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Showing posts with label storms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storms. Show all posts
Friday, February 28, 2014

Harnessing the wind to fight the storms of climate change

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How Offshore wind turbines can win a david and goliath battle with hurricanes. Here is a lateral idea: build large offshore wind farms that ...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Crops devastated, food crisis looms in Haiti from Hurricane Sandy

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At least 54 people were killed by Hurricane Sandy in Haiti due to the torrential rains, flooding and destruction of essential bridges and ...

Superstorm Sandy a wakeup call on climate change for the USA?

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Hurricane Sandy on October 29. Courtesy: NASA In the three presidential debates between Mitt Romney and Barak Obama climate change was neve...
Sunday, January 1, 2012

Cyclone Intensity in North Indian Ocean linked to increasing air pollution

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A recent study linked increasing air pollution over the Indian sub-continent to an increase in the intensity of Tropical cyclones in the Ara...
Friday, October 7, 2011

Philippines calls for progress in climate talks in Typhoon devastation aftermath

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Filipinos are fighting for survival amid worsening climate change according to the Philippine delegation to the United Nations Framework Co...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Melbourne hail storm - don't mention climate change

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by Flowerpower Melbourne experienced a hail storm March 6th that has done hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars of damage. The ...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

2009 set to become the Fifth hottest year on Record, in the Hottest Decade

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2009 is likely to be the fifth warmest year on record according to the World Meteorological Organisation, with the current decade being the ...