Monthly Archives: November 2017

The Climate Action of the US at the Bonn Conference

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

The Climate Action of the US at the Bonn COP23 Conference Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York City, noted that the US Climate Action effort called America’s Pledge involved 20 states, 110 cities, universities, and 1,400 businesses.   The … Continue reading →

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Southwestern Temperature Increases with Climate Change

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

The Fourth National Climate Assessment includes projections for temperature increases that can cause cause droughts and decrease the winter storage of water to cover summer needs. The report uses the do-nothing RCP 8.5 projection, and calculates the temperature increases for … Continue reading →

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Climate Change, Flooding, and West Coast Cities

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

This summer we saw that nature does not go gentle into that good night. The gentle global mean sea level rise predictions in the Fourth National Climate Assessment Intermediate case are 1.1 feet to 2050, but then they sharply increase … Continue reading →

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Extreme Storm Predictions for the West Coast

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Extreme Storm Predictions for the West Coast From Chapter 9 of the Fourth National Climate Assessment. It is predicted that there will be an increase in tropical cyclones in the Eastern North Pacific. Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) from the Western sub-tropical … Continue reading →

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Projections for Sea Level Rise

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Projections for Sea Level Rise in the Forth National Climate Assessment We summarize the data on past Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) rise, on the recent increase in the rate of rise, and future projections for a century and two. … Continue reading →

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Can Big Data Trace Gun Threats? Perhaps Easily.

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Can Big Data Trace Gun Threats? Perhaps easily. Everyone knows that if they look at one tile site on the web, they will be getting tile ads for weeks and phone spam calls. Big Data knows who you are in … Continue reading →

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So Long Russia, and Thanks for All the Uranium

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

So Long Russia, and Thanks for All the Uranium (The title is a takeoff from the title of the fourth book in the trilogy of Douglas Adam’s “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” reading “So Long, and Thanks for All … Continue reading →

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Fox News and Trump’s Fraud on US’s Russian Uranium

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Fox News and Trump’s Fraud on US’s Russian Uranium The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler on Oct. 31, 2017 deflated the Fox and Trump Halloween scare that Russia had 20% of US Uranium. Actually, the uranium in question belonged to a … Continue reading →

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