Weather

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/7/2021
  

  Your Weather Forecast Update: Warmer Climate Will Be The New 'Normal'

  The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its ten-year updates to its "normal" temperature standards. Based on 30 years of data, higher temperatures are indeed "the new normal."

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/4/2020
  

  How Understanding the History of Hurricanes Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Big One

  by Eric Jay Dolin

  We, as a society, can decide how best to respond to the continued barrage that is sure to come from the greatest storms on earth, thereby lessening their impact.

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• 10/6/19
  

  On Weather and History

  by M. Andrew Holowchak

  Thomas Jefferson’s Climate-Induced “Philosophical Hangover” Explained.

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• SOURCE: Time
  9/5/19
  

  Here's Why U.S. Law Prohibits Claiming That a 'Counterfeit Weather Forecast' Is Official

  When President Trump held up a map of Hurricane Dorian’s projected path, it included a Sharpie-drawn extension to show the storm hitting Alabama.

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  8/30/19
  

  The Houston Flood Museum and the Harvey Memories Project Gather Harvey Memories for Historians of the Future

  They’re a time capsule of the destruction wrought by the deadliest storm to hit Texas since 1919.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/27/19
  

  Nukes, plugs and walls: Humanity’s harebrained schemes for combating natural disasters

  Whether we’re considering corking the top of an erupting volcano, erecting a wall to guard against a tornado or pumping water into a fault line to stop an earthquake, humanity’s solutions are often shortsighted and sloppy.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-12-17
  

  The cost of coastal capitalism: How greedy developers left Miami ripe for destruction

  by Andrew W. Kahrl

  Building on vulnerable coastlines isn't about ignorance or hubris — it's about profit.

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• 10-19-16
  

  Think Hurricane Matthew Was Bad?

  by John Withington

  These storms changed history.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2-23-15
  

  New Study: Plague outbreaks that ravaged Europe for centuries were driven by climate changes in Asia

  These outbreaks were traditionally thought to be caused by rodent reservoirs of infected rats lurking in Europe’s cities, or potentially by rodent reservoirs in the wilderness. But research published in the journal PNAS suggests otherwise.

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  2-13-15
  

  Monster Hurricanes Battered US Northeast 800 Years Ago

  A new study of sediment deposits from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, shows that 23 severe hurricanes hit New England between 250 and 1150 CE.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9-13-13
  

  Five years later, Hurricane Ike still remembered deep in the heart of Texas

  Hurricane Ike was one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history.

• SOURCE: BusinessStandard
  03-15-13
  

  One of world's oldest sun dials discovered in Egypt

  Researchers have unearthed one of the world's oldest Egyptian sun dials - possibly dating back to 13th century BC - used by the people to tell time with the position of the Sun.The discovery was made during archaeological excavations in the Kings' Valley in Upper Egypt by a team of researchers from the University of Basel.The team led by Professor Susanne Bickel made the significant discovery while clearing the entrance to one of the tombs.During this year's excavations the researchers found a flattened piece of limestone (so-called Ostracon) on which a semicircle in black colour had been drawn. The semicircle is divided into twelve sections of about 15 degrees each.... 

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• 9-8-05
  

  The Great Flood of 1927: An Interview with Pete Daniel

  by Rick Shenkman

  It was the flood of all floods  –  and it changed America forever.