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Category Archives: Hurricane Irma
Bernoulli Pressures Associated with Hurricane Categories
In this article we calculate the pressures that can be generated by the various hurricane category winds. The pressure can be through direct pressures of winds encountering buildings, or through the Bernoulli reduction in pressures due to rapid airflow. Due … Continue reading
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Comparing the Citizens Climate Lobby and the Climate Leadership Council Carbon Fee and Dividend Plans
Comparing the Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL) and the Climate Leadership Council (CLC) Carbon Fee and Dividend Plans The CLC has been put forward by an Οp-Ed in the Washington Post, and the “The Pricing Advantage” by George R. Schultz and … Continue reading
Posted in 2020 Election, 2020 Primaries, Air Quality, Air Travel Emissions, Autos, CAFE Standards, California Federal Funding, California Oil, California Power Mixes, California Smog, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Education, Climate Science, Coal, Congress, Conservation, Department of Energy, Economies, Electric Cars, Electric Power, Energy Efficiency, Equivalent Electric Car Emissions, Fossil Fuel Energy, Free Trade, Global Climate Action Summit, Green Rate Plans, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Houston Flooding, Hurricane Dorian, Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Irma, Hybrid Cars, Mayor's Climate Action Plan, Natural Gas, No More Drilling, Nuclear Energy, Oil, Paris Climate Accord, Paris Climate Agreement, Politics, Poverty, Regulations, Renewable Energy, Science and Engineering Education, Solar Energy, Tax Laws, Transportation, US Oil, Wind Energy
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Costs of Weather Related Disasters Are Increasing in the US
Costs of Weather and Climate Related Disasters Over the Last 40 Years, and During the Trump Presidency The data and maps are from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. I’m jumping the storm a little since the data for 2019 … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Midterm Election, 2020 Election, 2020 Primaries, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Education, Climate Science, Donald Trump, Economies, EPA, Fossil Fuel Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Houston Flooding, Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Irma, NOAA, Paris Climate Accord, Renewable Energy, Trump on Climate Change
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Extreme Category 5 Storms Are Really Category 6 and Dorian Gusts are Category 7
Storms of 185 mph winds have attained what should be labeled Category 6. The gusts of 220 mph have attained what should be Category 7. Hurricane Wind Strength Increases as the Square of the Velocity We show the relative force … Continue reading
Is the US Really the Strongest That It Has Ever Been?
Is the US Really the Strongest That It Has Ever Been? Well,Trump has pumped up the military budget for the last two budgets. And the weapons systems have been progressed. But the military is only one of many technological, environmental, … Continue reading
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Fifteen Republican States Will Suffer the Most Climate Change in This Century
Fifteen Republican States Will Suffer the Most Climate Change in This Century This has one exception, of the inclusion of the Democratic state of Hawaii. A study by the Brookings Institute Metropolitan Policy Program shows in the figure below that … Continue reading
Slides from the NOAA/NASA Annual Global Analysis for 2018
Slides from the NOAA/NASA Annual Global Analysis for 2018 The NASA author is Gavin A. Schmidt, and the NOAA author is Derek Arendt. I have put photos of the graphs from the above analysis on a Flickr album NOAA/NASA Annual … Continue reading
World, US, and California Flood Maps
World, US, and California Flood Maps We use the online Climate Central flood map data at ss2.climatecentral.org to generate flood maps for California, the US, and the World. In general, we start with the 6 foot flood maps, and go … Continue reading
Trump’s West Coast Trifecta of Doom
Trump’s West Coast Trifecta of Doom Three environmental topics that I wanted to write about are now, in time and space, all connected, and all point to one villain: Trump. The three topics start with Trump’s toadying denial of climate … Continue reading
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Warming of Land, the Northern Hemisphere, and the USA through 2017
We can now update warming through 2017. While the global warming numbers are important, we live on land. We grow our crops on land. The forests and plants that transform our generated CO2 back to Oxygen using photosynthesis are mainly … Continue reading