Sentences with phrase «reduce hurricane damage»

You should also be aware that Florida law requires insurance companies to offer discounts or credits for existing building features or home improvements that reduce hurricane damage and loss.

Not exact matches

September 2017 — Present / Virgin Islands On September 6, Hurricane Irma slammed into the US Virgin Islands as a category 5 hurricane.The islands suffered severe wind and flood damage, reducing many areas to rubble.

For example, many Northeast homes were damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, resulting in reduced values of many of these homes.

But if, as many climate scientists predict, hurricanes become more common or more severe, the added forest damage that will occur in the US and elsewhere could reduce that offset substantially.

According to Stanford Professor Mark Jacobson, offshore wind turbines could reduce onshore damage from hurricanes without sustaining significant damage themselves.

While cities and the Army Corps of Engineers sometimes mine them to shore up eroding beaches, they may want to reconsider: Those sandbars might slow down hurricanes, reducing the damage to communities along the shoreline.

Scientists, engineers and others who study extreme weather have proposed numerous ways to reduce the suffering and damage inflicted by hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, deluges, droughts and such.

The Caribbean, Florida, and the Southern States are accustomed to hurricanes, and awareness is now greater along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. Over the years well - developed hurricane monitoring, education and response procedures have greatly reduced loss of life and infrastructure damage.

However much resettlement might reduce US hurricane damages, it will have little effect on many of the other dangers of AGW.

[Response: And also factor in that reduction in hurricane damage is not the only, or even the major, benefit of GHG control, and perhaps also the fact that it's not entirely clear that a smart implementation of Kyoto would actually «cost» anything, given ancillary benefits of energy efficiency and health benefits from reduced or cleaner coal burning.

If current settlement trends continue, and a dramatic increase in hurricane preparedness does not occur, the fact that settlement trends are the dominant factor will mean that hurricane damages will most likely continue to increase even if GHG emissions are reduced to zero.

Try increasing the savings from hurricane damage in the future with every ppm of CO2 that is reduced on a yearly basis.

If we're considering the risk of hurricane damages, and not just overall basin activity, then the effect of increased vertical wind shear would seem to be (at least) twofold — it not only reduces potential intensity, but it also influences the steering of hurricanes (since hurricanes are basically steered by the background flow plus a beta drift).

This will not (by itself) reduce US hurricane damages; it will only prevent US hurricane damages from rising as fast as they would have if GHG emissions went on «as usual».

The feasibility of this idea, using climate engineering to reduce the frequency or intensity of damaging hurricanes, or to steer a storm once it is formed, is not clear.

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Using a modern tropical cyclone model (simulating the famous hurricane Andrew of 1992, which was forecast to make landfall around Miami) they find cyclone modification is indeed theoretically capable of reducing hurricane development and storm damage.

These initiatives led to adaptation efforts, including elevating infrastructure, restoring green spaces, and developing evacuation plans that helped reduce damage and save lives during Irene and Sandy (also see discussion of Hurricane Sandy in Ch.

For instance, after storm surges from Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage to New York City, NY (USA) in October 2012, it convinced the Mayor of New York City, Mike Bloomberg that man - made global warming is real and that we should immediately reduce our carbon dioxide emissions:

Paraphrasing Dr. Landsea, the fixation on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the Obama - era Clean Power Plan is delaying actions that could and should be done today to mitigate the inevitable catastrophic hurricane damages.

«The turbines will also reduce damage if a hurricane comes through,» Jacobson said.

But, even in just a brief period of reduced fishing which resulted from damage caused by a hurricane, scores of newborn dolphins hint that what's bad for the fishing industry may be good for everything else.

Common concerns are fighting for GMO labeling in VT, reducing and cleaning up plastics, composting, and restoring the riparian zone damaged by Hurricane Irene.

May I suggest that an experiment of seeding potential hurricanes with dust particles might be worthwhile to prevent or reduce the damage that they cause on tropical islands and land masses.

In the unlikely event that the wind causes damage to your personal property at the speeds it would be reduced to by the time it got that far inland, wind damage from the hurricane could be covered.

Broker analysts who reviewed both reports agreed that our county's hurricane building code standards and quality craftsmanship by local builders helped to greatly reduce the amount of major structural damage in the area.