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Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a prolific author and Southern preparedness expert who has written over 75 novels that blend gripping survival scenarios with real world lessons drawn from his professional training in emergency management. His work spans everything from tornadoes and hurricanes to grid-down solar flare events. His storytelling offers a uniquely grounded, Southern approach to self-reliance and resilience. Ron Foster, welcome! Tonight's Guest Panelist is Jared Rennie, research meteorologist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information in North Carolina. He's an AMS-certified consulting meteorologist who is passionate about data, accessibility, climate services and applying new technologies like AI and machine learning in the world of meteorology. Also, Bruce Jones joins us to discuss the importance of NOAA Weather Radio and its integration in order to save lives. Welcome back, Bruce! Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. Cataclysmic flooding in Mid-South (02:30) Meteorologist fatigue after multiple day events (03:00) Senatobia, Mississippi tornado last week (06:30) What is a disaster-prepper? (18:30) Prepper starter kit for beginners (20:00) How to purify water during a disaster (25:30) Living through 1979's Hurricane Frederic (34:15) Different perceptions of severe weather in the South compared to other regions (40:15) Internet dependency and society vulnerability (50:00) Carrington level solar events and appropriate reaction (01:02:00) Recommended basic survival kit (01:11:30) Bruce Jones/Midland Weather Radio (01:34:42) The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (01:16:45) This Week in Tornado History With Jen (01:18:50) E-Mail Segment (01:20:25) National Weather Round-Up and more! Web Sites from Episode 1003: Midland Weather Radio Prepper Fiction Survival: Your Source for Prepper Fiction Ron Foster on Amazon Jared Rennie on X Picks of the Week: Jared Rennie - Jared Rennie on GitHub Jared Rennie - CBS News on YouTube: How a small North Carolina town is recovering six months after Hurricane Helene Bruce Jones - Gainesville, GA/Cooper Pants Factory tornado on April 6, 1936 James Aydelott - Amish speedy repairs mentioned in NOAA Storm Survey Jen Narramore - Poplar Bluff History Museum Rick Smith - Balanced Weather on Substack Troy Kimmel - WFAA Y'all-itics Kim Klockow-McClain - KY family goes viral for burying van as storm shelter. ‘Country boys can survive' Kim Klockow-McClain - ‘Get rid of the whole thing': After Stitt ousts Mark Goeller, Forestry Services comment irks #okleg John Gordon - USGS Volcanoes on X: Mount St. Helens prank by WNAC-TV Bill Murray - Foghorn James Spann - NOAA's GOES-19 satellite now operational, providing critical new data to forecasters The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, John Gordon, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.
Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is one of the most respected voices in the field of broadcast meteorology. He celebrated his 45th anniversary with WGN-TV in August 2023, and officially retired from WGN-TV at the end of February 2024. Tom Skilling, it's great to see you tonight! Meteorologist and Former Director of NWS (2013-2022) Louis Uccellini also joins us tonight as a Guest Panelist. He was also director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and served as the Permanent Representative of the United States for the World Meteorological Organization. Thanks for joining us tonight, Louis! Joining us as Guest Panelist is a brilliant researcher and recently tenured Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment at Northern Illinois University. His research umbrella covers a wide range of topics related to severe weather, particularly the relationship between severe convective storms and climate change by utilizing dynamical downscaling. Dr. Victor Gencini, welcome to the show! Also, Bruce Jones joins us to discuss the importance of NOAA Weather Radio and its integration in order to save lives. Welcome back, Bruce! Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. New Panelist Introduction (05:15) 1990 Plainfield tornado tragedy (18:00) Lack of feasibility to privatize government warning systems for severe weather (25:00) Writing on the wall with budget cuts/staffing reductions and concerns for working in Government Sector/NOAA (41:00) Losing younger scientists to the private sector (55:45) November 17th, 2013 Washington, Illinois Tornado (01:00:30) Long-term budget concerns (01:05:00) Importance of not losing upper-air data when assimilating a public forecast (01:08:00) Development of global radiosonde network (01:20:00) Final thoughts on uncertain times in the industry (02:01:00) Inexpensive cost to taxpayers for NOAA's forecasts and services (01:53:00) The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (No segment this week) This Week in Tornado History With Jen (01:54:57) E-Mail Segment National Weather Round-Up and more! Web Sites from Episode 1001: Midland Weather Radio Victor Gensini, PhD, CCM on X Tom Skilling on X Picks of the Week: Bruce Jones - Foghorn James Aydelott - James Aydelott on X: "Twisters" Sequel? Jen Narramore - Germantown Regional History and Genealogy Center Rick Smith - 2024 Severe Weather Year In Review Troy Kimmel - Foghorn Kim Klockow-McClain - Foghorn John Gordon - Foghorn Bill Murray - Foghorn James Spann - NSSL Severe Convection and Climate Research The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, John Gordon, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.
How can we quantify the real human impact of extreme weather? According to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, 2024 alone saw 27 individual weather and climate disasters with at least $1 billion in damages, trailing only the record-setting 28 events analyzed in 2023. Across hurricanes, wildfires, floods, tornados, and more the impacts of the climate crisis are apparent, but where do we begin to measure the real toll, these disasters take on the people affected and how do those folks carry on?In this episode, we speak to three members of Extreme Weather Survivors, an organization dedicated to building community, providing support and training, and advocating for change for all those impacted by extreme weather. I join Executive Director and Co-Founder Chris Kocher, Melissa Whittaker, a small business owner from Montpelier, Vermont, and Erica Solove, a psychologist from Boulder, Colorado in a discussion about what it means to make connections, stay resilient, and create positive change in the wake of the climate crisis.
Phoenix experienced a 113-day streak of temperatures at or over 100 degrees, and an annual average high temperature of 90 degrees in 2024. The city's extreme heat is the worst in the nation and has equally resulted in staggering increases of climate-related health emergencies and deaths. Greater resilience to such rising temperatures requires clear, verifiable information that can guide communities in effective decision-making. Researchers at Arizona State University are working to fill this gap, using the Phoenix metro as a laboratory in which to measure, study and document the complex variables that determine thermal risk or safety for humans. Using novel technologies—like ANDI, the only thermal manikin in the world customized for testing outdoor environments—these scientists are building a detailed understanding of how heat affects the human body under a variety of real-world conditions. The results inform local governments' urgent heat risk mitigation work, identifying and prioritizing high-impact opportunities for public cooling center facilities and augmented built or natural shade. Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter the award-winning climatologist Jennifer Vanos and human thermoregulation expert Konrad Rykaczewski about progress and direction in this groundbreaking heat research at ASU, and how its results may help other heat-vulnerable cities in the I-10 corridor and beyond. Related articles and resources National Centers for Environmental Information Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters 2024 tally Phoenix Shade Action Plan “Phoenix closed popular hiking trails for 45 days in 2024. That could rise in 2025.” (Arizona Republic, Jan. 2025) “Meet ANDI, the world's first outdoor sweating, breathing and walking manikin” (ASU News, May 2023) “What Some of the Hottest Cities on The 10 Are Doing to Address Deadly Heat” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, Aug. 2024) “Local Experts Answer: Why Are People Still Moving to Phoenix?” (Ten Across Conversations podcast, Feb. 2024) “Why do Bedouins wear black in the desert?” (The Guardian, Aug. 2012)
In today's Double Tap, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece tackle Meta Ray-Bans' missing AI features, the ongoing iPhone SE 4 speculation, and whether the new Powerbeats Pro 2 earbuds are true AirPods Pro killers.Plus, we discuss the real state of accessibility training in 2025—do we need national centers for blind tech training? And listener Mike shares his frustrations about people misunderstanding white canes in public.Don't miss this episode filled with tech news, accessibility insights, and plenty of Double Tap banter!
Tonight is the annual tradition of the year-ender with recently-retired and former SPC meteorologist Greg Carbin. He was the Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma. Since 1996, Greg has performed as a severe weather, fire weather, mesoscale, and lead forecaster at the SPC. Prior to starting his career with the National Weather Service (NWS) in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1993, Greg worked in the private sector in New York and Vermont. He earned a B.S. degree in Meteorology from Lyndon State College in 1985 and has completed some graduate course work at the University of Oklahoma while an employee of the NWS. He is a 2011 graduate of the Department of Commerce's Executive Leadership Development Program. As always, thanks for listening and good to see you Greg! Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. Jan 10th-13th Winter Storm (13:30) Big Bend Hurricanes of 2024 (37:30) Hurricane Milton (44:00) Lack of high-impact weather events in Alabama in 2024 (01:03:00) Athens, Alabama 12/28/24 EF1 tornado (01:04:00) Dealing with the difficulties of overnight QLCS tornadoes (01:12:00) The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (01:19:14) This Week in Tornado History With Jen (01:22:12) E-Mail Segment (No segment this week) National Weather Round-Up and more! Web Sites from Episode 989: Greg Carbin on X Picks of the Week: Greg Carbin - NWS Probabilistic Precipitation Portal James Aydelott - Oklahoma Mesonoet on X: Extreme Graphics for 2024 Jen Narramore - Navarro County OEM on X Rick Smith - Out Neil Jacobs - Out Troy Kimmel - Foghorn Kim Klockow-McClain - Out Bill Murray - Top 10 Strangest Weather Events of 2024 James Spann - Gage Goulding KPRC 2 on X: EF3 tornado video that tore through Montgomery County, Texas The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, Dr. Neil Jacobs, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.
