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Scientists: More Hurricanes to Come
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (www.time.com)
The tropics seem to be going crazy what with the remnants of Gustav, the new threat from Hanna, a strengthening Ike and newcomer Josephine. Get used to it. 


Climate change means more than mild winters: storms wreak extra havoc
Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
According to Nature, the maximum speeds of hurricanes and other intense storms have increased since 1981.
While atmospheric models have long suggested that an overall increase in planetary temperature will also increase the intensity of storms, it has also been argued that other results of increasing temperature, such as increased shearing winds, would cancel out or interfere with these other effects.
Climatologists at the University of Florida, however, have found that recent storms have been able to overcome the effects of shearing winds 


US must invest against climate change
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 3 weeks (environment.newscientist.com)
Eight scientific organizations have urged the next U.S. president to help protect the country from climate change by pushing for increased funding for research and forecasting. They stress the damage that could be done to the U.S. economy by storms, droughts, and increasingly intense weather patterns. 


An Ill Wind, Bringing Meningitis
sea-maid submitted, created time 4 months 2 weeks (www.sciencemag.org)
The dust is inescapable, burning your eyes, clogging your nose, penetrating into your lungs, and making breathing ragged. In March, on the road to Koudougou, some 100 km west of Ouagadougou, the landscape is moonlike. In the cratered bottom of a lakebed, dust-caked men, barely distinguishable from their surroundings, fashion bricks from the mud. The bricks will dry quickly in the baking heat, which tops 45°C each day. 
Bad Weather Makes for a Long Day
sumsung submitted, created time 6 months 3 weeks (www.sciam.com)
The length of a day, which is measured by the time it takes Earth to rotate once on its axis, can be measured to an accuracy of about 10 microseconds, or 10 millionths of a second. Earth's rotational rate depends on the distribution of mass across its surface. This includes the roiling aggregation of gases that comprise the atmosphere, the solid earth itself, its fluid core, and the sloshing ocean. For example, when a major earthquake shifts the planet's mass, it can slow or speed the day by as much as a few thousandths of a second. 
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