Hurricane Florence will likely lead to unimaginable disaster, but the storm has also a beautiful side. Sources Alexander Gersthttps://twitter.com/Astro_Alex Additional footage via NASA Music by Epic Stock Media http://epicstockmedia.com
Amy Goodman from Democracy Now interviews Mike Mann on Hurricane Florence, and the connection to climate change. How the weaker jet stream comes in. My colleagues have shown the weakening over the past decades here in Science https://twitter.com/rahmstorf/status/1039618555128557569 Watch the full interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OuVTEfBatY
The Brunswick nuclear power plant is a couple of miles near Wilmington, at the Ocean. With model forecasting Hurricane Florence to potentially making landfall near the site. Sources “Are Coastal Nuclear Power Plants Ready for Sea-Level Rise?” https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/are-coastal-nuclear-power-plants-ready-for-sea-level-rise/ Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick_Nuclear_Generating_Station
Music by Kaempfer and Dietze, “Shear Force” BUY the track here https://www.beatport.com/track/shear-force-original-mix/5214631 Featuring, Noam Chomsky, Mike Mann, Rockström, Patrick T Brown, David Spratt, Kerry Emanuel #Protonica
Florence could threaten East Coast as a major hurricane this week https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/09/us/florence-tropical-storm-hurricane-forecast-wxc Kerry Emanuel, Expert on Strong Hurricanes and the Future (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5kWuVHQxfA Allan Huffman https://twitter.com/RaleighWx/status/1038741033364975616 Robert Fanney, Meteorological Consensus for Florence Landfall Builds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze1PpAC4ruY NHC Atlantic https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic Ryan Maue https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1038629383005765632 Fearsome Five: Florence, Helene, Isaac, Olivia, and Mangkhut https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Fearsome-Five-Florence-Helene-Isaac-Olivia-and-Mangkhut Governor Henry McMaster, Statewide Officials…
The Devastating 2017 Hurricane Season: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions for the Weather Enterprise. Kerry Emanuel: Connections to Climate and Future Research Opportunities (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lf8nb0wo28 MIT’s Kerry Emanuel on Climate and Stronger Hurricanes (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHS7bV9o5VA Tropical cyclones and climate change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclones_and_climate_change Lightning: A New Essential Climate Variable https://eos.org/project-updates/lightning-a-new-essential-climate-variable
Elon Musk is a business magnet, investor and engineer. Watch the full Joe Rogan Experience #1169 – Elon Musk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI
This compilation with key excerpts by prominent scientists features Michael Mann, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, António Guterres, David Spratt, and James Hansen. #EnvironmentNaturalResourceSecurity Climate One, Climate Change and the Threat to Civilization with Michael Mann (2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WiiP2KTRXg Veerabhadran Ramanathan: Climate change morphing into an existential problem (2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmmFwfF8Gig World Economic Forum: Humanity’s most existential risks are getting…
Thirty years ago, NASA scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that the age of climate change had arrived. Ashley Byrne interviews Jim Hansen for DW (published August 24, 2018) https://www.dw.com/en/worldlink-meet-mr-climate-change/av-45197919 Hansen et al 1981 https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha04600x.html Hansen et al 1988 https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha02700w.html From the Archives, 1988: Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015-paris-climate-talks/from-the-archives-1988-global-warming-has-begun-expert-tells-senate STUDY FINDS WARMING…