starting to Understand Extreme Weather
With a new report coming from the IPCC on managing the risks associated with extreme weather and continued weather phenomena attracting media attention, it is more important to attempt to get to grips with the science and statistics behind this rapidly emerging field of research. Work along such lines is starting to develop.[read more]
Global warming means local storming
The Earth Day rally was incredible. Well over 100,000 people were in the crowd, well over 10x what the Tea Partiers delivered on tax day, so you can figure out which event the media fawned over. I ended up spending a lot of time chatting with James Cameron, and I’ll do a separate post on what he’s like in person. I...[read more]
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“I believe that the FF companies, since they have the money to do so at this time, will invest in the machine automation required to mass produce batteries and solar. The object is to extract the cheapest, most abundant sources for these new energy components.As something to think about, solar's growth averaged about 33% and as of 2012, was a whopping 78%. Now, if subsidies were reduced to where ...”
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