I spent the past three years sailing through storms and visiting research labs around the world to learn about the recent increase in extreme cyclones. I spoke to captains who logged changes in the Gulf Stream, the jet stream, trade winds and storm seasons. I interviewed scientists who studied amplifying typhoons in the Pacific, whose barometric pressure could drop so low that they triggered a spider web of earthquakes. I studied major cyclones that hit parts of the Middle East for the first time and some of the first hurricane landfalls to strike Europe. Experts consistently tied storm intensity, range and destruction to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — and said that if we reduced it, storm intensity would also diminish in lock step.
Here is a glimpse of where we are headed. The heat accumulating in the ocean from global warming will make tropical cyclones last longer than they once did, and occasionally move slower, making damage many times worse. Rapid intensification — in which storm winds increase by 35 miles per hour or more in 24 hours — will continue to rise, especially in coastal waters.
A 2021 study by Yale University researchers shows that warmer waters in the north and south will soon draw extreme storms toward the poles, threatening to inundate densely populated, and especially unprepared, cities like Washington, D.C., New York and Boston. A northwestward migration from the region where most Atlantic tropical cyclones originate could result in an uptick in landfalls along the East Coast later this century.
I'm irrelevant too because I don't get to vote. — unenlightened
Forgive me, I will not take your advice. If no one shovels out the shit, then the whole thread becomes shit. — unenlightened
Anti-zionism is effectively anti-semitism. — BitconnectCarlos
There's no apartheid. — BitconnectCarlos
I think you’re in over your head here mate. Why do you go on like this? — John McMannis
A troll, a complete troll, and nothing but a troll. — unenlightened
In one stretch in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, the river was 25 feet below the average for this time of year, according to the agency, which began collecting data in 1967.
Parts of three of the Amazon River’s most important tributaries — major rivers in their own right, each spanning over 1,000 miles — have also fallen to historical lows.
Your choice to not choose between possible administrations ignores the extreme rhetoric from the Trump side that has been going on for years. As citizens, these differences appear in outcomes in our communities. — Paine
, loads of Americans are still convinced to vote for people who vilify social welfare programs, public schools, publicly owned entities, organized labor, American manufacturing, self-sufficient practices, and the like. — creativesoul
I am afraid that in their attempt to sound moderate, Harris and Walz will lose support among some groups, and they will try to stick with an economic plan that does not sound popular to the majority (middle class) they are trying to appeal to in other ways. — Eros1982
I am just glad that Vance did not refuse global warming; he even blamed democrats for not having done enough with renewables — Eros1982
A forgettable "VP debate" — 180 Proof
$14.70 per share — 180 Proof
Anyways, what are other people's most uninteresting philosopher/philosophy and why? — schopenhauer1
If democrats had majority control of congress Trump could pass legislation supporting workers. — praxis
Trump wins and inexplicably prevents on "blood bath" he promises a 100% tariff, but they would still be cheap. — Fooloso4
Israel actually sent in special commando troops to al-shifa hospital. I don't believe any civilians were killed during the operation miraculously. — BitconnectCarlos
What to do about the rockets being fired from the hospital? — BitconnectCarlos
Guess we just can't go to war then. — BitconnectCarlos
I maintain that Israel does not intentionally murder civilians. — BitconnectCarlos
doesn't take away from the fact that the Biden administration carries responsibility for things going to hell — Tzeentch
What national abortion ban? — NOS4A2
The Biden administration's colossal failures of diplomacy vis-á-vis Ukraine and Israel are very important to me. — Tzeentch
I think there's zero basis to argue that Trump was worse in any meaningful way. — Tzeentch
There is no lesser evil. — Tzeentch