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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Fimmvörðuháls eruption in Iceland coincides with display of northern lights
Posted on February 23, 2012
February 23, 2012 – ICELAND – A photographer from Britain, James Appleton, has captured breath-taking pictures from Iceland, reports The Huffington Post. He captured both magma and northern lights in one shot. He stood just a few yards from an erupting volcano in order to take the pictures and they just might be one of nature’s most amazing sights. James was willing to go within a few hundred feet of an erupting volcano after working alongside vulcanologists in Iceland, and found out about Fimmvörðuháls who from his Icelandic friend. “She informed me of the eruption, and I knew immediately I had to try and get out to see it.” Not only did James have to deal with the harsh flames of the volcano, but he also had to face the frozen temperatures of a harsh Icelandic winter in order to take his remarkable pictures. “The closest I got was probably only a few hundred meters away,” said James. -Long Island Press
Anyone who in a scientific debate falls back on religion, faith, or a deity as the fundamental construct for supporting their arguments has no real logical argument in the first place. It is pointless to argue with them, as no matter what evidence, science, research, or data you bring forth they will always claim they are right.
Hey man.... if this is TRUE, this is serious... We are talking about millions of human beings.... Tokyo Population - over 12 million
Tokyo is contaminated as the worst place in Chernobyl
Posted by Mochizuki on February 22nd, 2012 · 7 Comments
Tokyo contaminated as the worst place in Chernobyl
Following up this article..23,300 Bq/Kg of cesium from 4km of filter plant
The contamination level of Mizumoto Park turned out to be the same level of “off-limits zone” in Chernobyl.
The contamination level of the park was 23,300 Bq/Kg.
According to Nuclear Safety Commission, it is converted to be 1.4 ~1.5 million Bq/m2.
In Chernobyl, if the area is more contaminated than 1.48 million Bq/m2, it was labelled as off-limits zone, which was the worst level of the pollution.
Because cesium doesn’t choose Mizumoto park intentionally, at least some parts are contaminated as the worst area of Chernobyl.
Seriously? Reread my post, RTS. I made no such fallacy, you think that somehow your definitions are "correct" therefore you win. It's pretty low on the "how debate works" scale.
Published: Thursday, February 23, 2012, 9:10 AM
You ought not talk liiiiiike that.....you just a young boy....
http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/images/carib/Car ib_GoesSST.gif
West Caribbean already at 29 C
That would be awesome
Instability is coming of the Atlantic and GOM int GA but it still doesnt look good for severe weather.
GA in slight risk zone for tomorrow with ML CAPE values of 500-750
but that is south of me. N Ga is not in anything worthwhile.
Where I live in Florida we are under a general risk zone with a 10% rain chance. I still can't figure that one out.....
Pollution goes against God's will, say church leaders in Ash Wednesday message
Leaders of churches in Britain including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of Scotland's Roman Catholics have made a Lenten call for repentance and a "change of direction" to combat the dangers of climate change.
Rowan Williams has joined Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, among other church leaders, in signing a declaration which says reducing dependence on fossil fuels is "essential" to Christian discipleship.
The launch declaration comes on Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, traditionally a period of penitence, prayer and reflection for Christians in the run-up to Easter. The declaration will be marked by a service in central London this evening.
Many Christians receive a mark of ashes on the forehead as a token of penitence and mortality.
"Continuing to pollute the atmosphere when we know the dangers goes against what we know of God's ways and God's will," the declaration said.
"We are failing to love not only the earth, but our neighbours and ourselves, who are made in God's image. God grieves over the destruction of creation and so should we."
The Military has live-stream sat capability but not for "public" use.........I don't know if they ever share those feeds with other Agencies for non-military use during any given weather related event.
LMAO....Your kidding right?
I find that to be unrealistic. Tokyo is well to the south of Fukushima. Given the dominant weather patterns in the area I find it hard to believe that that much contamination made it that far south, even if there were a massive plums of radioactive materials.
If indeed this were the case, then the entire eastern coast of Japan would be heavily contaminated, and anywhere even close to Fukushima should be an irradiated wasteland. In addition, there should be plenty of stories in various cities up and down the coast about the contamination as well (with higher readings), which there doesn't seem to be.
The original story was posted here Link it seems. The measurements were performed by members of the communist party. Their methodology alone is suspect, which only measured 4 locations using a somewhat inaccurate hand-held detector you can get buy from ebay (a real detector is much more accurate, and certified).
So something doesn't add up. Either the numbers are correct and Japan's east coast will soon look like the Chernobyl "Red and Dead" forest with millions dying from spontaneous outbreaks of radiation sickness, or the numbers are wrong and this is a case of a political party trying to gain a leg up on the current government.
