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Online rumors and misinformation have run rampant after the devastation from Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Among the wildest conspiracy theories is the claim that the US government has been "creating" hurricanes and "weaponizing" them against the public. The head administrator at FEMA recently said that the dangerous Hurricane Helene misinformation has been "absolutely the worst that I have ever seen," culminating in an armed militia making threats against FEMA rescue workers. In this week's episode, we'll be debunking some of the most dangerous conspiracy theories with experts who have studied hurricanes and the theory behind hurricane hacking - which they've learned first-hand does not work. My guests include Dr. Hugh Willoughby (who led NOAA's Hurricane Research Division), Professor Moshe Alamaro (retired MIT atmospheric scientist), and meteorologist Ed Piotrowski. You won't want to miss these eye-opening conversations that set the record straight about weather modification!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Global Calming - So, what's up with all the hurricanes currently hitting the U.S.?  Is the government controlling the weather?  Do we have "climate change," and if so, is it man-made?  Find out the definitive answers to these questions, and much more, as attorney Larry Dershem interviews two of the world's top hurricane meteorologists, Joe Bastarti, Chief Forecaster at WeatherBell Analytics ( https://www.weatherbell.com/ ) and Stanley Goldenberg of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division, located in Miami, FL ( https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/ ).  Find out the "truth, and nothing but the truth" about global weather patterns, and what's causing them.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated communities in the southern U.S., especially North Carolina, where hundreds died, and Florida. While forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, had predicted an above-average hurricane season, the intensity of these two storms caught the public by surprise. Do we need a new way of categorizing storms so people are better prepared? And what's next for the six weeks left in hurricane season? Ghassan Alaka, Director of the Hurricane Research Division at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Lab in Miami, joins The Excerpt to respond to these and other pressing questions on this catastrophic hurricane season.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tonight is a special show discussing the Lakeland Weather Club.  Joining us as the first of several Guest WeatherBrains is author Dorna Schroeter.  Welcome!  Our next Guest WeatherBrain might have more impact on the field of meteorology than almost any other person.  He's had a positive impact on the thousands of students he's had.  He was nominated by his former students and recognized with an AMS special award for his innovative leadership in teaching meteorology at the high school level while mentoring and inspiring his students.  Jim Witt, welcome!  Also joining us is the DIrector of the Hurricane Research Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorology Laboratories for NOAA.  Dr. Frank Marks, thanks for joining.  Karl Silverman retired as a Lead Forecaster in the Space Flight meteorology group at Johnson Space Center.  Thanks for joining.  Greg Tripoli became the Chair of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Welcome!

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador and founder of Bioquark interviews Dr. Frank D. Marks, MS, ScD, Director of Hurricane Research Division, at NOAA. Ira Pastor comments: Weather and climate disasters affect the world's population. The total approximate cost of damages from weather and climate disasters in the U.S. alone from 1980 to 2019, is over $1.75 trillion, and a major component of that damage results from hurricanes. Few things in nature can compare to the destructive force of a hurricane. Called the "Greatest Storm On Earth", a hurricane is capable of annihilating coastal areas with sustained winds of 155 miles per hour or higher, intense areas of rainfall, and a storm surge. In fact, during it's life cycle a hurricane can expend as much energy as 10,000 nuclear bombs! The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an American scientific agency, within the United States Department of Commerce, that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major waterways, and the atmosphere. NOAA warns of dangerous weather, charts seas, guides the use and protection of ocean and coastal resources, and conducts research to provide the understanding and improve stewardship of the environment. Dr. Frank D. Marks, is Director of Hurricane Research Division, at NOAA: Dr. Marks is a recognized expert in tropical cyclones and is the leader of the NOAA tropical cyclone research efforts as the research lead of NOAA is Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP) and the director of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorology Laboratory. Dr. Marks also serves as co-lead of the NOAA Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research (OFCM) Working Group for Tropical Cyclone Research (WG/TCR). His research interests include analyzing meteorological remote sensing (e.g., microwave radar and radiometer) and numerical model data sets, particularly in tropical cyclones and mesoscale convective systems to understand the storm kinematic and precipitation structure. Besides his role within NOAA Dr. Marks is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the University of Miami, as well as a Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Marks received a B.S. in Meteorology from Belknap College (1973) and both an M.S. (1975) and Sc.D. (1981) in Meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Marks is a member of the American Meteorlogical Society (AMS) and became a Fellow of the AMS in 2000. He served as a member of AMS Committee on Radar Meteorology and of the AMS Council. On this ideaXme episode we will hear from Dr. Marks about: - His background - how he became interested in science, in meteorology, in hurricane research, and a little bit of his career journey through the academic and government sectors to date - A general introduction to NOAA and specifically the Hurricane Research Division - A discussion of core research priorities of the Hurricane Research Division - Technological developments that Dr. Marks is personally most excited about looking forward over the next decade or two, such as artificial intelligence/ machine learning in the forecasting process - The SUSTAIN lab or the "Surge Structure Atmosphere Interaction" lab - University of Miami US$45 million initiative to produce hurricanes up to a category 5 level (the strongest there is), with wind speeds reaching more than 252 km/h (157 mph). - This history of NOAA attempts to "stop a hurricane in its track" and Project STORMFURY - His experiences with flying into a hurricane on the NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircrafts Credits: Ira Pastor, ideaXme ambassador interview. Visit ideaXme www.radioideaxme.com Contact the founder of ideaXme: andrea@ideaxme.com Follow ideaXme on Twitter:@ideaxm On Instagram:@ideaxme To discuss collaboration and or partnerships please contact the founder of ideaXme: andrea@ideaxme.com Find ideaXme across the internet including on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud,Radio Public,TuneIn Radio,I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts and more. ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd.