In this special year-end episode, hosts Bob McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins sit down with the New York Times' chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe Steven Erlanger to review the biggest stories of the past year and discuss developments to watch in 2025. They analyze the conflicts and political developments in the Middle East and Europe, President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his national security team, the state of democracy worldwide, and more. Mentioned on the Podcast James M. Lindsay, “Ten Elections to Watch in 2025,” CFR.org National Centers for Environmental Information, “Monthly Global Climate Report for October 2024,” NCEI.NOAA.gov For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/world-next-year-wars-new-governments-stormy-weather-watch-2025
In this episode, we sit down with Rahul Bajaj and Shitiz Ruhail, the founders of Digital Darwin—a deep-tech platform revolutionizing sports performance and athlete training through AI, computer vision, and integrated analytics. They share how their platform is helping elite athletes and coaches fine-tune training methods, predict performance improvements, and ultimately unlock human potential. From analyzing motion and form to providing nutrition insights via AI-driven models, Digital Darwin is bringing cutting-edge technology to the sports ecosystem. Whether you're interested in the future of sports science, AI's impact on high-performance training, or the entrepreneurial journey in building a deep-tech startup, this conversation has something for you. Timestamps/Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:02 Meet the Founders: Rahul Bajaj & Shitiz Ruhail 00:41 Backgrounds: From Healthcare & Tech to Sports Innovation 03:41 Origin of the Name “Digital Darwin” & Vision Behind the Venture 05:59 Real-World Examples: Elevating Athlete Performance with Data & AI 09:01 Beyond the Buzz: Explaining the Different “Flavors” of AI 12:46 Applying Computer Vision & LLMs for Athlete Training 20:41 Computer Vision in Action: Ensuring Correct Form & Reducing Injury 27:53 Scaling Up: Supporting 3,000+ Elite Athletes 29:48 Case Studies & Success Stories from National Centers of Excellence 31:49 Go-To-Market Strategy: Who Pays & How They Reach the Market 36:27 Customization vs. Standardization Across Different Sports 41:17 Reflections on Entrepreneurship & Building a Deep-Tech Startup 55:46 Closing Remarks & Future Outlook
Today's guests: Michael Flynn, Global Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Government lead for Deloitte Ireland Jamie Sawchuk, national leader for Government and Public Services Alliances and Ecosystems for Deloitte Canada Carolyn Murnaghan, national leader for Climate Adaptation and Resilience for Deloitte Canada Christina Crue, emergency manager and advisory principal for Deloitte & Touche LLP Justin Dawe, founder and CEO of Earth Force Technologies Communities across the world are feeling the effects of climate change. That's unlikely to change any time soon. According to the World Meteorological Organization, 2023 was the hottest year on record. The National Centers for Environmental Information estimates there's a 97% chance that 2024 will break that record. The result of this warming—an increasing number of extreme weather events. The world is seeing more of these events, and they are increasing in severity. Governments, private sector innovators, and communities are working together to respond to, track, and mitigate the effects of extreme weather events. Solutions range from the tried and tested, like levees and spillways, to new and emerging technology, like AI and advanced sensing technology. To discuss these solutions, Tanya Ott is joined by Michael Flynn, Global Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Government lead for Deloitte Ireland; Jamie Sawchuk, national leader for Government and Public Services Alliances and Ecosystems for Deloitte Canada; Carolyn Murnaghan, national leader for Climate Adaptation and Resilience for Deloitte Canada; Christina Crue, emergency manager and advisory principal for Deloitte & Touche LLP; and Justin Dawe, founder and CEO of Earth Force Technologies. They discuss the challenges communities face and the potential solutions that may make a difference. Perhaps more importantly, they focus on the mindset shift that this new weather reality is bringing to communities all over the world. “Traditionally. you buy insurance for something that might happen once every 30 years,” said Sawchuk. “But when it's happening once every other year, once every five years, we need to respond differently. We need to build differently. We need to plan differently. So, we're getting ahead of the risk versus just responding to the risk. And I think that's foundational. We need to mitigate the risk versus just buy insurance against it.”
Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is a Climatologist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), specializing in climate data, analysis, severe weather research, and improving access to historical weather data sets. Jared Rennie, welcome back to the show! Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com. Health of NCEI Database post-Helene (07:45) Pre-Helene North Carolina heavy rain event (16:30) Limitations on forecasting impacts of significant severe weather (29:45) Compound hazards/Cascading disasters (33:00) What would a successful evacuation look like in coastal areas? (39:40) Public reaction concerning the messaging of Helene's effects (01:09:00) Hurricane Oscar and it's surprises with forecasters/modeling (01:22:23) The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (01:18:20) This Week in Tornado History With Jen (01:20:40) E-Mail Segment (No segment this week) National Weather Round-Up (01:21:45) and more! Web Sites from Episode 979: Jared Rennie on X Picks of the Week: Jared Rennie - Project Jupyter Jared Rennie - North Carolina continues to search for Helene victims after monster storm - 60 Minutes James Aydelott - Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Jen Narramore - Out Rick Smith - Out Neil Jacobs - List of NOAA Open Data Dissemination Program Datasets Troy Kimmel - Foghorn Kim Klockow-McClain - Hurricane Helene: Storm Decision Fatigue Is Getting to Me Bill Murray - Foghorn James Spann - Spann Says - Substack The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, Dr. Neil Jacobs, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.
#helene #hurricane #tropics #severeweather #northcarolina #southcarolina #weather #ncwx #scwx #podcast When Hurricane Helene flooded the mountains of western North Carolina causing widespread power outages, destruction and evacuations, the nation's weather archives went offline. That's because the data lives in Asheville, North Carolina at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, where the government archives and backups more than 60 petabytes of historical weather data. In just the past week, as Helene relief efforts continue across the region, NCEI has been able to return products and services to online status. While many data products continue to be updated as a result of the outage caused by Hurricane Helene, the center says they're most grateful all of their employees and staff have been accounted for. Additionally, all data holdings –including paper and film records– were unharmed in the storm. This week on the Carolina Weather Group, NCEI's Jared Rennie returns to the show to discuss the restoration of services, his experience with Helene and the remaining needs of his community in the aftermath of the storm. If you would like to donate to help the people of the Carolinas as a Carolina Weather Group listener, you can donate to the American Red Cross using our special link: http://bit.ly/wxpodstelethon. The American Red Cross is also available to assist at 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767).
