Sentences with phrase «change after the hurricanes»

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

Not exact matches

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After reporting on Hurricane Sandy, he broke the story of how the city planned a multibillion dollar effort to increase its resistance to climate change, and reported from the Netherlands on how the Dutch prepare for higher sea levels.

For many of us, the job's biggest impact is in the district, helping the constituents who hire us.I have been proud to work with colleagues and community leaders to secure millions for public housing, new waterfront parks and flood resiliency after Hurricane Sandy; make local improvements, like bringing a pool to enliven Brooklyn Bridge Park and cherry trees to beautify Chinatown; and advocate for constituents in need — to save a home, pay for life - changing surgery or cut through bureaucratic red tape.

«We can now use our data from Manhattan after Super Storm Sandy to make predictions about how diversity may change in Houston after Hurricane Harvey and in the urban centers of Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, among other areas affected by these storms.»

But Foley hopes that, after the election, Hurricane Sandy will spur a long - term discussion about climate change and extreme weather events.

But Tran noticed a change in their attitudes after Hurricane Harvey struck Houston, a city that welcomed many New Orleans refugees in 2005.

Healthy coral reefs usually bounce back after a hurricane passes through, but climate change can make reefs less resilient, scientists say.

While knowing how hurricanes in general may change in a warmer world is important, the questions asked after a disaster like Katrina tend to be far more specific.

Trump appeared to have changed her outfit mid-flight when she arrived in Florida after Hurricane Irma.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new report on New Orleans schools after Hurricane Katrina finds the school system substantially changed from its condition five years ago.

Efforts to reinvent public education in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina have drawn such interest that it's easy to lose sight of some very concrete changes that will become obvious over time: A generation of brand - new school buildings is rising across the city.

In fact, we come to the same conclusion in both analyses: the expected increase in student outcomes after the hurricanes due to population change is no more than 0.02 to 0.06 standard deviations, or about 10 percent of the difference - in - differences estimates in Figure 1.

We realized after the impact storms from Hurricane Harvey had that it was the right time to make this change that will allow us to respond more specifically to the needs and safety of our students, families and staff.

NEW ORLEANS — A Tulane University institute that studies changes in public education in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina announced the resignation of its executive director Monday, weeks after retracting a study on the city's public high schools.

After a hurricane devastates a small town in upstate New York, the lives of three women and their young children are irrevocably changed.

NEW ORLEANS — Climate change made the torrential rains that flooded Houston after Hurricane Harvey last summer much worse, scientists reported Wednesday.

Colorado received a lot of heartworm - positive dogs after Hurricane Katrina, but the actual rate of heartworm infection in the state is less than 3 % and has not changed significantly in decades.]

Stephen Watson, Executive Vice President and COO of The National WWII Museum, sits down with Peter to talk about how the museum has changed its approach after Hurricane Katrina, and details the museum's work to tell the real story of WWII.

He noted it's telling that even 12 nursing home resident deaths of heat - related illness after Hurricane Irma — all classified as homicides — were not enough to spur industry change.

After seeing the immense impact of the hurricanes, I came back to Philadelphia and completely changed what I was making.

In an interview at The Times last week, Fox said his focus on human - driven climate change emerged as he grappled, after that small fracking success, with the unrelenting demand for fossil fuels and emerging impacts of warming temperatures, made emblematic by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Without going into excruciating detail, economists are not saying that hurricanes are making us better off, or that there'd be no costs attributable to climate change, if GDP in the year 2100 were 99 % composed of reconstructing housing after hurricanes.

But a strong signal is found in proportions of both weaker and stronger hurricanes: the proportion of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has increased at a rate of ~ 25 — 30 % per °C of global warming after accounting for analysis and observing system changes.

Partisanship by NOAA administrators on the climate change - hurricane debate followed the partisanship by NOAA National Weather Service on climate change - skeptic debate by 12 years which started just after the Gore book on global warming book came out.

The recent «Time» article (13 April 2006), after giving a list of recent extreme events (Cyclone Larry, forest fires in Indonesia, Hurricane Katrina, etc) presented as being caused by climate change, then states «the serious debate has quietly ended».

As the United States cleans up after one major hurricane and braces for another, optimists note that all this destruction could yield one positive result: As we experience bigger and more powerful storms — just as the models predicted — perhaps we'll finally come to grips with climate change.

Chapter 1.3.8, for example, contains a discussion of the possible relationship between climate change and the increased incidence of natural disasters, which, after Hurricane Katrina in the United States, have now become a politically charged issue.

On the question of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry out the types of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models run for relatively short times.

Dr. Chris Landsea (a supporter of the natural variability explanation), even resigned in January 2005 as a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), after the co-ordinating lead author for his section, Dr. Kevin Trenberth (a supporter of the man - made global warming explanation) held a press conference, implying that the IPCC considered the high hurricane activity of 2004 to be related to man - made global warming.

After all, it is immaterial if a hurricane is marginally more intense due to climate change than it would otherwise have been; the route to resilience is the same regardless.

Four years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, the city is recovering and the parts of Louisiana and Mississippi that were damaged are physically different, but not so much that it qualifies as a local change of climate.

And after Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the East Coast in October 2012 — one of the strongest hurricanes to ever make landfall north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina — tweets analyzed through the Hedonometer revealed that Twitter users subsequently experienced one of the most morose months surrounding climate change discussion.

That 5 years after Hurricane Katrina the main meteorological group is saying that they do not detect a change in the number of hurricanes is strong evidence that Hurricane Katrina was a totally natural event.

After a U.S. Presidential Election where not a single moderator in four debates asked a question on climate change — an issue that many scientists and world leaders see as the globe's most pressing — Hurricane Sandy changed everything, at least in the short - term.

President Donald Trump said last week that his views on climate change haven't changed even after witnessing the impacts of Hurricane Harvey and Irma on millions of Americans.

Especially for measuring the change in green from before the hurricane to brown immediately after the hurricane, to greening up over weeks and months after the hurricane.

In 2014, we released a video calling on the World Meteorological Organization to rename hurricanes — which are becoming more intense due to climate change — after climate deniers.

Emanuel, an equally respected researcher, emerged as a preeminent voice on climate change's potential dangers after he published a paper three weeks before Katrina that suggested global warming might be making hurricanes more powerful.

After years of being stuck, the national conversation on climate change finally started to shift — just a little — last year, the hottest year on record in the U.S., with Hurricane Sandy flooding the New York subway, drought devastating Midwest farms, and California and Colorado on fire.

As Texas and Florida rebuild after Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, they should plan for future climate change and design infrastructure that can respond to and recover from extreme events.

After having Hurricane Andrew destroy my home in 1992, that changed to me treasuring vintage things and antiques.

We were only there for a short time right after Hurricane Irma and Diane was so wonderful to deal with regarding the reservation and last minute changes that had to be made due to the storm.