Legendary hurricane hunter Frank Marks Today’s guest is Frank Marks, legendary NOAA meteorologist and tropical cyclone expert. Since the 1980s, he’s flown 10,000 hours on NOAA’s P3 Orion aircraft, including through many, many hurricanes. Marks, who now leads NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division, clearly enjoys learning. He shares some of his favorite experiences with us. Curiosity and a career path. He got curious about weather in grade school. His neighbor, a science teacher, kept weather instruments in his yard. Soon Marks was one of his students, learning how to make measurements with such instruments. He joined the school’s weather club and learned things like how to decode meteorological messages that came in by teletype machine. He explains using “old fashioned” methods of gathering and interpreting data to make forecasts, which were and posted at school every day. He lived near an IBM facility, and he describes a senior class project that involved learning how to program an IBM computer, using punch cards, to do meteorological work. In college, Marks enjoyed learning from brilliant professors and became interested in fluid dynamics. In graduate school at MIT, he had an opportunity to do a three-month internship in Senegal -- to work on an important Atlantic tropical weather experiment that involved multiple aircraft and a fleet of weather ships. It was a life-changing experience. Marks urges young researchers to take risks when opportunities knock. He details his “trial by fire” during that internship, which included doing a lot of analysis by hand. Eventually, by studying lots of data and watching for patterns, he became an expert on tropical convection variability. That internship led to a job offer from NOAA’s hurricane research lab — where he’s worked for the past 37 years.

Are natural disasters increasing? More people getting killed? Violent crime increasing? Are more people poor? The short answer. No Most every aspect of life is much better than it was 50 yrs ago & getting better every year. The facts are extremely clear on this. Why do people think things are worse? Outdated data, personal bias, & incorrect perceptions created by the media. The world is NOT Going to Hell, DON'T INSULT MY INTELLIGENCE! Use the Website link on the Itunes page for more info & pics                                                   ------- SHOW NOTES ------- The inspiration for this episode was this wonderful Ted Talk given by Hans & Ela Rosling.  They are father and son scientific researchers that study world wide statistic and historical data.  They help governments, companies and other organizations understand trends in human behavior.  This presentation offers fascinating insights people's general ignorance of some basic statistic about natural disasters, income, and life span. How not to be ignorant about the world Link to Image    1. Are Deaths from Natural Disasters increasing? No. But around 70% of people think they are.  More Chimpanzees go the answer right than people.  LOL Link to Image   2. Are Hurricanes becoming more frequent?  Nope, we just hear about them more and more. Here is a link to some great data from the Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. The NO&AA is a bureau of the US Government.  You can see from this data that Hurricanes (Normal or Major, Landfall or Ocean bound) are no more frequent than they have ever been.  http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E11.html (We will make a chart of this data table soon)   3. This is an interesting slide. It shows peoples perception of crime getting worse vs the actual stats. Interesting that the huge jump in the perception of crime increasing is in 2001...  Link to Image   4. 95% of people surveyed in the USA believe poverty is on the increase or is not getting better. Again Chimpanzees answer more correctly.  Link to Image   5. A common view point you probably hear quite a lot is the income gap. How there is no more middle class anymore... Not true. Most people in the world are in the middle. Yes a small group of people are extremely wealthy sure, but most people in the world are in the middle.      Link to Image 6. Another example of people's incorrect views. As you can see the majority of people surveyed believe only 20% of children in the world are vaccinated. Why are they so far off from the facts. Um.... Social media??? Cable News??? DON'T INSULT MY INTELLIGENCE!!!     Link to Image