First on today's show, Ralph welcomes back Dr. Bandy Lee to discuss her recent conference, "The More Dangerous State of the World and the Need for Fit Leadership—The Much More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump". Then, Ralph is joined by Professor Ted Postol to talk about the missiles and rockets (and other weapons) being used in the expanding war(s) in the Middle East. [Nadia Milleron] went down to Springfield, the state capitol, and met with every assembly member, saying—for future wrongful death, you should give people in Illinois the opportunity to file for punitive damages against these corporate defendants, or other similarly-positioned defendants. And she got it through—it was considered impossible to beat Boeing, and she got it through and the governor signed it. That's the determination of a parent who loses a child to corporate crimeRalph NaderDr. Bandy Lee is a medical doctor, a forensic psychiatrist, and a world expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years before joining the Harvard Program in Psychiatry and the Law. She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition, an educational organization that assembles mental health experts to collaborate with other disciplines for the betterment of public mental health and public safety. She is the editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President and Profile of a Nation: Trump's Mind, America's Soul.Let me clarify that there's a distinction among the evaluations that mental health experts do—one is diagnostic, the other is functional. And the diagnostic exam is the one that mental health professionals have no business doing on a public figure because that's what you do in private therapy sessions, and you diagnose someone in order to outline their course of treatment. But a functional assessment is something you do for the public—and that includes unfitness or dangerousness—and these kinds of comments are not only permitted, they are part of our societal responsibility because we are responsible not just for private individual patients, but for the public, for society.Dr. Bandy LeeDonald Trump is not an isolated phenomenon. He is a product of the system that has come before him and he is an accelerator of the dangers that succeed him. I do not believe that a Biden presidency would have been this dangerous without a Trump presidency preceding him. Dr. Bandy LeeTed Postol is Professor of Science, Technology and National Security Policy Emeritus in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. His expertise is in nuclear weapon systems, including submarine warfare, applications of nuclear weapons, ballistic missile defense, and ballistic missiles more generally. He previously worked as an analyst at the Office of Technology Assessment and as a science and policy adviser to the chief of naval operations. In 2016, he received the Garwin Prize from the Federation of American Scientists for his work in assessing and critiquing the government's claims about missile defenses.I do not want to appear like I don't think it matters, but at the same time, it's been provoked to the point that it's amazing that the Iranians have restrained themselves to this point. But the Iranians know that they're going to suffer heavy damage from Israel. They have not wanted to go to war. They have shown great wisdom and restraint in spite of the situation.Ted PostolWhat the Israelis want—this guy Netanyahu in particular, who I think is delusional besides being psychopath—what Netanyahu wants, he wants a decisive victory. Again, let me underscore that—a decisive victory against Iran and also Hezbollah and Gaza, these poor victims of his genocide in Gaza. He can't do that. He's going to kill God knows how many more people in his effort—which is already a crime against humanity that's beginning to look like the Holocaust—but he's not going to defeat Hezbollah in a decisive way. Ted PostolIn Case You Haven't Heard with Francesco DeSantisNews 10/2/241. ProPublica reports “The U.S. government's two foremost authorities on humanitarian assistance [USAID and the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration] concluded this spring that Israel had deliberately blocked deliveries of food and medicine into Gaza.” Yet just days later, instead of acting upon this information, Secretary of State Antony Blinken misled Congress telling lawmakers “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance [to Gaza].” In USAID's report, the agency laid out specific examples of Israeli interference, including “killing aid workers, razing agricultural structures, bombing ambulances and hospitals, sitting on supply depots and routinely turning away trucks full of food and medicine.” The State Department Refugee bureau separately concluded that “the Foreign Assistance Act should be triggered to freeze almost $830 million in taxpayer dollars earmarked for weapons and bombs to Israel, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.” Yet because Blinken refused to accept these facts and instead opted to lie to Congress, the weapons pipeline to Israel continues to flow unimpeded. Some, including Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, have called on Blinken to resign, per the Middle East Monitor.2. On September 27th, Israel assassinated Hezbollah Secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah. According to NBC, the Israelis made this decision “after concluding [Nasrallah] would not accept any diplomatic solution to end the fighting on the Israel-Lebanon border that was not tied to an end to the war in Gaza.” Through this assassination, and the assassination of Hamas Political Bureau chairman Ismail Haniyeh earlier this year, Israel has made clear that they would rather resort to extrajudicial killings than negotiate an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Israel now plans to invade Southern Lebanon, further escalating this conflict into a regional war, with the full backing of the United States.3. Following the pager and walkie-talkie attacks in Lebanon, the office of Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib issued a statement decrying that “The Biden-Harris administration continues to allow Netanyahu and the Israeli government to operate with impunity as they carry out war crimes. After facing no red line in Gaza…Netanyahu is now expanding his genocidal campaign to Lebanon…Deploying more U.S. troops and sending more U.S. bombs will only lead to more suffering and carnage. The...administration is capable of stopping the bloodshed. President Biden must implement an immediate arms embargo to end the slaughter and de-escalate the risk of a wider regional war.” Yet, far from de-escalating, the Biden administration has stood by while Netanyahu has escalated further, with increasing signs that the situation will tip over into a full-scale regional war between Israel and Iran. Dark days indeed could be ahead.4. This week, Hurricane Helene cleaved a “500-mile path of destruction” stretching from Florida to the Southern Appalachians, per CNN. So far, the casualties include at least 128 dead and whole communities wiped off the map. Yet, this devastation is not limited merely to peoples' homes and communities. In a darkly ironic twist, “Hurricane Helene's severe flooding [in Asheville, North Carolina] knocked offline the top tracker of U.S. and global climate data, including of extreme weather…The National Centers for Environmental Information,” or NCEI. According to the NCEI, “Even those who are physically safe are generally without power, water or connectivity,” per Axios. And just outside Atlanta, Vox reports “Amid the devastation and mass flooding…A chemical fire [at BioLab] released a massive plume of potentially toxic gasses into the air.” Officials issued a shelter-in-place order Sunday evening covering Rockdale County, home to around 90,000 people. EPA testing detected signs of chlorine gas in the air. Fulton County, which includes parts of Atlanta, has reported “a haze and strong chemical smell.”5. Last week, the International Trade Union Confederation published a report accusing “Some of the world's largest companies of undermining democracy across the world by financially backing far-right political movements, funding and exacerbating the climate crisis, and violating trade union rights and human rights.” This report specifically names Amazon, Tesla, Meta, ExxonMobil, Blackstone, Vanguard and Glencore. This report cites a litany of damning acts by these corporations – ranging from union busting and environmental degradation to funding of far-right and anti-indigenous movements around the globe – but makes the fundamental point that “This is about power, who has it, and who sets the agenda. …They're playing the long game, and it's a game about shifting power away from democracy at every level into one where they're not concerned about the effects on workers – they're concerned about maximizing their influence and their extractive power and their profit…Now is the time for international and multi-sectoral strategies, because these are, in many cases, multinational corporations that are more powerful than states, and they have no democratic accountability whatsoever, except for workers organized.” Per the Guardian, “the ITUC includes labor group affiliates from 169 nations…representing 191 million workers…the federation is pushing for an international binding treaty…to hold transnational corporations accountable under international human rights laws.”6. Yet, although these corporations are being called out for their role in undermining democracy, the Biden administration is granting many of them large sums of money via the newly announced “Partnership for Global Inclusivity on AI.” According to the State Department, this partnership will bring together the Department of State, Amazon, Anthropic, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI to “promote inclusivity, respect for human rights, digital solidarity, and equitable access to the benefits of AI globally.” As the American Prospect's Luke Goldstein notes, every single one of the companies listed are currently facing lawsuits or are under investigation by either the Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission, and two of these corporations were clients of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's during his time as a consultant at WestExec Advisors. And in California, Variety reports Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, a bill that “sought to ward off catastrophic risks of highly advanced [AI] models…[that] could be used to develop chemical or nuclear weapons.” This bill was strongly supported by SAG-AFTRA.7. A new article in the Atlantic makes the case that “Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake.” On a previous program we discussed how the “widespread legalization of sports gambling over the past five years has [led to a] roughly 28% increase in bankruptcies and an 8% increase in debt transferred to debt collectors,” along with substantial increases in auto loan delinquencies and use of debt consolidation loans. Beyond the financial damages however, this piece cites a new University of Oregon study that found in places where sports gambling is legalized, a loss by the home NFL team increases intimate partner violence by approximately 10%. As Deseret News put the question, “If, after six years, a law was discovered to be encouraging domestic violence while causing people, especially the poor, to lose what little money they could put toward savings, what would be the correct next step?”8. On September 24th, the Federal Trade Commission took action against Invitation Homes, the country's largest landlord of single-family homes, for “an array of unlawful actions against consumers, including deceiving renters about lease costs, charging undisclosed junk fees, failing to inspect homes before residents moved in, and unfairly withholding tenants' security deposits when they moved out.” The FTC complaint cites a 2019 email from Invitation Homes' CEO “calling on the senior vice president responsible for overseeing the company's fee program to ‘juice this hog'” by making additional fees mandatory for renters. This action comes as “Democrats Are Torn Between Donors and Their Base,” over the high-profile FTC Chair Lina Khan, Wired reports. While many billionaire Democratic donors have publicly called for Khan's ouster, polling shows around “80 percent of Democrats feel that the government should be doing more to take on corporate monopolies, compared to only 3 percent who say it should be doing less...[and] Nearly 90 percent of Democrats…feel that lobbyists and corporate executives hold too much power over the government.” To his credit, powerful House Democrat Jim Clyburn recently defended Khan when asked whether she should be fired, saying “… fired for what? For doing [her] job?…I suspect that people who represent Invitation Homes may want her to be replaced by somebody who would not do their [job],” per the Huffington Post.9. POLITICO Europe has published a shocking exposé documenting “the atrocities carried out during the summer of 2021 by a [Mozambican] commando unit led by an officer who said his mission was to protect ‘the project of Total.'” The “Total” in question being TotalEnergies, the French energy titan operating an enormous liquid natural gas plant in the Southeast African country. According to this report, “villagers had been caught in the crossfire between the Mozambican army and ISIS-affiliated militants. Having fled their homes, they had gone to seek the protection of government soldiers. Instead…[t]he soldiers accused the villagers of being members of the insurgency. They separated the men — a group of between 180 and 250 — from the women and children. Then they crammed their prisoners into… shipping containers…hitting, kicking and striking them with rifle butts. The soldiers held the men in the containers for three months. They beat, suffocated, starved, tortured and finally killed their detainees. Ultimately, only 26 prisoners survived.” Beyond this horrific massacre, this piece investigates the complex relationship between the Mozambican government, the Islamist insurgency, and French energy interests operating in Mozambique.10. Finally, on the eve of the inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's incoming president and the first ever Jewish head of state in North America, tensions are mounting between the country and its northern neighbor, the United States. On his way out, popular left-wing president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, has declared a Yucatán port owned by Alabama-based Vulcan Materials a nature reserve in a move that the company is calling “expropriation.” According to Reuters, the company has quarried limestone in Mexico for over three decades and AMLO has long criticized their activities as environmentally damaging. AMLO also offered offered up to 7 billion pesos or $362 million for the land, but Vulcan rejected the offer. In response to AMLO's move, Republican Senators Katie Britt of Alabama and John Cornyn of Texas sent a letter “threatening Mexico with ‘crushing consequences' if the incoming Administration of Claudia Sheinbaum,” doesn't reverse this decision, per José Díaz Briseño of Reforma. This vague saber rattling raises the question, voiced by decorated journalist Ryan Grim, “Are Senate Republicans threatening some kind of coup”?This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe
Clear Skies Ahead: Conversations about Careers in Meteorology and Beyond
We talk to Stephanie Herring about the diversity of opportunities in the government sector, the impacts of climate on human health, and learning how your unique skillset can benefit weather, water, and climate industries. Episode transcript Hosted by Emma Collins and Kelly SavoieEdited by Johnny LeTheme music composed and performed by Steve Savoie Visit AMS Career Resources on the web! Contact us at skypodcast@ametsoc.org with any feedback or if you'd like to become a future guest. Copyright © 2024 American Meteorological Society
Guest: Jared Rennie, NCEI Research MeteorologistGathering and analyzing data today to help us prepare for tomorrow. One sentence with a multitude of implications. NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information seeks to provide not just data, but solutions to help the U.S. and those around the world as our climate continues to change. Jared Rennie is a Research Meteorologist with NCEI and works to support the integration of both climate and socioeconomic data. His work encompasses an operational as well as a research aspect with respect to software used in data processing.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The University of West Florida placed second in the 2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award Competition, which is given by the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Community. UWF Cyber Ambassadors program is an important part of the center's community outreach. Guy Garrett leads the program.
