Since 2006 , federally declared weather-related disasters in the United States have affected counties housing 242 million people--or roughly four out of five Americans. That's the remarkable finding of Environment America, who last week released a detailed report on extreme weather events in the U.S. The report analyzed FEMA data to study the number of federally declared weather-related disasters. More than 15 million Americans live in counties that have averaged one or more weather-related disasters per year since the beginning of 2006. Ten U.S. counties--six in Oklahoma, two in Nebraska, and one each in Missouri and South Dakota--have each experienced ten or more declared weather-related disasters since 2006. South Carolina was the only state without a weather-related disaster since 2006. The report did a nice job explaining the linkages between extreme weather events and climate change, and concluded, "The increasing evidence linking global warming to certain types of extreme weather events--underscored by the degree to which those events are already both a common and an extremely disruptive fact of life in the United States--suggests that the nation should take the steps needed now to prevent the worst impacts of global warming and to prepare for the changes that are inevitably coming down the road."
Figure 1. County-level map of federally-declared weather-related disasters between 2006 - 2011. Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in the Midwest, and heavy rains and snows from Nor'easters, hurricanes, and other storms in the Northeast gave those two regions the most disaster declarations. An interactive version of this map that allows one to click and see the individual disasters by county is on the Environment America website.
Jeff Masters
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You said we should print 15 trillion dollars...
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That is how much paper money is in circulation.
lol, gotem
Thank you!
the problem with currency is it doesn't evaluate things in a fair manner. It presents only one dimension of evaluation.
I had considered developing an "energy standard", sort of like the "gold standard," but it quickly becomes obvious that doesn't work.
Example.
If you defined a dollar in terms of Joules of energy, then let's say a gallon of gasoline is 131,000,000Joules. And we define a standard currency unit as exactly 1 gallon of gasoline worth of energy.
Well, it won't work for the same reason paper money doesn't work. The food you eat in a day on a 2000 calorie per day diet comes to 4,200,000Joules, and depending on what you ate, even if you ate "cheap", that much food actually costs more than the price of a gallon of gasoline, even though it is far lower in energy value.
If food and gasoline were priced on energy value, then you could buy a month's worth of food for the same price as a gallon of gasoline.
Since the Joule is a universal unit of energy (or rather a convenient unit for simple calculations) and since energy obeys universal laws which are un-biased, then the system could not be inflated.
But there is still a problem with it, in that many things we buy for structural properties or other properties besides just "energy," and so the scale would still not be a fair evaluation of those products.
Many things are simply not even on the same spectrum of values, when you think about it rationally.
a painting vs food vs a computer vs a hammer vs a gallon of gasoline...
Are all of those things seriously evaluated in the same paper dollars? Presently, yes, but it is a completely ridiculous form of trade which always ends up screwing somebody over in the end.
Correct. I said 15 trillion dollars in 5, 10, 20, 100...I never said anything about any ridiculous "trillion dollar bill," like that absurd Zimbabwe note.
(t.i.a.)
HRRR nailed it!
2012
2011
Currency is unfair because it collapses all dimension to a single dimension, which clearly cannot capture the true essence of the multi-dimensional, multi-variable world, which is the economics of physics.
Anyway I'm done here. Sorry for ripping into you today, but you post a lot of things I strongly disagree with...like denying evolution, denying the life cycle of a main sequence star, saying we should print 15 trillion dollars and thinking that trains magically go from 16mph to 0mph in a hundredth of a second.
Posted on February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012 HAWAII - The National Weather Service in Honolulu has issued a winter storm warning for the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa until 6 a.m. Wednesday (Feb 22) for elevations above 8,000 feet. A winter storm warning means significant amounts of snow, sleet and ice are expected or is occurring. Strong winds are also possible. Sleet, snow and freezing rain will make for hazardous conditions for drivers and hikers. An additional three to four inches of snowfall is expected this afternoon and evening. As of 12:24 p.m. Tuesday (Feb 21) Mauna Kea Summit Access Road is closed at the Visitor Information Station due to ice and snow on roadways. Mauna Kea Rangers report that it is doubtful the road will be open today due to poor weather. A wind advisory is also in effect for Big Island summits over 8,000 feet until 6 a.m. Wednesday (Feb 22). Currently winds are 20-30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph. Winds this strong can bring down tree branches and make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Hawaii 247
How about these models pumping out this big noreaste the around march 2nd??????
If they ran into me they would ;)
Of the United States value. Increasing the number of dollars just make the fraction larger. The value of the United States is the same. Not a perfect analogy but the easiest way I can explain it.
Good analogy.
No, it wouldn't.
a 1-trillion dollar bill is useless except to make a transaction of 1 trillion dollars, which absolutely nobody ever does. Effectively making the bill "worthless".
1 billion "hundred dollar bills" can still be spent in ordinary transactions.
It's over your head. Lol.
Cloud height decreasing on Earth and NASA scientists are unsure why
Posted on February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012 – EARTH - Earth’s clouds got a little lower — about one percent on average — during the first decade of this century, finds a new NASA-funded university study based on NASA satellite data. The results have potential implications for future global climate. Data from NASA’s MISR instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft show that global average cloud height declined by about 1 percent over the decade from 2000 to 2010, or around 100 to 130 feet (30 to 40 meters). Lead researcher Roger Davies said that while the record is too short to be definitive, it provides a hint that something quite important might be going on. Longer-term monitoring will be required to determine the significance of the observation for global temperatures. A consistent reduction in cloud height would allow Earth to cool to space more efficiently, reducing the surface temperature of the planet and potentially slowing the effects of global warming. This may represent a “negative feedback” mechanism – a change caused by global warming that works to counteract it. “We don’t know exactly what causes the cloud heights to lower,” says Davies. “But it must be due to a change in the circulation patterns that give rise to cloud formation at high altitude.” NASA’s Terra spacecraft is scheduled to continue gathering data through the remainder of this decade. Scientists will continue to monitor the MISR data closely to see if this trend continues. –Physics
Problem solved.
It would still make the value of the dollar almost 0, its stupid.
Denying evolution isn't exactly true of what I've said.
It's clear things change.
The difference is in how and why they change, and I think the order and manner in which I believe things to be.
atheists claim to believe life and the universe are an accident.
I find this preposterous.
When you really dig into the facts, the real physicists believe in God whether they realize it or not. They are always looking for a deeper origin of the universe through attempting to discover, define, and describe more fundamental layers of reality.
As I said a few days ago, both the Bible and Aquinas equate God to "The rational principle that governs the universe".
Any attempt to describe or understand the universe is ultimately an attempt to understand God, or at the very least any intermediate mechanisms he employed through creation.
I cannot accept the atheist belief in life as a random accident or some combination of chance and selection, because that is not rational. The universe is far too ordered and even redundant in it's very laws for randomness or chance to be considered as rational. Many modern scientists are beginning to realize that.
currency < weather..............get it together!
I did say it wasn't perfect. How would you explain it?
Yet giving the credit for all the order in the universe to a magic sky wizard (of any particular denomination) is completely irrational as well.
Look how the Pacific has warmed in a short period of time.
Thank you.
at this rate i dont think i would be out of line to say it could be here by early summer...hmmm...
That was why I said value of U.S. as opposed to our gold reserve. I was just trying to explain why we couldn't print our way out of it.
i bet you have changed thru about 50 different avatars this year LOL.
:D
i forgot to put a warning up also that my previous comment contained information about the weather.
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