Today’s guest is Frank Marks, legendary NOAA meteorologist and tropical cyclone expert. Since the 1980s, he’s flown 10,000 hours on NOAA’s P3 Orion aircraft, including through many, many hurricanes. Marks, who now leads NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division, clearly enjoys learning. He shares some of his favorite experiences with us. The P3 Orion Marks discusses the P3 aircraft capabilities and describes flying into his first hurricane, Hurricane Alan. After that ride, he explains, seeing the data coming in through all the instruments, he was hooked. He discusses early experiments trying to understand the nature of the hurricane eyewall replacement cycle. The Doppler revolution In 1981, another highlight for Marks was the addition of Doppler radar to the P3 aircraft, which he describes as a revolutionary technique for understanding the three-dimensional structure of storms. Marks details the ways that Doppler, which he calls a “CAT scan of the wind,” improved scientific understanding of hurricanes. A watershed for meteorologists, Doppler data helped scientists figure out storm structure and how they work. He recalls the enthusiasm with which he and his colleagues “did some of the best science ever.” Surviving Hugo One of Marks’s scariest experiences, complete with a P3 engine on fire, involves flying into category 5 Hurricane Hugo at 1,500 feet. It wasn’t exactly planned, he explains, to fly that low into wind speeds over 150 MPH. He describes the miscalculations, the incredible view — and how the crew survived the experience. “The data was incredible,” he says, “And it was a labor of love to analyze.” Rainfall climatology Over and over, Marks says, serendipity played a role in his work. He describes working with a NASA team interested in tropical storms called the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), a satellite system that examined storms around the globe. By chance he stopped to chat with the TRMM chief scientist, and he ended up volunteering to analyze the TRMM hurricane data — which had yet to be examined. That, in turn, led to a project that used TRMM to devise global climatology for 700 tropical systems. Connecting to TACC In 2008, after a series of active and damaging hurricane seasons, NOAA formed a committee to improve forecasts, which became the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project that Marks now leads. By chance, the team was offered 1 million hours on the newly available Texas Advanced Computer Center – an opportunity to put the new system through its paces. Marks describes the challenge of feeding large weather datasets to the models on the TACC system. Fortunately, the data scientist on his team made it all work. That pioneering experiment laid the groundwork for today’s weather scientists to use supercomputers like TACC for accurate and real-time hurricane forecasts.

Legendary hurricane hunter Frank Marks Today’s guest is Frank Marks, legendary NOAA meteorologist and tropical cyclone expert. Since the 1980s, he’s flown 10,000 hours on NOAA’s P3 Orion aircraft, including through many, many hurricanes. Marks, who now leads NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division, clearly enjoys learning. He shares some of his favorite experiences with us. Curiosity and a career path. He got curious about weather in grade school. His neighbor, a science teacher, kept weather instruments in his yard. Soon Marks was one of his students, learning how to make measurements with such instruments. He joined the school’s weather club and learned things like how to decode meteorological messages that came in by teletype machine. He explains using “old fashioned” methods of gathering and interpreting data to make forecasts, which were and posted at school every day. He lived near an IBM facility, and he describes a senior class project that involved learning how to program an IBM computer, using punch cards, to do meteorological work. In college, Marks enjoyed learning from brilliant professors and became interested in fluid dynamics. In graduate school at MIT, he had an opportunity to do a three-month internship in Senegal -- to work on an important Atlantic tropical weather experiment that involved multiple aircraft and a fleet of weather ships. It was a life-changing experience. Marks urges young researchers to take risks when opportunities knock. He details his “trial by fire” during that internship, which included doing a lot of analysis by hand. Eventually, by studying lots of data and watching for patterns, he became an expert on tropical convection variability. That internship led to a job offer from NOAA’s hurricane research lab — where he’s worked for the past 37 years.