Guest: Adam Smith, NOAA / NCEIEpisode Intro: 2023 set the record for the most billion dollar disasters in the United States in one calendar year. As the name suggests, a billion dollar disaster is a weather or climate disaster event with losses exceeding one billion dollars. From flooding to drought, winter storms to hurricanes, there were 28 billion dollar disasters last year. Our next guest is the lead scientist for the National Centers for Environmental Information Billion-dollar Weather and Climate Disasters analysis. Welcome to the show Adam Smith…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Travel through 50,000 years of human history following clues hidden inside beads made from ostrich eggshells. In this episode, researchers Jennifer Miller and Yiming Wang share how these tiny artifacts reveal a sweeping story of ancient social networks, cultural connections, and human adaptability. Support the show Help us make more episodes! All tax-deductible donations to Origin Stories will be quadruple-matched! >>>> Please click here to make a one-time or monthly donation. Guests Dr. Jennifer Miller Dr. Yiming Wang Links to learn more Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 50,000-year-old social network in Africa (open access) An ancient social safety net in Africa was built on beads Are these snail shells the world's oldest known beads? Zambezi basin (Wikipedia) Paleoclimatology info and interactive paleoclimate map (National Centers for Environmental Education Sponsors and credits This episode was generously sponsored by Leakey Foundation Fellow Eddie Kislinger in honor of his wife, jewelry designer Cathy Waterman. Her designs are inspired by nature and influenced by her study of and connection with ancient human history. We are grateful to them for making this episode possible. Additional support comes from Jeanne Newman, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, the Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund, and our listener-supporters. Origin Stories is produced by Ray Pang. Our editor is Audrey Quinn. Theme music by Henry Nagle. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions and Lee Roservere.
Last year was by far the warmest year on record globally. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and European datasets all confirm the numbers. That means the 10 warmest years on record globally are the past 10 years.How do climate scientists explain this unprecedented warming trend?Jared Rennie is a research scientist with NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information and he discussed what we should take away from the numbers.
For today's episode, we're joined by Avery Paxton, who is a Research Marine Biologist with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Chris Taylor, Research Ecologist, also with NOAA's NCCOS, and Melanie Damour, who is a Marine Archeologist and the Environmental Studies Coordinator with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's Gulf of Mexico Region Office. They were here to discuss their recent BioScience article on "Shipwreck Ecology," and the ways in which these sites can be hotspots for biodiversity—and also for research. Read the article here. Captions can be found on YouTube.
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This past July, Earth reached the hottest temperature since record-keeping began, according to the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction. And the record-breaking temperatures are impacting everything from our bodies, to our food supplies to the habitability of the planet. Meanwhile, Texas Governor Abbot recently signed legislation prohibiting localities from passing any laws that require shade or water breaks for outdoor construction workers. As we continue to see the devastating effects of rising temps, it's clear we need to rethink how we conceptualize and deal with heat. Our guest this week points out that simply cranking up our A.C. units isn't the way out of this and that we instead need to urgently reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Jeff Goodell is author of “The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet” and a contributor writer at Rolling Stone. Goodell joins WITHpod to discuss the deleterious ways extreme heat impacts every living thing, what rising temps reveal about fault lines in governments and more.
In this podcast, we dig into the science behind sand: how it's formed, the benefits it provides ecosystems, and the protection it offers coastal communities. Dr. Matt Kendall, a marine biologist with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, joins us.
#11 — Peter Shen is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Utah. In this episode of Cryo-Talk, Peter joins Eva Amsen to talk about the CryoEM 101 course he co-developed and how this led to merit badges for the National Centers for CryoEM. They also talk about boardgames, basketball, and making music. Watch or listen to all episodes of the Cryo-Talk podcast here: https://cryo-talk.bitesizebio.com
美国国家海洋和大气管理局最新发布的报告显示，全球海水温度持续上升，多地水温均超过了平均水平。如果海水和大气的表面温度继续升高，2023年可能会成为有史以来最热的年份。Scientists have gathered further evidence that ocean waters are continuing to warm along with the rest of the planet.科学家收集到了更多证据证明，和地球其他地方一样，海水也在继续升温。Ocean temperatures reached record-breaking highs for the month of May, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced during its monthly climate call on Thursday.美国国家海洋和大气管理局6月15日发布的全球气候月度报告称，5月份海洋温度创下了历史新高。Four main factors are contributing to such historic warming of global sea surface temperatures: human-induced climate change, a developing El Nino event, effects from the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption and a new shipping emissions policy aimed at reducing air pollution, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.洛杉矶加州大学的气候学家丹尼尔·斯温指出，全球海洋表面温度的破纪录高温是由四个主要因素导致的：人为引起的气候变化、发展中的厄尔尼诺事件、2022年洪加汤加-洪加哈派火山喷发和旨在减少空气污染的船舶排放新政策的影响。Some regions are experiencing temperatures up to 7 degrees higher than average for this time of year. In Cabo Verde Island, where hurricanes typically form, the water is typically 75 degrees Fahrenheit but is currently measuring at 82.4 degrees.一些地区的海水温度比同期平均水平高出了7华氏度。在经常遭遇飓风的佛得角岛屿，海水温度通常是75华氏度（24摄氏度），但现在测得的温度是82.4华氏度（28摄氏度）。Combined, land and ocean temperatures in May were the third warmest on record, with surface temperatures increasing about 0.97 degrees Celsius, or 1.75 degrees Fahrenheit, above the 20th century average, Rocky Bilotta, climatologist for the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, told reporters.美国国家海洋和大气管理局国家环境信息中心的气候学家洛基·毕洛塔告诉记者，今年5月陆地和海洋的平均温度之高位居史上第三名，表面温度比20世纪的平均水平高出约0.97摄氏度。Temperatures were above average throughout most of North America, South America and Africa. Parts of Western Europe, Northwestern Russia, Southeast Asia and the Arctic also experienced warmer than average temperatures this month, Bilotta said.毕洛塔介绍，北美、南美和非洲的大部分地区的温度都超过了平均值。西欧、俄罗斯西北部、东南亚和北极的部分地区5月也经历了比平均水平更高的温度。The warmest global record for the time period between March and May was also reached, according to NOAA.美国国家海洋和大气管理局指出，3月至5月期间的温度也达到了史上最高水平。2023 is very likely to rank among the 10 warmest years on record, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information statistical analysis that was released in April. Should warmer ocean and air surface temperatures continue, 2023 could become the warmest year on record.环境信息中心4月发布的统计分析报告也显示，2023年很可能会成为史上十大最热年之一。如果海水和大气的表面温度继续升高，2023年可能会成为有史以来最热的年份。Scientists anticipate that the current high temperatures could increase in the coming weeks and set record-shattering numbers, which could spell disaster for coastal communities all over the world.科学家预期，未来数周海洋的这种高温天数会增多并可能打破纪录，这可能会给世界各地的沿海社区带来灾难。Warmer ocean waters can contribute to more powerful tropical storms and impact marine life. In addition, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture and can increase potential flooding events. Melting sea ice in the Arctic is also causing sea levels to rise, which is eroding coastlines.海水温度升高会引发更猛烈的热带风暴并影响海洋生物。此外，湿热的空气含有更多水分，这会增大发生洪水的风险。北极融化的海冰也会导致海平面升高，从而侵蚀海岸线。Earlier this week, thousands of fish washed up at the Quintana Beach County Park on Texas' Gulf Coast, likely due to warming waters, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Kills and Spills team.本周早些时候，在美国得克萨斯州墨西哥湾沿岸的金塔纳海滩县公园，数千条死鱼被冲上海滩。得州公园和野生动物厅捕杀和泄露小组表示，这可能是由水温升高导致的。"Fish kills like this are common in the summer when temperatures increase," the department said in a statement. "If there isn't enough oxygen in the water, fish can't 'breathe'."得州公园和野生动物厅在声明中称：“夏天温度升高时这种鱼群死亡事件很常见。如果水中没有足够氧气，鱼就不能‘呼吸'。”Ocean英 /ˈəʊʃn/美 /ˈoʊʃn/n.海洋Temperature英 /'temp(ə)rətʃə/美 /'tɛmprətʃɚ/n. 温度Marine英 /məˈriːn/美 /məˈriːn/adj. 海的，海产的，海生的
In 1896, the cities of St. Louis and East St. Louis were enjoying an economic boom that led to skyscrapers, mansions, and a 'tornado-proof' bridge connecting the two cities. That progress was unfortunately paused at the end of May, when an F4 tornado went straight through the downtowns of both cities. On this episode, Ella and our special guest host discuss architecture, bridges, tornado damage, and a building made of popsicle sticks. Sources for this episode include: “The Great Cyclone of 1896” Digital exhibit at St. Louis Public Library “Tornadoes in the Past”, The Tornado Project, 1999 “The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896, Being A Full History of the Most Terrifying and Destructive Tornado In The History Of The World”, by J Curzon, 1897 “On This Day: The Great St. Louis Tornado of 1896”, staff writer for NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information website, 2017 “It all Happened in 20 Minutes: In 1896, The Great Cyclone Ripped Through St. Louis”, T. O'Neill, St Louis Post Dispatch, 2022
Most of us have defining moments that made us fall in love with the world, space, and the environment. It is most often this love and connection that starts us on a path for sustainability and activism against climate change. Dorian Janney is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission and in today's episode she shares her story and the science of her job with us. In her present role, she educates in multiple settings and across various grade levels with a focus on science, technology, and real-world applications of GPM. She is a member of the GLOBE program and is an active mentor. As the GPM Education and Outreach Coordinator, Dorian Janney focuses on providing educational and informational data to students, educators, and everyday people. She brings people from all walks of life together to maximize NASA's resources, information, and data. In this episode, join us as Dorian Janney walks us through how GPM data is acquired, its significance, what the scientific community is noticing, and on how we as listeners and activists can make a real impact and assist NASA and other organizations in data collection and communication. Highlighted links from today's episode: The GLOBE App (assist in making environmental observations) https://observer.globe.gov/about/get-the-app The National Centers for Environmental Information: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/ Global Climate Change (NASA's data on Climate Change): https://climate.nasa.gov/ Global Climate Change (NASA's collection of ideas and possible solutions for Climate Change): https://climate.nasa.gov/solutions/earth-science-in-action/?page=0&per_page=40&order=publish_date+desc%2C+created_at+desc&search=&href_query_params=category%3Dapplied_science&url_suffix=%3Fcategory%3D147&category=147 The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters information and data: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/ GPM Data: https://gpm.nasa.gov/data GPM Precipitation Education (Who is using GPM Data): https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/whos-using-GPM-data GPM Mission (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission TRMM): https://gpm.nasa.gov/missions/trmm
