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On Sandy, Christie gets a 'D'

2014-11-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Star-Ledger: Two years after Hurricane Sandy, the vast majority of homeowners who have sought help have not received it. New Jersey has done better than New York City, but lagged behind New York State. The Christie administration has been inexcusably secretive, and has made some truly dumb mistakes, like parking trains in a flood zone. Politics intruded when dispersing money. Climate change was treated as an afterthought. But the governor has had his moments. He rallied morale, much as Mayor Rudy Giuliani...

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Two years on: Sandy inspires storm of climate research

2014-10-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: The two years that have passed since Hurricane Sandy crashed into the New Jersey shoreline have not been enough time for scientists and researchers to make much headway on the hows and whys of the Northeast's epic storm. But that's not because they aren't trying. In fact, Sandy has spurred an unprecedented amount of research, attempting to tackle the questions about what role climate change might have played in producing or worsening the storm, how global warming might influence similar storms...

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The U.S. is losing the battle to predict the next Hurricane Sandy

2014-10-30 11:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mashable: Hurricane Sandy, which made landfall near Brigantine, New Jersey, on Oct. 29, 2012, was a showcase of modern weather forecasting -- but not necessarily one enabled by American engineering. The storm shined a spotlight on the superiority of a computer model run by a European weather center, known as the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF), which, more than a week in advance, pinpointed Sandy's infamous left hook track directly into New Jersey. Now, two years after that...

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