Sentences with phrase «in hurricane expert»

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The increased cost at the pump is due to higher demand, the lingering effect of Hurricane Harvey, OPEC production cuts and unrest in the Middle East, according to experts.

An expert witness testified that portable coolers actually made things worse in a Hollywood, Fla. nursing home where patients died without air conditioning during Hurricane Irma.

John Mutter, a disaster expert at Columbia University who studied the death toll in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, told Vox that he suspects the death toll in Puerto Rico from Maria will reach into the hundreds.

The experts I spoke to all said there's no simple explanation for the number of hurricanes that can form in a given year.

According to storm surge expert Dr. Hal Needham, Hurricane Donna also brought a storm tide of 4 - 8 feet in Biscayne Bay, just south of Miami, and we can expect that Irma might bring similar water levels.

Experts say that while the number of storms per year is steady, stronger hurricanes have increased in recent decades.

The «Hurricane Harvey Recovery: How Donors Can Help» webinar on August 29, 2017, gathered several expert panelists to discuss catastrophic flooding in Texas and Louisiana, and how to allocate resources — human, financial, and technical — to meet the needs of Hurricane Harvey - affected communities.

«Kids are very intuitive and perceptive,» says child development and parenting expert Denise Daniels, who has helped children around the globe cope with losses as a result of tragedies such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.

The experts will train school staff on the island in psychological first aid so they can help students there still suffering emotionally in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

Hurricane Maria's destruction on Puerto Rico could spawn one of the largest mass migration events in the United States» recent history, experts say, as tens of thousands of storm victims flee the island territory to rebuild their lives on the U.S. mainland.

He's now one of the leading experts in forecasting the Atlantic hurricane season.

The research by hydrologists and land - use experts at Rice University and Texas A&M University at Galveston was published in the journal Natural Hazards Review just days before Hurricane / Tropical Storm Harvey inundated the Houston region and caused some of the most catastrophic flooding in U.S. history.

Climate experts have long warned that global warming could bring an increase in extreme weather, such as hurricanes and drought.

A confluence of factors, including abundant sinking air and dry air, and possibly dust flowing out of North Africa's Sahara desert, kept a lid on hurricane formation in 2013, according to many cyclone experts.

The reason for the quiet season is the stable air in the deep tropical parts of the basin that are «the best «bang for your buck» regions, so to speak, for getting strong typhoons,» hurricane expert Phil Klotzbach, of Colorado State University, said in an email.

Continued expert reaction to Hurricane Harvey including reports of an explosion at a chemical plant in Houston as a result of the flooding.

Experts point to a few things: Texas homes near the Gulf regularly get battered by storm and hurricane damage, and crime in the big cities and border towns also drives up rates.

Veterinary and disaster relief experts will provide direct care in the areas impacted by Hurricane Matthew

In the meantime, here are some potentially lifesaving tips from the team's experts to keep yourself, your family, and your pets safe during a hurricane:

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The «others» mentioned in «Gray, and others» are in fact highly qualified hurricane experts with substantial expertise and a significant history of publication in respected journals.

Whatever the relationship between hurricanes and climate, experts say, hurricanes are hitting the coasts, and houses should not be built in their path.

That reminds me of the statement that 10 prominent climate and hurricane experts issued in 2006 (which I wrote on, but was hardly covered elsewhere).

Brian McNoldy, a hurricane expert at Colorado State, provided more detail on the storm in an e-mail update:

In 2005, leading hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel (MIT) published an analysis showing that the power of Atlantic hurricanes has strongly increased over the past decades, in step with temperaturIn 2005, leading hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel (MIT) published an analysis showing that the power of Atlantic hurricanes has strongly increased over the past decades, in step with temperaturin step with temperature.

George Marshall, an expert on climate and communication, has just done that, in an important, if sobering, essay weighing the climate discourse around Hurricane Sandy against what he learned in recent interviews with a variety of people in Bastrop County, Texas, the suburban - exurban region east of Austin that experienced a stunning outbreak of wildfires in September 2011.