The number of billion dollar weather disasters in the United States has jumped in recent years. Lead Scientist on the NOAA quarterly report, Adam Smith, talks about how they arrive at those figures, what types of disasters are most expensive, and what part of the country is most vulnerable. We want to hear from you! Have a question for the meteorologists? Call 609-272-7099 and leave a message. You might hear your question and get an answer on a future episode! About the Across the Sky podcast The weekly weather podcast is hosted on a rotation by the Lee Weather team: Matt Holiner of Lee Enterprises' Midwest group in Chicago, Kirsten Lang of the Tulsa World in Oklahoma, Joe Martucci of the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., and Sean Sublette of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Hello, everybody. I'm meteorologist Sean Sublette and welcome to Across the Sky, our National Lee Enterprises weather podcast. Lee Enterprises has print and digital news operations in 77 locations across the country, including in my home base in Richmond, Virginia. I'm joined by my colleagues from across the sky, Matt Holiner in Chicago, Joe Martucci at the Jersey Shore. Our colleague Kirsten Lang continues to take a little time off in Tulsa for a few weeks. Gentlemen, we've got a great guest this week. We've all heard about the billion dollar disasters report. Adam Smith from NCI. That's Noah. National Centers of Environmental Information is joining us to talk all about this, because this this is fascinating stuff. I mean, some of this can get very complex and deep into the weeds. So Adam does a really good job, I think, talking about how they come up with this data and why it's relevant. Yeah. And most of us across the country have been hit by some billion dollar disasters since they've been tracking this year, going back to, I believe it was 1980. So it's something that probably has impacted you, whether you remember it or not. So we were happy to have Adam on in the end to drop his knowledge on us here for our podcast. And really what caused us to reach out to Adam is when they came out with their report at the beginning of May, looking at just the for the first four months of the year, we've already had $7 billion disasters and that's the second most all time if they've started keeping records in 1980. And probably what's more remarkable is if you look at the average number of billion dollar disasters for the entire year from 1980 to 2022, it's $8 billion disasters in the entire year. And we've already had seven in the first four months. So that is not what we want to see. But that's been the recent trend because if you look at just the last five years, 2018 to 2022, we've had $18 billion disasters on average. So in the last five years the average is 18. When you go back to 1980, the average is eight. So there is a clear uptick in the number of billion dollar disasters. So we had to get Adam on that talk about, yeah, fortunately he was telling us so much of this was driven by a very recent uptick in tropical cyclones slash hurricanes. We also talk about the droughts. You know, there's long term drought that until this past winter has been plaguing the western United States. So we get into all those things. We'll also talk about, you know, some of the intricacies of this and why it's sometimes the data is misinterpreted. So we'll get to all of that as we begin our conversation with Adam Smith at the National Centers for Environmental Information. And we welcome Adam Smith, visible scientist at the Climate Sciences and Services Division at the Noah National Center for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina. He is the lead researcher for the quarterly Billion dollar Disasters Report, and he has been involved in the nexus of climate and weather risk for more than a decade. Adam, welcome and thank you for taking the time with us on the podcast. Thank you for having me. So I wanted to started at the big level because a lot of this stuff is kind of esoteric or for the home listeners, home viewers. So take us at a top down level. Our is this kind of stuff quantified in terms of this disaster? Is this amount of money? This disaster is this amount of money? You aggregate this up. So at the bigger level, how was this done? So to do this type of analysis require is a broad array of public and private sector partners. For example, the insurance and reinsurance industry, of course, even the catastrophe modelers also federal agencies like FEMA, USDA, the National Interagency Fire Center, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Energy Information Administration, and at the state level, of course, state agencies and management authorities, they have a lot of data pre and post disaster. And so we're looking at quantify in total direct losses across about 16 different asset classes using the combination of that public and private sector data. So this would be insured, under-insured and uninsured damages to homes, to businesses, to government buildings like schools, the contents of all of these structures. Even time element losses such as business interruption or loss of living quarters. When you're out of your home lost, being repaired or rebuilt. But there's other assets even that the private sectors that often pay attention to as comprehensively, for example, public assets, roads, bridges, levee systems, even the Department of Defense, military bases, electrical grids are also something we look at as far as damage that's also a public private partnership and damage to to vehicles, to boats, to offshore energy platforms. And finally, the agriculture sector, of course, is heavily impacted by heat waves, cold waves and drought. So we look at crops, livestock being calls that increase in particular with drought damage to commercial timber, often with hurricanes in the southeast and wildfire fighting suppression costs. So those are the 16 different asset classes that we have homogeneous data over space and time. Going back many decades. That's consistently available. But it's equally important to know what we are not able to capture. So that would be things like non-market losses to environmental damage, environmental degradation, a natural capital, those type of losses, mental and physical health care related costs, which are likely substantial in the downstream ripple effects outside of a hazard region. There's also not quantified, so you could say this is a conservative but solid baseline estimate. Another piece of the puzzle would be one of the first key transformations we make would be the reciprocal of the insurance penetration rate, which varies by asset, by region and by hazard. Because we're looking at hurricanes, severe storm events like tornado hail and high wind events, heat waves, cold waves, winter storms, wildfire drought and urban flooding and river basin flooding. And some of those are very discrete events. And M.S., a day to day, three days like a severe storm complex or a hail storm. But some we treat more seasonal like droughts and wildfires because they're often slow onset events that get more impactful, particularly in the fall as the West dries out, as we've seen many times in recent years. Hey, Adam, it's Matt. So looking through April of this year, there were seven confirmed $2 billion assets. But what I noticed is underneath that, you lost three more potential billion dollar disasters. And I'm just curious, what is the difference there? Why are there three additional ones that could not be confirmed yet? You have seven confirmed billion dollars of three additional ones that cannot be confirmed yet. So what's the what does it take to become a confirmed billion dollar disaster versus these preliminary ones? Yes, that's a great question. This is this is a new feature we just added in recent months based on user feedback and requests. So that has to do with the data latency across all these different public and private data sources. We partner with the data latency, basically a fancy word for how long it takes a data to mature and stabilize. That varies based on the size and the impact, the intensity of an event. So we like to probe. Probably one month is about the bare minimum for the smallest billion dollar disaster event, like a hailstorm in Colorado, for example, whereas hurricanes could take many months, you know, six months or more. As we've seen in Florida, often times the claims process continues and continues. So this provides this section you're talking about the potential billion dollar disaster events. It kind of pulls back the curtain a little bit to say what events are we looking at as far as the data maturity that may be added to the list in the coming months? And correct me if I'm wrong, but if those three were confirmed, that would put us at ten through the first four months of year, which would be a new record because the current record is $8 billion disasters in 2017 and 2020, right? That would be correct. So these are not yet confirmed, but if they were all confirmed, we would be on a record base. That's correct. I mean, I'm going to parlayed and said more of a, let's say, 30,000 feet view of this where we've been over the past couple of decades with these billion dollar disasters. And I'll note, I know you adjust for inflation so the numbers are accurate in terms of something in 2000 is the same as now. But also furthermore, you know, where are we seeing what types of events are giving us our biggest increases and as are anything that we've seen, decreases that over time as well, a lot of these different hazards have had frequency and cost trends that are really going in the wrong direction in terms of they're getting worse for different parts of our nation. So if you can remember, the last three hurricane season is 2020 through 2022 were quite active. I believe we had more Category four and Category five landfalling hurricanes on record in that period than most of what the record shows and heard. That and hurricanes to the point are the most costly of these extremes we measure and it makes sense are big, powerful storms. So we have a lot of assets, a lot of population in harm's way along the Gulf Coast, in the southeast. We've also seen a lot of inland flooding events, urban planning events, more in the 20 tens decade than we had in the 1980s, nineties and 2000s combined. It implies, of course, we have more population, more exposure, but climate change is putting its thumb on the scale for some of these extremes, like heavy rainfall in the eastern U.S. As we know, the costliest flaperon equation, everyone