Sentences with phrase «support hurricane research»
During Tuesday's briefing, NOAA administrator Conrad Lautenbacher Jr. highlighted the $ 300 million the US is spending to support hurricane research and operational forecasting.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science has made a $ 10,000 donation to the AAAS Caribbean Division to help the Puerto Rican scientific research enterprise respond to extensive rebuilding challenges left by the destructive force of Hurricane Maria, encouraging others to also support efforts.
A group of risk experts is proposing a new framework and research agenda that they believe will support the most effective public warnings when a hurricane, wildfire, toxic chemical spill or any other environmental hazard threatens safety.
That budget provision doesn't jibe with bipartisan - supported Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017, which the President signed into law last month and which states that «NOAA must plan and maintain a project to improve hurricane forecasting.»
There are a variety of reasons that the media tend to pay outsize attention to research developments that support a «hot» conclusion (like the theory that hurricanes have already been intensified by human - caused global warming) and glaze over on research of equivalent quality that does not.
The first idea is supported by published research suggesting an increasing frequency of late - season storms like Sandy (persisting into November or later), and the latter is simply a deduction from principles of physics: If oceans are hotter, hurricanes are more likely to be able to travel north out of the tropics and still have their energy source sustained.
It is important to stress that there are many factors which impact hurricanes, and NOAA supports and values a wide variety of research which will help to identify those factors and theirimpact on hurricane frequency and / or intensity.»
In fact, a June 27 study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) supported the link Gore suggested between global warming and the strong 2005 North Atlantic hurricane season.