The coverage linking these storms to warming oceans resulted in a backlash when some hurricane experts disputed the assertions made to the media.

With this storm and the long gap since the last coastal hit in mind, I sent a query to half a dozen experts on tropical cyclones and their impacts, asking them to assess the gap in land - falling hurricanes and the conditions, including simple chance, that favor ravaged or spared coasts.

As a result, in late 2004 one federal hurricane expert, Christopher Landsea, withdrew in protest from the climate - review process at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, leading to stories on a dispute over climate science.

Also influential was a computer study, Knutson and Tuleya (2004), and a leading expert's insistence, in response to the violent 2004 storm season, that «hurricanes are changing,» Trenberth (2005).

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And here again Trenberth has hyped global warming links to hurricane destruction in contrast to the opinions of many the hurricane experts.

In keeping with the long - term framework required by climate science, hurricane experts like Chris Landsea, the late Bill Gray and Jim O'Brien have consistently reported there are no links between global warming and hurricanes.

In fact, MIT hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel first proposed in Emanuel (1987) that warmer sea surface temperatures should lead to stronger hurricaneIn fact, MIT hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel first proposed in Emanuel (1987) that warmer sea surface temperatures should lead to stronger hurricanein Emanuel (1987) that warmer sea surface temperatures should lead to stronger hurricanes.

Nor is it merely that Maria, probably the most destructive hurricane in the island's history, is the kind of event that climate change experts have long warned would be among the risks facing coastal areas as the planet warms.

As the northeast coast mourns and struggles in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the U.S. death toll nears 100 and experts estimate up to $ 20 billion in total insured damages.

Hurricane expert Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. explained: «Sandy was terrible, but we're currently in a relative hurricane «Hurricane expert Prof. Roger Pielke Jr. explained: «Sandy was terrible, but we're currently in a relative hurricane «hurricane «drought.

And I don't know about you, «Justtellthetruth», but in my view characterizing Roger Pielke Jr. as a «hurricane expert» when Peike doesn't even hold a science degree while moreover also not mentioning the fact that Pielke is a prominent global warming «skeptic» does not constitute reliable and balanced reporting.

The blatant contradiction with real experts in the field caused him no pause when he rushed to set up a press conference in 2004 to gain maximum advantage from «a busy hurricane season».

Meanwhile, even if experts are calling it «luck» that Florida went more than a decade without hurricane landfall, that aberration itself fits the profile of climate change: In general, climate scientists who focus on hurricanes expect slightly fewer storms, but warn that the ones that do form will be more powerful.

In other words, the link between stronger hurricanes and global warming is a theory (expert judgment) and is not a conclusion of the IPCC.

Actually, no, argues hurricane expert Roger Pielke, Jr. in a Wall Street Journal column.

So the expert group from the World Meteorological Organization says that they can not detect any change in the number of hurricanes from normal in the past.

2004 had been a busy hurricane season in the US and the media was happy to report that people claiming to be experts saw a global warming connection.

Kevin Trenberth, who is not a hurricane expert, had participated in a press conference in which the media and the public were led to believe that a link exists between global warming and more intense hurricanes.

The hurricane expert from Florida State University would be on the island in October for an insurance - sponsored conference on climate change.

McIntyre is especially aggrieved that Peter Webster, a hurricane expert at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, was recently provided with data that had been refused to him.

However, as repeated catastrophes — such as Harvey, Maria, Katrina in 2005, and Sandy in 2012 — reveal a worrying lack of resilience in US infrastructure, experts encourage people in hurricane - prone areas to prepare for the worst.

Here's what climate scientists do know, according to hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: In years when the sea - surface temperatures are relatively high, the big storms are more plentiful and more powerful.

Hank roberts on youtube check out exploring energy hurricanes where a NASA scientist and hurricane expert doscusses how the top of hurricanes radiate heat to space, form in oceans cause upwelling and thus cool oceans.