see increase in temperature. The water vapor increases and therefore it adds to the heavy rainfall potential, which we've seen. But of course, how we build, where we build the vulnerabilities there, the floodplains, those all go into the to the equations as well. But if we go to the West Coast, you know, we've seen four of the last six wildfire seasons have been pretty off the scale in terms of cost, really almost an order of magnitude more costly than the average wildfire season in place. Yeah, just over the last four decades. Last year in 2022, thankfully, wasn't quite as bad in much of the West, with the exception of a few states like New Mexico and and some of the north central northwestern states. Yes. So so there's a lot of trends are going in the wrong direction. But what I like to highlight is, well, we can learn from this. We can learn from one way wrong, what we can do better in the future because we know these extremes. We're going to continue with exposure, with vulnerability, with climate change, all in the mix. And so I think the key is to learn from them and to mitigate future damages. So looking at 2022, for example, the most costly events were a hurricane in impacted, you know, southwest Florida, but trapped across Florida. And so it had the trifecta of impacts, a storm surge, the very high winds, but the flooding also well inland and really across Florida, many places that are not properly insured for flood insurance. And so that was in excess of 100 billion is is in the top some of the top most costly hurricanes on record. But I think that what sneaks under the radar a bit was the the drought from 2022. It was very expansive and expensive from California to the Mississippi River. This was a $22.2 billion event, really is the most costly drought in the U.S. in a decade, dating back to 2012, which was a very impactful drought. We may still remember. So and drought also people focus on agriculture, aspects of the impacts of drought. But there's also the the the loss of hydropower in parts of the West and California in particular. And as we know, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, they were dredging parts of the Mississippi River to help open up the flow because the low flow was reducing the commerce, the traffic up and down the river. So, yeah, all these impacts from an impact from an asset point of view and from a socioeconomic point of view are multidimensional. And so we have to address our vulnerabilities. Yeah. Before we toss to break, I want to go back to the drought situation in the West because that is such a long evolution event. How our are you able to say, you know, well, this fits into this timeframe, You know, there's one drought or did the drought, you know, you know, we know it's a multi-year, almost multi-decade old drought or they ratification. So how do you decide, okay, well, the drought we're going to fit into this quarter or this specific calendar year, How do you kind of get through that? For example, back in was the 2016 or 2017, there was like a flash drought that impacted North Dakota, South Dakota and maybe Montana, I believe. And it was a more bust, a smaller, isolated, but a very intense drought, you know, d3d for drought conditions, which are the most severe, but since the year 2000, what we've seen more often is just large swaths of the West with, you know, half a dozen to a dozen states that are heavily impacted throughout their growing season of their primary crops, anywhere from D2 to D3 to D4 impacts. And a lot of the states are giving drought designations based on weather is data in the East or G-3 or higher in the West. And so we track, you know, using s and other great drought data and USDA crop insurance data. We track how the maturity of the the crop season correlates with the the drought intensity. You know, often what we've seen is drought in Tennessee with heat in the summer and early fall will spike right when the crops are most vulnerable. And so therefore it amplifies the crop loss and the damages. Also, we see certainly for the larger area droughts and the long duration droughts, which we've seen much since year 2000. In the West, different states will struggle with wildfire cattle feed costs. So we look at cost per ton for things like corn or hay, silage and just that the delta between that year's drought impact price increase versus the five year state cost per ton increase for those feeding commodities. So there's a lot that goes into it and drought is one of the more complex assets to to analyze for as an event. Yeah, because everybody gets a little bit differently I'm sure. All right. So we'll take a little bit of a break. And on the other side, we'll dig a little bit deeper into the weeds about some of the pitfalls and irregularities and difficulties in quantifying this information with Adam Smith from Noah and CGI on the Across the Sky podcast. Stay with us. And we're back on the Across the Sky podcast. Our guest is Adam Smith, the Noah National Centers of Environmental Information, talking about the billion dollar disasters, reports that that come out about every quarter. And I'm I want to talk a little bit about the methodology. So, you know, even when we adjust for inflation, it seems like growing population, that coincident increase in wealth development along the coasts, more people building on property. How do you handle all those things in the report? Historically, inflation using CPI, you A-Z as a means for doing so is what we do, and we adjust that monthly based on the end date of an event or for drought. We use the begin date. But I think a fair question has come up in recent years about adjusting for things like housing population, other assets in harm's way, because we do know that people are moving to the south and the southeast in the west, which are really hot spots for different hazards hurricanes, severe convective storms, drought, flooding, you name it. And so we are actually embarking barking this late summer into fall and looking at some of the different assets and trying to add some additional adjustments. We do actually normalize for things like population or state level GDP. In our mapping section, you can look at any combination of years, any combination of hazards, any individual disaster. Of the 355 separate billion dollar disasters over the last 44 years, you can look at state level analysis that does normalized by population GDP. We just haven't taken that through all of the different pools throughout the entire site. But we're going to do more work on that front. I think one of the challenges, though, is a lot of the literature does talk about using, you know, population density or housing density as ways to normalize. I think that's a start, but I don't think that's a complete answer because we are looking at 16 different asset classes that are highly variables in terms of their spatial distribution, how much the concentration and the value of those have changed where they've happened. So we really need to come up with a more robust strategy to deal with the normalization in a in a really comprehensive way. But we have partners at Treasury, federal agencies and academia that are also looking at similar questions. So this is an active area of research. And Adam know has been keeping track of these billion dollar disasters since 1980. But it does raise the question of why 1980? So why is that the start point and could we look back farther than 1980? Is it possible can we try and calculate, well, how many billion dollar disasters that were in the seventies or sixties, or is there something that's preventing that? Yes, in 1980 when we started doing this work, and I think the reinsurance companies like Munich Reinsurance and Sports Reinsurance have actually looked back pre 1980. But in the United States, looking at the public and private sector data, 1980 in terms of the beginning of a decade is really where we get the first consistent snapshot of the comprehensive homogeneous data over space and time. This was a good starting point. For example, I think the FEMA National Flood Insurance Program data really doesn't really get going until the late seventies, if I'm if I'm not mistaken. But, you know, if you look at some really extreme events like tornado outbreaks, which we had many in the 1970s, because they were so impactful, they killed so many people, they were there historical events, you could do some analysis. I think the caveat would be pre 1980, the farther you go back in time, the larger the error bars would be in terms of the uncertainty of the data in the assumptions and the impact those assumptions would make on the analysis. And so what got you interested in getting into these EO, registering these billion dollar disasters or even working within NCI memory? Always interested and, you know, climate and this kind of information. What what was your journey that brought you here? Yes. So I've worked at NCI since really beginning Charles in five. And this this was kind of a legacy project actually predated my time, of course. But the way it was structured, the data that went into it was it was a comprehensive it wasn't peer reviewed, it was embedded. It was it was not quite as comprehensive as it could have been. So we spent probably five years working at mini partners, developing different data relationships and understanding and writing some papers, having conferences, and then kind of made it more robust and did a reanalysis. But I think in terms of my involvement with it, I've always been kind of a, a natural interdisciplinary thinker. I like I like thinking in that problem space, chaos and uncertainty don't really scare me as much as it might other people. And so I think it's a challenge and it's in frankly, it's just interesting. It's fun to do. And as we've seen over the last seven years, from 2016 through 2022 and 43, these billion dollar disasters have cost over $1 trillion of damage to the United States. It took about 34, 35 years from 1980 through about 2014 to get the first trillion before we got the second trillion in the last seven years. So the point being, you know, there's a lot at stake here in terms of understanding the spatial dimensions of impact, the socioeconomic vulnerabilities and trying to bring that as just one of many different federal data tools to help people unpack and better understand the a data analysis and our tools, not the be all end all. There's been a proliferation of different tools, like FEMA's National Risk Index is a great one, but there's there's probably half a dozen in the last two years. So we're just trying to do our part. And it's a very it's an interesting and active space to research. Now, I have another question for for people who really are not overly familiar with this. Adam, if you could kind of enlighten folks I know everybody's under everybody can understand what insurance is, but can you talk about what reinsurance is? Because that's a term that gets tossed around a lot that I don't think gets a lot of its a lot of explanation. So something like Munich Re Would you would you reference early what what is reinsurance. So yeah, reinsurance is effectively insurance for insurance companies. It's it's when really impactful events like a hurricane Ian hits Florida and