Sentences with phrase «things like hurricanes»

It's the interest in these natural oscillations and what impact they may have on things like hurricanes that led us to investigate these proxy data.

So we have a much better understanding of things like hurricanes now than we ever used to, and in retrospect, it's really clear that anything that could have been brought to bear on the problem, back in the «50s and «60s, really, there's no chance that we would have been able to affect that.

So, starting on February 28th, I will be debuting as the host of a new series on the Weather Channel called Hacking the Planet, and this is a series in which, each week, the format is I take a look at some kind of big natural threat, things like hurricanes and tornadoes and earthquakes and the like, and I explore what we understand, the science of how these things work and where they came from and how they stop and then we figure out, well, how can we use this knowledge to our advantage.

While some horrible things like the hurricane Irma or international political issues like the ones in Turkey have occurred, we've also made great steps forward.

Crises are never accidents, aside from things like Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy.

This is not to say for a minute that we shouldn't be looking for trends in things like hurricane intensity, just that finding or not finding a trend at this time doesn't prove a whole lot.

Not exact matches

«Generally speaking, the US gets about a D + for things like this,» Vivek Shandas, an urban - planning professor at Portland State University, told Business Insider after the fall's triple threat of hurricanes lashed Puerto Rico and mainland US.

«God's plan» is the way that Christians traditionally explain things like amputations, cancer, hurricanes and car accidents.

Well what to do if I thought for the moment that you eat every thing like us as fresh as a daisy... but as it seems you are all advanced in canned, packed and ready made foods... well in such case you will be prone to die from the foods preservatives if not from the hurricane...!

Free, ok seriously, my thoughts are that such things as hurricanes, typhoons and the lot, I often come to reasoning like I put forth early.

God's plan» is the way that Christians traditionally explain things like miscarriages, amputations, cancer, hurricanes and car accidents.

I saw a cultural Christianity with preachers who often gained audiences, locally in church meetings or globally on television, by saying crazy and buffoonish things, simply to stir up the base and to gain attention from the world, whether that was claiming to know why God sent hurricanes and terrorist attacks or claiming that American founders, one of whom possibly impregnated his own human slaves and literally cut the New Testament apart, were orthodox, Evangelical Christians who, like us, stood up for traditional family values.

But doing things like psychosocial support for families and children to help them recover kind of mentally and emotionally from what they've experienced, cash - for - work programs that will do things like building latrines and bathing facilities in the camps, which is a practical need but also does help if the rains come or hurricanes come.

«As communities in New York recover from Hurricane Irene, will Representative Chris Gibson let his Republican Leadership hold disaster relief funding until draconian cuts are made to things like Medicare and education?»

She noted that following Hurricane Sandy, there are issues «pending in Washington» like addressing FEMA flood maps and reforming the flood insurance program, things that Grimm was working on and that need to be addressed by the next congressperson, she said.

So one thing, for example, is, as you might imagine, Fidel Castro got very annoyed at the idea that we might be doing something like trying to steer hurricanes because he was worried we were going to use them as a weapon — an incredible weapon for devastating Cuba, so he was convinced that's what we were trying to do.

So some of the kinds of questions that look into are, for example, the bigger end of things, questions like, well, would it be possible for us to do something like stop a hurricane or steer it so that it would hit a less vulnerable part of the coast?

You know, a human being has something about her that is shared by a mosquito, in [an] elephants, in [an] orchid, but which is not shared by other things in nature, like a hurricane or a rock.

When I adopted two kittens from a shelter a couple of weeks ago — both as adorable as anything can possibly be, but with the relentless destructive energy of two tiny hurricanes — I didn't realize that I was bucking a trend: America's pet population is dropping, apparently (like so many things today) a casualty of our uncertain economy.

On the other hand I like Dr Curries approach, which seem to have picked up a global trend in cyclones, but I wont be surprised if cyclone studies including hurricanes fall into Dr Lindzen's dolldrums (the only thing he constantly argues correctly is a diminishing equator to Pole temp difference slowing eveything down).

Given that a hurricane removes something like 5 * 10 ^ 19 joules per day from the ocean (http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/D7.html), I too am curious as to hurricanes» purpose in Mother Nature's scheme of things.

By comparison, the US 2014 budget for weather research (things like improved hurricane track / intensity prediction) was $ 82 million.

Just like the tornado shelter in the midwest or the hurricane shutters and seals for your home along the coast, you invest in these things and hope that you never ever have to use them.

And that CO2 will warm the planet, and cause all kinds of nasty things to happen like: sea level rise, famine, war, climate refugees, mass extinctions, drought, floods, hurricanes, diseases, on and on, so on and so forth.

Many things like droughts, floods, severe storms, hurricanes, and even heatwaves may not change from global warming at all (and indeed, that's what the evidence indicates so far).

Things like sea level rise, wave heights, high and low water in rivers, hurricane tracks, and storm surges are all based on historical data with the occasional consideration of possible extremes events based on theory.

Things like increasing temperatures, accelerating sea level rise and worsening hurricanes.

Even when the scary things are not caused by Climate change, like Hurricane Katrina.

As Christine McEntee, president of the American Geophysical Union, explained here, NASA's Earth programs have been used for things like: confronting the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, monitoring dangerous algal blooms that threaten coastal communities, assessing air quality and water availability, predicting floods, responding to earthquakes, and tracking tornadoes and hurricanes.

The coming election is about as unpredictable as things get, like the track of the eye of a hurricane approaching land, which this election resembles somewhat.

This includes things like storm damage, hitting an animal, tornadoes, hurricanes, and other acts of nature.

Although Gretna is a statistically safe place to raise a family, it's important to remember that things can sometimes go wrong and you need to protect yourself and your property from common threats like hurricanes and theft.

That way you are sure to get the most you can from your renters insurance company because it does help for them to be able to see what things were like before the damage occurred, whether it was done by hurricane or by another event.

This includes things like storm damage, water damage, earthquakes, landslides, tornados and hurricanes.

There are several perils and incidents that Southeast Memphis renters insurance will protect against which includes things like storm damage, rain, ice and hail damage, some natural disasters including landslides, tornadoes and hurricanes as well as things like theft and fire.

It helps give image to things like natural disasters, such as Hurricane Harvey or the Skirball Fire in California last year.

I like so many things... the nativity hurricane candleholder trio, the ever - grateful memo board, the book crops, and the give thanks wooden caddy are my favorites at the moment.