That's not to say that there isn't any contamination. But the story doesn't make a lot of sense.
Real time Live rapid scan is available for many Commercial Industries, esp the Offshore Oil ones. In One Shell Square in NOLA one can walk into their weather Floor and see a myriad of fast scan Loops in real time.
Thanks for the info Pat...... I suspect that many of the "black" NASA missions in the past with a Military payload, as well as launches from Vandenberg, have launched such real time technology but no surprise that some of the commercial payloads have the same tech... Gonna check out that one out next time I am in NOLA.
Indeed, the only Shuttle launch we went to was in Aug 89 in for a Columbia DoD Mission launching a SDS-2 Comm Sat.
I brought my 6 mth old Shepherd at the time too.
A Huge Mistake. LoL
But we sure enjoyed the NASA KSC tour and we even drove up to a Pad-gate across the Causeway and was promptly and sternly made to exit the way we came.
STS-28
You cant miss one Shell Square in NOLA, its the Largest Hi-rise downtown.
oneshellsquare
This is pretty sensational stuff. You don't give a link to your source. How can we judge its reliability?
Edit: now I see Xyrus' post. Okay, political extremists--and I don't mean Al Gore.
cant describe political discussions(mainly the bashing of past successful politics) any better xD
One of the best sources has been the Fukushima Diary thats caught major Flak from the Japanese Govt and TEPCO.
If one can state the current condition of the Reactor cores, feel free to share it here with us.
Cesium is bad for Life,...
fukushima-diary.com
Anyone want to co-sponsor it?
Im for smaller Govt and less intrusive Govt.
I am included in that 30% mark.
So is my friend is wilmington. If i am lucky, she will get a surprise storm that scares her BAD and will realize the importance of a weather radio lol
the cap is in an interesting state right now. If something can starts storms in the south tonight, it could be interesting.
But significant severe weather does not look likely
I know NOAA has 1 minute update satellite feed
Looks identical to the one in Houston
I am in the 15%(by 5 miles) on Day 1 and almost in the 5% on day 2 so maybe i will get something, but i wish it had come this afternoon.
currently 76 degrees dewpoint 56. Partly to Mostly Sunny.
2012
2011
Don't worry it'll go around South Carolina just like the above map states. It's guaranteed
My high tomorrow is 75 from the NWS, and the SPC is hinting at CAPE values in my area of over 500 j/kg.
Here is a section from the discussion on day2:
POTENTIAL COULD DEVELOP FOR...AT LEAST...FAIRLY WIDESPREAD...AND POTENTIALLY QUITE STRONG...CONVECTIVELY ENHANCED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. A FEW TORNADOES MAY ALSO NOT BE OUT OF THE QUESTION.
but i dont want to leave this blog lol.
Well, if you still believe that the Fukushima accident is a light one and trust what TepCo and the government are saying, then all these posts are Sensational stuff...
But you can make your own research from Enenews, fukushima-diary.com, fairewinds.com, province.com, reports from Arnie Gundersen (check out the many videos in Youtube from this engineer). For me, this is not sensational stuff, but just the tip of the iceberg.... and it's going to be news for a long time to come....
liberals with a dash of intellectual elitists
Quoting Mochizuki San - fukushima-diary.com
It’s just human to think western Japan is safe outside of Fukushima is safe. It’s just an imaginary boarder of human, has nothing to do with radiation. Radiation doesn’t think, oh I’m getting out of Fukushima, shall stop here or should I get to Tokyo by Train or car.
Look at the world map. Japan is such a tiny island. Everywhere is the same. and now they’re distributing the radioactive debris to all over Japan, to share the “pain”, which is so typical for Japanese, and all the food is contaminated. Cars, people, train, they are all contaminated and move around in Japan. There is no safe place in Japan. That’s why I got out of there.
There are 4 main islands, Honshu, Hokkaiso, Shikoku, and Kyushu. but they are so close that you can even drive by car. They are all the same.
Mr. Koide from Kyoto university said, old people have to eat contaminated food because they have responsibility for nuclear, and it’s the responsibility of future generation to accept radiation.
I dare to say no. I won’t accept anything except for completely 0Bq/kg. I have no reason to eat radiation. I completely refuse to be involved in their fantasy world like Kamikaze. I really think all of them should leave Japan soon as possible.
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Add to human activity the many unaccounted natural cycles like pollen that propagates by wind and insects, winter snow meltdown waters that go down stream and carry radiation and many other factors that we aren't aware off, not living there....
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