causes tens of billions of dollars of insured loss that's so impactful. And so far on the distribution potential as a rare event that insurance companies wisely back up their investments with paying for additional insurance, which are often global bodies like Munich Reinsurance. Willis Reinsurance. But even the public sector, like FEMA's national Flood Insurance Program, has wisely recently started investing more and more in reinsurance layers to basically backstop the federal government payouts for flood insurance. Because as we've seen with hurricanes in particular, like Harvey, like Ian, like Superstorm Sandy in 2012, the costs quickly run up into the billions in terms of just the insured flood losses alone. But the uninsured flood losses are several times often the the insured losses from these events. And Adam, of course, looking at the big picture, we're seeing the number of billion dollar disasters going up. But I wonder if we could dive in a little bit more and talk about regionally, what are these? Are we seeing a particular region that's seeing more events than in the past and also as far as that type of event? So are we seeing a trend in the type of events that are causing billion dollar disasters compared to the eighties and nineties and what we're seeing now? So as far as types of events go in peculiar regions that are really seeing a particular uptick. So looking at the state scale, Texas, Florida and Louisiana would be the top three states In terms of the impact, yeah, Texas is close to $400 billion of total losses from these billion dollar disasters 1980 to present. Florida is also close to 400 billion. Louisiana is above or around 300 billion. And you can dive into all this data online. But if you were to normalize that by population or state GDP, you would see Louisiana certainly has the most acute impacts because they have a much smaller population, much more GDP, economic size than either Texas or Florida. And you can think back to 2020. We had, I think, four or five landfalling hurricanes make landfall and in Louisiana. So it lengthens and makes more costly the cleanup effort. But we saw the same thing last year in Florida with Hurricane Ian hitting. And then four or five weeks later, Hurricane Nicole hitting the other part of Florida and some similar counties had impacts. So this is an example of compound extremes with cascading impacts. And we're seeing that in the Gulf Coast. We're seeing that in in California with wildfire seasons lengthened due to the kind of semi persistent drought. Thankfully, that a lot of that drought's been diminished early in 2022 from absolute rivers. But anyway, we go from drought to wildfire to mud flow. Debris flows in the mountainsides from the burn scars in California. So you get this compound linkage that amplifies the impacts in the national Climate Assessment has has targeted this as a topic and really amplified and put a spotlight on it. So, yeah, certainly certain regions of the country are have been struggling in recent years in terms of high frequency events. And in Austin, these events hit similar areas and populations and even places like Louisiana, people are actually moving out of parts of Louisiana because I think it's just it's just too much to deal with. One thing I kind of, I guess, struggle with my head is that, you know, we're having Morty's billion dollar disasters. At the same time, I feel like there's never been more importance on messaging and emergency management here. Can you link the two? Because we would think that we're trying to be a more weather ready nation at that. That's a NOAA initiative, but we're still seeing Morty's billion dollar disaster. Yeah, I think that one challenges, as we talked about, people are moving of course, to different parts of the country, say they retired, they went to Florida or Texas and they may be from the northeast or somewhere in the Midwest. Well, when you move to a new place, I think it's one besides, you know, picking out where your your your location, where you want to live, you need to know your hazard. You need to know your natural born abilities, what has happened in the past. And you have so many great resources at the federal level, at the state level, academics have have published a lot of great papers looking at, you know, where the extremes and hazards are. And it's not one hazard. Often it's different, it's multifaceted. And so educating yourself in terms of what can happen, but also educating yourself and preparing in case if you are confronted with a high risk and you can actually act on it and protect yourself, your family, your business, your home, your assets. And so it does ultimately come down to the individual. But I think there's, you know, certainly an education process and understanding and some responsibility. And it's at all levels. And we have more than enough events in recent years to learn from and better prepare and for future extremes. Yeah, for sure. We get all kinds of weather across this country for, you know, everybody gets it a little bit differently. And before we let you go, I anything else you want to share where people can find this information online and anything else that y'all are working on that we should look forward to. One thing I did not mention is we worked in recent last few years with FEMA and Census, and we integrated as a county level in the census tract level a lot of socioeconomic vulnerability information and you can compare that with hazard risk or information and the billion dollar disaster information for your for your area, for your region. Yeah, just type. Billion-Dollar Disasters or weather costs in Google and it will come up. But we have many different tools and we're always trying to expand and add more nuance and depth and usefulness to the tools we we're working on developing user reports, dynamic reporting, so that can be developed and you know, like a PDF, you could just take it with you and read it separate from a web page. But there's there's just so much to do in this space. And there, you know, it's not just us, as many different research groups across the federal government, private sector and academia who are doing very valuable and important work in this area. Excellent. And again, thanks so much for joining us on the podcast and for all the work you're doing there, Noah, and give our best to you, everybody who's working there at Noah, NCI in Asheville. A lot to take in there, guys. But I mean, Adam has been doing this for a long time and by that he admits that there's no perfect way to do this for sure. But, you know, I think it's clear that as the as the climate has warmed, we are more at risk. There are more people, there are more things at risk, there's more property risk. And we're going to have to continue to guard against these kinds of weather. Sometimes are cold. Climate disasters are like environmental disasters. Kind of avoid avoid the political political nonsense with this stuff. But the end result, whether it's tropical cyclone, whether it's heavy rain, whether it is locally severe storms, whether it is the drought, flooding, all those things, we are more vulnerable than we have been in the past. And Joe, you know, you brought up the weather resignation and how I do think, you know, we're getting better at communicating and keeping people safe from these extreme weather events. But what we can't do works for, you know, is when these hurricanes are making landfall or when a tornado is tracking across ground, we can get people out of the way of the hurricane. We can get people out of the way of tornado, but we can't get their homes out of the way of these storms even there. And there can be preparations, you know, to make it. You know, we see people put a clipboard in the windows and such. But, you know, when it it's a high level event, there's going to be destruction. And I think, you know, especially, you know, in kind of what Adam mentioned, too, there's a little bit of a concern that people are moving to these places that have more climate disasters. I mean, just historically, Texas, Florida, anywhere along the Gulf Coast, the population has really been rising in the south. And that's typically where we have more of these billion dollar disasters and they're happening more often. So this is what happens. We end up getting more billion dollar disasters as people move to areas that experience more extreme weather. Yeah, and he kind of answered it when I was saying about, you know, emergency management and yeah, like we said, weather ready Nation. But to your point, you know, I mean I think Florida was the had been the fastest growing state since 2020. So a lot of those are going to the coast. Real estate is expensive in Florida. I was just in Sarasota two months ago. Prices are going up over there as well. And that ultimately outstrip the the increase in these disasters, too. And with things like rising sea levels. Yeah, you talk about hurricanes, right? I mean, yeah, if you had 12 inches more of sea level rise in 100 years, well, you know, now that that hurricane that's coming through, you know, is going to be 12 inches higher, what your storm surge and that might go in an extra block and an extra block is an extra million dollars or real estate or whatever it might be. So it's all these incremental things. And that's you know, we talk about climate change. A lot of this is coming in incremental steps. It's not the day after tomorrow where, you know, the Statue of Liberty is frozen in time. That that's how it is shown, right? Is that what happened? The Statue of Liberty? Oh, my God. They can't see me. But I have the little torch in my head now. But what it is, you know, it's these incremental steps. It's, you know, hey, the water's now half a block up the street. This storm now it's a full block up the street. The next storm, you know, and those kind of things add up dollar wise and help create some of these billion dollar disasters as well. You know, and there's a lot of focus on the, you know, tornado outbreaks and the hurricanes that are often the cause of billion dollar disasters. But you know what's interesting, I mean, so far this year, it's mainly just been some regular severe thunderstorm outbreaks, you know, that have been hail. People often forget about how costly ALA is. A lot of times people can get inside and you don't frequently die from hail. You go inside, you're fine. But the damage the hail caused that's been real costly this year and just straight line wind damage, it doesn't take a tornado. You get 60, 70, 80 mile per hour straight line winds and that does a lot of damage. So you don't need tornadoes. You don't need hurricanes at billion dollar disasters. That's really been the biggest problem so far this year. Yeah. Once that wind gets past 55 or 60 miles an hour, that's when we really start to see more physical damage to structures and the like. Gentlemen, I think that's going to be it for this week. But as as you know, and we'll let the folks at home know we've been working on another podcast next week. We're very excited to have the new director of the National Hurricane Center joining us next week, Michael Brennan. I will be here to talk about some of the new products that they've got working for the for the new hurricane season starts June 1st. I talk a little bit about about his role moving from my home state of Virginia through the ranks. NC State and on the way to the as director of the National Hurricane Center So very excited to have Director Brennan join us next week. Joe, I know you've been working on a couple other things that you want to kind of ease the audiences to some things I know you've been working on. Yeah. So we'll start off with we did a collab with Front page Betts on our Lee Enterprises family, so I had my said, Son, we're talking about sports betting and the weather and then we said it last week. It's something of a personal hero of mine, George Shea, Major League eating Commissioner, coming out to talk about the Nathan's hot dog eating contest. That's going to be our July 3rd episode. Talk about SEO Shawn. What better SEO do we have than is putting out on July 3rd a podcast about hot dog eating contest and the weather. And I'll tell you what, I've been to the hot dog eating contest before. It is definitely weather definitely makes a difference because I love having been there and seeing it on TV all these years. Those hot and humid days, just kind of hazy, different than those nice day for it's 82 degrees on the corner surf and still well in Coney Island, New York. Thanks. Thanks for that visual. I'll try not to have nightmares about it. I appreciate it. 