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The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is approaching, and forecasters predict it will be active and potentially dangerous. … [emphasis, links added] Hurricane Helene hit Florida's Gulf Coast in late September, flooding the Southeast and causing devastating flooding in North Carolina's mountains. The following is Top 10 deadliest hurricanes on record in U.S. history, according to the National Weather Service. 10. The Last Island Hurricane (1856) Last Island hurricane kills 400 After striking the Louisiana coast in August 1856. In the aftermath of the storm, the island's highest point was submerged under five feet of water and the resort hotel and…
Michael O'Sullivan Ah, election season. During this holiday season, politicians suddenly have new ideas about how to make our lives better. This year, attention has been focused on our venerable American economy, which is currently in either good or bad shape, depending on who you ask. But it's election season, so voters have the final say and experts can surprise. That's why today we have Both Presidential candidates are proposing economic policies that have economists frowning and voters cheering. A recent Wall Street Journal poll of the economic policy ideas of both campaigns provides a good illustration of the wide…
The U.S. metropolitan area most vulnerable to storm surge damage is Tampa/St. Petersburg. According to a 2015 report by Karen Clark & Company, U.S. cities most vulnerable to storm surge flooding. Its once-in-a-century storm (1% chance of occurring in any year) is a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph (240 km/h). Such a storm hitting northern Tampa Bay is expected to cause $230 billion ($2,024) in damage from the storm surge alone. Tampa Bay is not frequently hit by hurricanes because the city faces the ocean to the west and the east-west trade winds prevail at that latitude,…
There are rumors that the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene was deliberately created by the Biden administration to incapacitate red areas of the country and thereby interfere with early voting. [emphasis, links added] What is the difference between conspiracy theories and facts? As the saying goes, about six months. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted on “Yes, they can control the weather.” She included a video clip of John Brennan, President Barack Obama's CIA director, discussing the matter. Yes, they can control the weather. Obama's CIA director John Brennan is talking about it. Anyone who says otherwise or makes fun of…
NOAA's U.S. Summers measures minimum and maximum temperature trends (June-August) from 1895 to 2024 (shown below, from NOAA's Climate at a Glance Times series data website) Compared with the calculated average temperature trend results, a clear and obvious different temperature trend with increasing growth is shown. [emphasis, links added] The minimum temperature trend results after 1985 increased significantly faster than the maximum measured temperature trend results. U.S. population data shows that the U.S. population increased by approximately 100 million people between 1980 and 2023. Since the average temperature is not a measured value, but the calculated mathematical average of the…
On the evening of August 22, 2024, Jeff Howard was preparing dinner at his home in northeast San Antonio, with local TV news playing quietly in the background. “The story is developing now. Police found a homeless woman dead on the sidewalk,” the news anchor said. When Howard saw this, he put down what he was doing and quickly approached the TV. “The cause is believed to be extreme heat.” Howard knew this was most likely because a high-pressure system called a heat dome had recently moved into south Texas. This meteorological phenomenon acts like a closed oven door, trapping…
It is often difficult for people to find work after they are released from prison. Davis: “In a country where we claim justice for all, people serve prison sentences, but they are still devastated and hurt because they have little to no chance.” Scott Alan Davis works for SEEL, a company that provides energy efficiency services. It has partnered with Illinois utility Ameren to provide training in the industry to people at the Adult Transition Center in Peoria, Illinois, which houses people who remain incarcerated but participate in a work-release program. Davis: “Then when they come out of transitional housing,…
From the Daily Skeptic Chris Morrison The Greens hate hydrocarbons, but an open war is breaking out in their ranks as the world outside their lavish millenarian cult realizes it's impossible to run modern industrial society without hydrocarbons. In the UK, gas is the only realistic backup to an electricity system powered by unreliable breezes and sunshine. But at the same time that the frantic Miliband team is shutting down local oil and gas exploration, Cornell University's Professor Robert Howarth comes forward to claim the 'carbon' footprint of transportable US liquefied natural gas (LNG) Bigger than coal. this guardian Cornell's…
not many people know Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Why would the Daily Telegraph print such propaganda? The scientist who leads global climate change research warned that humanity has missed the opportunity to control global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius and will need to make “heroic efforts” to control global warming below 2 degrees Celsius this century. Jim Skea, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said that the failure Fully curb carbon emissions By 2100, the world will warm by 3 degrees Celsius. “If we continue with current policies, global warming could reach 3°C by 2100,” Skea…
The U.S. metropolitan area most vulnerable to storm surge damage is Tampa/St. Louis. St. Petersburg. That's according to a 2015 report by Karen Clark & Company, “America's Cities Most Vulnerable to Storm Surge Flooding.” Their once-in-a-century storm (1% chance of occurring in any year) is a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph (240 km/h). Such a storm hitting north of Tampa Bay is expected to cause $230 billion ($2,024) in damage – from storm surge alone. Tampa Bay is not frequently hit by hurricanes because the city faces the ocean to the west, and the east-west trade winds…