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Obama warns of 'devastating' hurricanes from climate change
2014-05-30 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama warned Friday that storms like Hurricane Sandy will become more frequent as climate change intensifies. While being briefed by emergency response officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) headquarters, Obama urged the public to prepare now for this year's hurricane season. "The changes were seeing in our climate means that, unfortunately, storms like Sandy could end up being more common and more devastating," Obama said. "And thats why were also going...
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Hurricanes reaching peak strength farther north as globe warms, tropics expand
2014-05-15 01:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: As the Earth`s oceans have warmed over the last three decades, the grounds for destructive hurricanes have crept northward finds a new study, published by three of the world`s leading tropical weather experts. This observed poleward jog could reflect the first "robust" signal that the build-up of greenhouse gases from human activity is influencing tropical storms, the authors say. Identifying a firm connection between hurricane activity and manmade global warming has proven elusive. The 2013 Intergovernmental...
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Florida's Fuel Dwindling as State Braces for Hurricanes: Energy
2014-05-08 05:13:27| Energy - Topix.net
Florida, the biggest gasoline market on the U.S. East Coast, is enduring a supply squeeze and higher prices just a month before the start of the hurricane season.
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Offshore wind farms could tame hurricanes before they reach land
2014-02-26 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Computer simulations by Professor Mark Z. Jacobson have shown that offshore wind farms with thousands of wind turbines could have sapped the power of three real-life hurricanes, significantly decreasing their winds and accompanying storm surge, and possibly preventing billions of dollars in damages. For the past 24 years, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, has been developing a complex computer model to study air pollution, energy, weather and climate....
Wind Turbines Could Tame Hurricanes
2014-02-26 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: In addition to providing a renewable source of energy and reducing societys carbon footprint, wind turbines may provide the added benefit of taming the power of a hurricane. According to a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change, thousands of offshore wind turbines could diminish hurricanes` wind speeds, wave heights and storm surge. "We found that when wind turbines are present, they slow down the outer rotation winds of a hurricane," said study author Mark Z. Jacobsen, a professor...
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