Nevertheless, Trump administration spokespeople have sidestepped questions on the subject and criticized the media for asking
the question about Hurricane Harvey during the peak of the flooding.
The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was
questioned about the hurricane preparations of both Trump and the administration during Thursday's press briefing.
As for
your question about hurricanes, the argument given for the global mean hydrological cycle doesn't apply to the hurricane because the global mean argument assumes an equilibrium between radiative cooling and latent heat release.
Seriously, though, we have covered the unresolved
questions about hurricanes and warming carefully (an archive of articles is on our Times Topics page) and, I think, have already effectively conveyed the state of the science.
I look forward to answering
your question about hurricanes and climate at 2 PM EST..
We answer these questions and more below in our list of most frequently asked
questions about hurricanes and typhoons, along with a closer look at how these storms affect the Philippines in particular.
Check out our Hurricane Resource Center 2011 for
questions about hurricanes and how they relate to travel insurance protection.
Not exact matches
And in crisis — notably during Puerto Rico's 2017 bankruptcy, and the federal response to the devastation of the island by
Hurricane Maria — the inequality of Puerto Rico is often exposed, and
questions are asked again
about the Jones Act.
Ever since
Hurricane Maria landed in Puerto Rico, there have been a lot of
questions about just how many people have died.
When I remember the heartbreaking footage from
Hurricane Katrina, or think
about the awful situations in so many inner cities and in rural areas across the country, I
question whether or not our nation's wealth is really a «blessing from God,» as so many people claim.
But you won't know how to explain that there is nothing nominal or lukewarm or indifferent
about standing in this
hurricane of
questions every day and staring each one down until you've mustered all the bravery and fortitude and trust it takes to whisper just one of them out loud on the car ride home:
What I find most entertaining
about this is that this is only the first major
hurricane of the season, and already people are bringing the
question of faith into this equation.
Meeks has attracted scrutiny since a federal probe was launched over
questions — first raised by The Post —
about what became of money collected by a charity that he set up to help
Hurricane Katrina victims.
Critics have raised
questions about why the power authority opted not to request aid from mainland utilities after
Hurricane Maria struck the territory, knocking out power to almost all customers, on Sept. 20.
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Bell said that he and his office, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, have been fielding
questions about the August lull in Atlantic
hurricanes and whether it would cause his forecast team to soften its May and August outlooks, which concluded that the 2013 season had a 70 percent chance of being more active than normal.
Yet while the argument following Katrina lacked any satisfying resolution, today we may be getting closer to answering
questions about how a changing climate worsens
hurricanes.
This data set contains
questions about online dating and
Hurricane Katrina donations.
On March 2, readers
questioned two of Education Week's staff members who had recently toured
hurricane - ravaged areas of the Gulf Coast: Sarah Evans, the director of photography, and Alan Richard, a staff writer who covers many Southern states and has done extensive reporting
about last fall's storms and their effects on schooling.
It also raises big
questions about the city's experiment with independent charter schools, which have largely taken over public education in Orleans Parish since
Hurricane Katrina.
In the aftermath of
Hurricane Harvey, we know many impacted open - enrollment charter school operators are left with
questions about how to repair the damage and how to serve students displaced by the storm.
Tom: Since the two big
hurricanes, we've had countless
questions about flooded cars.
And, as I blogged recently, the media definitely have a tendency to get seduced by the «front page thought» when dealing with
questions about climate and, say,
hurricanes, and thus can miss the legitimate
questions still surrounding the science that explores links of that sort.
As I watched TV reports showing wind - driven waters sloshing over the floodwalls in several spots around New Orleans today, from a
hurricane whose highest surge missed the city, and as I read John Schwartz's sobering report from the Army Corps of Engineers war room, I couldn't help returning to a question that has dogged me since I wrote about the swamping of that storied city in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina — which, like Gustav, was not even close to a worst - ca
hurricane whose highest surge missed the city, and as I read John Schwartz's sobering report from the Army Corps of Engineers war room, I couldn't help returning to a
question that has dogged me since I wrote
about the swamping of that storied city in 2005 by
Hurricane Katrina — which, like Gustav, was not even close to a worst - ca
Hurricane Katrina — which, like Gustav, was not even close to a worst - case storm.
When a batch of climate scientists on all sides of the
hurricane - climate
question issued a letter warning that the main issue related to
hurricanes is coastal vulnerability, not climate change, I wrote
about it, but hardly anyone else did.
The climate community did a great service to the country in 2006 in putting out a joint statement on the enormous human vulnerability in coastal zones to
hurricanes — setting aside
questions about the role of greenhouse - driven warming in changing
hurricane patterns.
Pielke has been quoted in the mainstream media voicing concerns
about the IPCC, as in today's Wall Street Journal, as well as
questioning sloppy logic on the part of some environmentalists, for instance objecting to overstatements
about hurricanes being linked to global warming.
Back to the broader issue of whether climate models have been disproved, though: the
questions I've just written
about are all
about how climate change affects
hurricanes, and not
about the basic fact of human - induced climate change itself.
My work is in risk management and emergency preparedness, and my
question is
about model uncertainty for local and regional planners in
hurricane - prone regions.
Judith, you write that the passage I criticize was said in response to a
question posed by Science
about precautions for
hurricanes and you quote those
questions.
As scientific controversies go a single paper, a
hurricane specialist asking
questions about climate sensitivity on her blog and a post on the same blog by Webster (assuming this is what you're referring to) is some mighty weak sauce.
The big stumbling block on the
hurricane problem for this approach, to me, is the
question of initiation - I can think qualitatively
about how to look at SST and shear, so that good environments should be countable, but the initiation
question is hard.
In the Q & A, the first
question was
about climate /
hurricane connection and what appeared to be a NOAA shift relative to last year.
If you have
questions about what's covered, or what you should do when faced with a
hurricane, we can advise you.