Riders on the Storm
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- Riders on the Storm
- Accuracy of past hurricane counts good
- A Speaker Night Reflecting on Hurricane Katrina
- Caribbean hurricane: massive social disaster
- Riders on the Storm
- Fancy flavors in hot hot wings
Riders on the Storm
Atlantic Online – Nov 26, 2007
According to Bill Woodley one of the team members the storm’s water vapor would condense on the particles forming droplets too small to fall to Earth’s surface as rain. Instead the droplets would remain suspended rise and eventually evaporate thereby cooling the hot air just as wet skin is cooled in the breeze. Meanwhile a Boston-based team aims to attack a hurricane’s cold ceiling. Ross Hoffman and Moshe Alamaro this team’s leaders want to disperse tons of a special kind of soot as high as 50000 feet—essentially spray-painting the top of the hurricane black so the heat of the sun can warm the storm’s upper layer just as sunshine warms a black-roofed house. (This approach has obvious ecological drawbacks. ) Both teams of researchers would dump their particles out of large cargo planes some of which can carry 125 tons or more. In Hoffman and Alamaro’s scenario the planes would disgorge the soot above the hurricane’s eye and the storm would disperse it outward… In Hoffman and Alamaro’s scenario the planes would disgorge the soot above the hurricane’s eye and the storm would disperse it outward. In the other group’s plan planes would disperse the salt particles at the storm’s outer edges to be hoovered up by the storm’s churn and delivered to its heart. In both cases the immediate impact on the hurricane’s intensity would probably be negligible but the effect would compound over time as the storm drifted west. All told it might take a dozen or so flights a day to set in motion the degradation of a big storm. That’s the theory. In practice previous efforts to subdue the weather have proven humbling. Hopes for cloud seeding once ran so high that Congress considered literally legislating the weather: The Weather Modification Act of 1951 had it passed would have aimed for “equitable distribution of precipitation among the states.
Accuracy of past hurricane counts good
EurekAlert – EurekAlert (press release) – Nov 26, 2007
“We have a very accurate count of Atlantic tropical cyclones beginning in 1944 when aircraft became common” says Mann. “In the 1970s satellites were added to that mix. With more than 60 years of accurate hurricane counts the researchers who included Thomas Sabbatelli an undergraduate in meteorology and the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State and Urs Neu a research scientist at ProClim Swiss Academy of Sciences looked at other independent ways to determine the number of hurricanes before 1944. The information is available back to 1870. The statistical model proved successful in various tests of accuracy. The model also predicted 15 total Atlantic tropical storms with an error margin of 4 before the current season began.
A Speaker Night Reflecting on Hurricane Katrina
Bay Area Indymedia – Nov 26, 2007
com Phone Number Address A Speaker Night Reflecting on Hurricane Katrina Featuring Feminist Studies Professor Bettina Aptheker and Community Studies Associate Professor Paul Ortiz Bettina Aptheker is a professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC who has compiled research on issues such as Women’s history African American women’s history and feminist critical race studies. She contributed to the book Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities edited by fellow UCSC professor John Brown Childs. Paul Ortiz is an associate professor of Community Studies and has done considerable research on such fields as African American history U. social and political history U.
Caribbean hurricane: massive social disaster
The Militant – Nov 26, 2007
44 November 26 2007 Caribbean hurricane: massive social disasterCuba sends volunteer doctors to Mexico(feature article) BY OLYMPIA NEWTON November 12—Hundreds of thousands of people in the Caribbean and in Mexico have been devastated in the wake of Tropical Storm Noel in southern Mexico and in the Caribbean especially the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Nearly 150 people are dead and dozens missing in the two counties. Heavy rains also led to deaths in Mexico Nicaragua the Bahamas and Jamaica. The consequences of the storm and flooding are compounded by the social conditions resulting from the imperialist domination of those countries such as inadequate health care and lack of infrastructure to deal with a storm of this magnitude. By contrast in Cuba only one person died as a result of the flooding Reuters reported despite massive storm damage in eastern Granma province.
Riders on the Storm
Atlantic Online – Nov 26, 2007
Fidel Castro later accused American scientists working on Project Stormfury of using hurricanes as a counterrevolutionary instrument of war. In both cases the experiments almost certainly did nothing to alter any hurricane’s course—their methods science now shows were likely hopeless. But that’s scant comfort to hurricane researchers today some of whom may seek legal protection before field-testing their ideas. In a 2006 paper for example Alamaro and two collaborators proposed treaties that would eliminate civil liabilities for hurricane modifiers and guarantee compensation for hurricane victims. Ultimately whether lawmakers expand protections and financial support for weather modifiers will likely depend on the weather. “If there were another hurricane like Katrina” says Alamaro “the legislature might initiate laws to help with these issues. ” Some evidence suggests that hurricanes in the North Atlantic have recently been increasing in strength and frequency and historically bad hurricane seasons have sometimes meant more money and support for hurricane-killers… “When people get themselves pounded into oblivion” says Woodley “they start talking to their representatives. ” New approaches become more appealing. Even hurricane-modification advocates admit their cause is risky and expensive. But the defensive crouch that we’re in now is expensive too and is hardly guaranteed to work: The Army Corps of Engineers has estimated it may need more than $2. 5 billion—several times what the hurricane modifiers think they’d need over the next decade—to buttress New Orleans against the next Katrina-level storm. Perhaps in this case it really would be better to fight them over seas so we don’t have to fight them at home. Pages: <prev 1 2 Graeme Wood is an Atlantic staff editor.
Fancy flavors in hot hot wings
Naples Daily News (subscription) – Nov 26, 2007
17 pounds if you were wondering. The other odd occurrence at the annual festival came from the judging table when Hurricane Grill and Wings won third place for Creative Spicy Wing Sauce second for Creative Sweet Wing Sauce and overall Festival Favorite. And here’s the kicker: Hurricane isn’t from Buffalo or anywhere else in New York; it’s from the sunny state of Florida. Having great wings in the chilly Northeast makes perfect sense. With frigid winters and near constant snows hot and spicy chicken wings can serve as an extra heating device like a radiator or electric blanket only far more delicious. So what are some of the best wings in the country doing in Florida?Two friends and I made a stop at Hurricane’s new outpost on Naples Boulevard to find out. Grabbing a booth we got started looking over Hurricane’s menu a short list of bar and grill grub almost entirely devoted to chicken wings… Having great wings in the chilly Northeast makes perfect sense. With frigid winters and near constant snows hot and spicy chicken wings can serve as an extra heating device like a radiator or electric blanket only far more delicious. So what are some of the best wings in the country doing in Florida?Two friends and I made a stop at Hurricane’s new outpost on Naples Boulevard to find out. Grabbing a booth we got started looking over Hurricane’s menu a short list of bar and grill grub almost entirely devoted to chicken wings. Smack dab in the middle was a list of Hurricane’s sauces 33 strong and available on jumbo wings boneless wings shrimp mahi grouper and just about anything else on the menu. The sauces themselves are broken into five categories based on degrees of spiciness ranging from “No Worries — Mild & Sweet” to “Seek Shelter — Extremely Hot. ” In between flavors range all over the taste map and include classics like honey barbecue as well as more off beat options like sea salt and vinegar Thai ginger and garlic and spicy piña colada.