Sentences with phrase «future hurricanes»

Further investigation with more advanced models is needed for more confident projections of future hurricane activity in a warming climate.

However, their predictions about future hurricane changes differ somewhat.

So the policy idea is to greatly reduce GHGs so as to reduce future hurricane intensity (& use savings from those reductions to storm - proof buildings).

Also not factored in to the results of this study is sea level rise, which is considered the surest influence of warming on future hurricane impacts.

Mayor Bill de Blasio visited the Red Hook Initiative this afternoon, holding a press conference to urge New Yorkers to prepare for future hurricanes and other disasters.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to build a buried seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, as well as a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach to protect Staten Island from future Hurricane Sandy - like storms.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just completed the first of three phases to build the seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, and a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach to protect Staten Island from future Hurricane Sandy - like storms.

[The MIT] study used six newly upgraded global climate computer models to simulate future hurricane activity around the world.

Governor Cuomo says he won't allow a natural gas transfer station to be built off of the coast of Long Island, saying there are too many concerns, including damage form future hurricanes, and potential terrorism.

The data also may be used to update estimates of future hurricane risk developed by the Army Corps of Engineers and used to design levees in New Orleans.

While the question of what role, if any, humans have had in all this is still a matter of intense debate, most scientists agree that stronger storms are likely to be the norm in future hurricane seasons.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - After years of planning, the money is finally flowing in for a buried seawall project along the East Shore of Staten Island to protect against future Hurricane Sandy - like storms.

To simulate future hurricanes, Reindert Haarsma of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in De Bilt and colleagues ran a detailed climate model for 2094 to 2098, assuming modest future greenhouse gas emissions.

According to the Times - Picayune's Mark Schleifstein, the study will combine NCAR's powerful computer models and estimates of future greenhouse gas production to predict future hurricane activity.

One of the report's co-authors, Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva, of the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool, UK, said their approach was novel because previous studies had used climate models to forecast future hurricane frequency.

«Long Island Republicans and state senators should refuse to accept or return the money from megadonors that are guaranteeing future Hurricane Sandys on Long Island,» Goins said.

«Finally, we applied this relationship to thousands of potential future hurricane tracks that could affect the Eastern United States until 2100 under different levels of global warming.»

Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) now analyzed the magnitude of future hurricane losses in relation to economic growth.

However, the frequency of future hurricanes remains difficult to forecast because of conflicting data produced by existing long - term climate models, Holland said.

His Climategate fame is derived from his concern about a «travesty» that «we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment,» in addition to his other failed predictions such as future hurricane horrors while administering discipline as one of the scientific journal brown shirts.

SAN FRANCISCO — A «black swan» cyclone may sound like the latest comic book hero, but this «extreme of the extremes» is the result of climate models that suggest global warming will make future hurricanes more intense.

Gray has been gazing into the crystal ball since 1984 to divine future hurricane activity with remarkable accuracy.

There are good justifications for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but having an discernable influence on future hurricane dmaages is not among them.

At 2 p.m., environmental justice advocates, community groups, and city officials will meet to stage an emergency drill to test and evaluate community preparedness for future hurricanes and other major climate disasters, THE POINT Community Development Corp., 940 Garrison Ave., the Bronx.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he won't allow a natural gas transfer station to be built off of the coast of Long Island, saying there are too many concerns, including damage form future hurricanes, and potential terrorism.

The plan calls for a buried seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, and a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach to protect Staten Island from future Hurricane Sandy - like storms.

Muir - Wood says cat modelers have always accepted the 100 - year average of history for forecasting future hurricanes.

Emanuel used the team's technique to model past and future hurricane activity for both the city of Houston and the state of Texas.

Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

This image shows the $ 579 million plan to protect the East Shore from future hurricanes.

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Bloomberg allocated $ 250 million to improve storm protections on the eastern shore of Staten Island and in other low - lying neighborhoods, as well as to ensure city agencies can continue their work during a future hurricane.

They found that future hurricanes formed further east in the tropical Atlantic, as that area had warmed sufficiently to provide enough heat and moisture to power them.

Garner and her team used climate models to simulate the paths of future hurricanes and what size storm surges they will produce.

A new study announced today will attempt to predict whether the number and intensity of future hurricanes will increase in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of global warming.

On Tuesday of this week, the supposedly conservative American Enterprise Institute held a discussion of the carbon tax, while the Brookings Institution has endorsed a carbon tax as a way to promote clean energy (and, presumably, to stave off future hurricanes) as well as to reduce the deficit.