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Chris Mooney is a visiting associate in the Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University and the author of three books, The Republican War on Science, Storm World, and Unscientific America.
Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist and author at Duke University. Sometimes she's a classicist, radio jock, or congressional staffer. Never sure what's next, she continues to enjoy the journey. For more information, visit her website.
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July 31, 2007
Category: Hurricanes
Man. Japan is getting it bad lately. Just weeks after Supertyphoon Man Yi, another powerful storm is barreling in. Here's the latest satellite image of Typhoon Usagi, just pronounced a Cat 4 with 115 knot sustained winds by the Joint...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 5:10 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
In my previous post, I went into some detail about the intense argument between Greg Holland and Peter Webster on the one hand (PDF), and Chris Landsea on the other (PDF), over whether the total number of Atlantic storms...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 2:10 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Media and Science
Last night at 8:00, I saw The Simpsons. Rewind four hours and I was sitting at my desk writing about the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Turns out they are very much related. Sort of. A little Marine...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:12 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Hurricanes
The National Hurricane Center just named our third Atlantic storm, Chantal, off the eastern seaboard. Chantal is heading across the Atlantic along with the westerlies, possibly destined to become a quite powerful extratropical storm as it travels towards Iceland and...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:20 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 30, 2007
Category: Conservation
Are carbon sequestration initiatives providing incentives that decrease land productivity and limit the habitat of endangered species? We spend a lot of time here discussing wind and water, but I'd like to turn your attention to another force of nature.....
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 1:10 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
It may seem a strange question to be asking in a season that, so far, hasn't yet seen an Atlantic hurricane. But while the weather in any given year can be tricky and unpredictable, there's no doubt that we're...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 9:16 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 29, 2007
Category: Hurricanes
It's a long ways out, to be sure. A lot could change and most certainly will. Nevertheless, this storm, which has just formed, is currently forecast to be a Category 3 at landfall and to strike Japan. For more information...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 1:48 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2007
Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
Read it here. The review is by the New Orleans Times Picayune's Pulitzer winning writer John McQuaid, who is the coauthor of a really great book that helped me a lot with my own research, Path of Destruction: The Devastation...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 12:59 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2007
Category: Hurricanes
Last Saturday night, party animals that we are, some friends and I went on Rhapsody and searched for pop songs that mention "hurricanes." Sweet Jesus, there were a lot of them. And a large percentage used "eye of a hurricane"...
Posted by Chris C. Mooney at 2:21 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics and Science
Exciting news in the world of climate policy.. a proposal that's not only progressive and practical, it's possible! You've likely heard a bit lately about carbon caps and carbon trading. These programs set overall authorized caps on emissions and allow...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:10 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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