Not exact matches
According to the World Health Organization, older adults who live at home face disproportionally high fatality rates during natural disasters
as evidenced by
Hurricane Katrina where 71 per cent
of the deaths
resulting from that disaster involved people over 60
years of age.
The
results of the study, published today in the journal Nature, show that over the last 30
years, tropical cyclones — also known
as hurricanes or typhoons — are moving poleward at a rate
of about 33 miles per decade in the Northern Hemisphere and 38 miles per decade in the Southern Hemisphere.
To get a sense for how this probability, or risk
of such a storm, will change in the future, he performed the same analysis, this time embedding the
hurricane model within six global climate models, and running each model from the
years 2081 to 2100, under a future scenario in which the world's climate changes
as a
result of unmitigated growth
of greenhouse gas emissions.
Witness Chris Landsea
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who resigned from the IPCC this
year because he believed an IPCC top
hurricane scientist wrongly linked severe
hurricanes to global warming;
as a
result, he wrote, «the IPCC process has been subverted and compromised, its neutrality lost.»
More than a dozen Texas chemical and refining plants reported damaged storage tanks, ruptured containment systems and malfunctioning pressure relief valves
as a
result of Hurricane Harvey, portending safety problems that might not become apparent for months or
years, according to a Houston Chronicle review
of regulatory filings.
«My interaction (over the
years) with a broad segment
of AMS members (that I have met
as a
result of my seasonal
hurricane forecasting and other activities) who have spent a sizable portion
of their careers down in the meteorological trenches
of observations and forecasting, have indicated that a majority
of them do not agree that humans are the primary cause
of global warming.
Among the economic costs climate change is expected to enact on the United States over the next 25
years are: $ 35 million in annual property losses from
hurricanes and other coastal storms, $ 12 billion a
year as a
result of heat wave - driven demand for electricity, and tens
of billions
of dollars from the corn and wheat industry due to a 14 percent drop in crop yields.