Sentences with phrase «limit on hurricane»

But I understand that the authors here were arguing towards and effective upper limit on hurricane strength.

Not exact matches

Yet as long as we indulge a fatalism that says we can not know the day or the hour when hurricanes will come, so we should limit our efforts simply to what we can do on that day and during that hour, we leave ourselves open to more injury and pain.

Cobra was selected alongside Whitefish Energy Services in the aftermath of the hurricane, but the deals drew scrutiny from Congress because the companies had limited experience in grid repair on such a large scale.

There were several possible catalysts suggested for this spike in concerns about a favorable outcome of the debt ceiling negotiation, which has to be concluded ahead of the Treasury's X Date, now expected as early as October 1: some cited Steven Mnuchin's interview on CNBC, in which the Treasury Secretary said that the additional spending needed to help Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey may reduce the amount of time Congress has to increase the federal debt limit; another possibility was month - end liquidity needs and relative positioning across the curve.

The House will send a three - month stopgap government spending bill, debt - limit hike and aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey to President Trump's desk on Friday.

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.

Low - lying island states and other countries vulnerable to rising sea levels, floods and hurricanes have been putting pressure on developed countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions and keep the rise in temperatures to within a limit of 2C this century.

I live in a hurricane prone area, and I have shared the experience of many others who have discovered suddenly that Nature can overwhelm all of their perceived limits on Nature's powers and all the fancied protections they thought afforded by modern technology.

In July, The Times published an Op - Ed article by Adam Sobel of Columbia University on a Science paper he co-authored finding that air pollution may be temporarily limiting an expected boost in hurricane power in a warming climate.

Back in 1987, I wrote the first paper on the topic of how climate change might influence hurricanes, showing that the thermodynamic «speed limit» on hurricane winds would increase as the climate warms.

If the victims of Hurricane Harvey can access out - of - state lawyers for free legal services and no one claims that the quality of those services will be harmful to those victims, or even simply inadequate, then on what basis can it be legitimate to deny the victims access to out - of - state lawyers on a fee - paying basis in a more competitive marketplace than one that is limited to Texas lawyers only?

Insurance companies stop issuing policies and increasing limits on existing policies when hurricanes are near.

Impact of Hurricane Harvey off the US Gulf Coast, though so far the impact on markets appear to be limited; 2.