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The Lee Weather team goes across the pond to Europe for this episode for a discussion about an unusual type of storm. They look like a hurricane, have nearly the same characters of a hurricane, and now even have names like hurricanes. Called medicanes, they're the Mediterranean Sea's biggest weather beast. The Lee Weather team speaks to Kostas Lagouvardos, Research Director at the National Observatory of Athens. Lagouvardos has studied medicanes since the 1990s, is the foremost authority on the storms, and became the first person to name them. Naming is now done by the Greek government, similar to how hurricanes are named in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. After a powerful storm, Ianos, caused death and devastation in September 2020, his research published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society sparked more interest in the topic. We want to hear from you! Have a question for the meteorologists? Call 609-272-7099 and leave a message. You might hear your question and get an answer on a future episode! About the Across the Sky podcast The weekly weather podcast is hosted on a rotation by the Lee Weather team: Matt Holiner of Lee Enterprises' Midwest group in Chicago, Kirsten Lang of the Tulsa World in Oklahoma, Joe Martucci of the Press of Atlantic City, N.J., and Sean Sublette of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Across the Sky podcast, Lee Enterprises National Weather Podcast. We are in 77 newsrooms all across the country, all corners of the country, but we are not talking about the United States today. We are going across the pond over to Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to talk about Medicaid. Sounds like a hurricane. All north is like a hurricane, but it's what they see in the Mediterranean Sea. We are going to chat with Dr. Kostas legal bartels research director from the National Observatory in Athens, Greece. All about it. You know, guys, I was I'll get through the Bolton the American Meteorological Society. Shout out to the American Meteorological Society. They they do wonders for the weather community. We love being a part of it. And I saw this this piece called Eno's A Hurricane in the Mediterranean. I said, Jesus said, you know, I feel like this would be a good podcast topic because a lot of us can relate to Hurricane. We've either been in one or we've seen plenty of it, you know, on our screens, but it's a little different. You don't expect hurricanes in the Mediterranean and there's some differences. But Kostas is going to talk to us about those differences. You know, I think I think he did a good job explaining it. But I'll turn it over to my weather friends here across the country, Sean Sublette, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Matt Hollander over in the Midwest West. I'll start with you, Matt, here. Did you know much about medications before this topic? No, not until you brought it up. I was like. Hurricanes in the Mediterranean, that that's new to me. But this isn't a new thing. And I would been doing like, Oh, no, these have occurred before. But the difference is it really caught everybody's attention in 2020 when they had an intense well, they actually reached Category two hurricane strength most of the time was going tropical storms. There have been a few they've been a Category one strength. But a lot of times they stay out in the water. And so they're not impacts land. They tend to be weak. But that seems to be changing and that's what we're back. And I'm on the podcast because they had one that made landfall with category due strength. Then suddenly there are big impacts and it looks like there might be a trend that way in the increasing intensity. So we might have to start paying attention to them a little bit closer in the future. And so you seem to know about everything weather at all time. You're you're the expert here of the three of us that did you know about it? I had heard of medications. One of the things that I'm not as well versed on is, is the formation of them. I think we all understand what a tropical cyclone is. It's deriving its energy from from warm water. Right. But there are other kind of physical restrictions going on. You know, the Mediterranean Sea is smaller than than the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. The geography is different. You've got you've got islands poking in from all directions. You've got Italy jutting southward from the continent. And the other thing that that I wasn't well versed on either was how warm does the Mediterranean get? My own mind, I thought, well, it ought to get pretty warm. Does it get as warm as the Gulf of Mexico? So we talked a little bit about that. So there are some restrictions going on here physically. So those were the things that I was was most curious about, you really addressed those? Well, I thought I think he he did a good job with this. You know, there is a little bit of a accent here. You know, we are talking to the Coast Guard who lives in Greece. But I'll tell you what, he knows almost as much English as all of us. And he Dupuy knows a lot more English than I know Italian. So I'll give him credit to that. But fantastic interview. We're going to dive right into it here. Here is Coast us talking all about Medicaid in the Mediterranean. And now we welcome on Dr. Kostas Legal Bartos. He is the research director for the National Observatory of Athens and the Institute for Environmental Research in Athens, Greece. It is just about noon our time here in America. He is joining us this evening. He's got to go to dinner afterwards, but we appreciate you coming on the podcast here today, Kostas, and talking to us all about Medicaid. Thanks you for thanks for the invitation. It is an honor for me to be part of this discussion and explain what's happening right. And we're very happy to have you. And we're happy to go international, too, as well as as we talk about this. So we talked a little bit about this in the introduction, about the medications before we had you on here. But you know, the story that you focused on and your and your research study was called and I say in or. Right, you know, is that the right way? Yes, I've got this. So you title it this a hurricane in the Mediterranean. And yeah, this storm was strong. I mean, you know, for people who are here in the United States listening, I mean, this took place in September of 2020. Unfortunately, four people died, 1400 landslides in two days from this. And maximum sustained winds were 98 miles an hour. To give you an idea of how strong that is, that's like a Category two hurricane. So this was immensely strong. And I want to we will get into that storm. But from my understanding, you've been studying these medications since before since the 20th century. So for over 20 years now. So what got you interested in this is this little field of medications. What got you interested in? I the thing is that is part of the major weather events that we investigate well above to investigate all you made the case, but also severe storms. So severe thunderstorms or even heatwaves because unfortunately, the heat wave also is a it's a it's a natural disaster. Then assignment either. But then they we got to the main event when I was young and I started my work in the observatory at the time, the first satellite images of Sandy was in 1995 and they remember it was it's very it's almost 30 years ago and it was happening. Fascinating because it was like something was that something like as more hurricane at this moment in the middle of the Mediterranean? And it was one of the first made the game as we investigated the thing that I and then a lot of people were scientists. We do that in right and response Spain, Italy and Greece started investigating against and but now we have after this period of almost 50 years of a long track and investigating video games for many scientists in Europe and then with the running more of a grant do that that investigator that that we investigated in full and the last one because it was the big this happened was us it we were we put a lot of in the V.A. because first of what was affected Greece and then because we we realized from the beginning of information that something might be coming next days. Got a little bit later on this one. And finally, was it the event after midday? And according to the wreckage, have so far because of the most intense with attack go to sustained winds if we begin to suffer symptoms. Kate, were you in Greece when this was happening? What was it like actually being there? Yeah, I guess I got a question because we have three, three years ago in 2000, they have another one, similar one, which is repeated, smaller, less infamous. But it was a little bit peculiar because it affected more or less the same areas. Muscle north in Africa to Greece and then back to again south. But this one was fine and it was very, very powerful watching for casualties in central place. And as you said, landslides flattened in many areas. Bay and wind. So storm shelters in the west of this that it's all over Italy, Italy and Greece. And so it was a good opportunity to because now have many, many tools to investigate of more satellite. It will expand later on of the chance to cover groups up in like of a passing. This may be a very good models of many more surface observations you know that to follow the evolution of the middle game and see what what's happening and understand what's happening inside them middle the plane which is not it had a bishop note to them all. And Kostas, to put things in perspective for our audience, what is the frequency like for these meditations? Like how often do they occur? How rare of a situation is this novel? More or less. Well, I know the two per year, the Mediterranean, most of them are the Western, but there are only two with Spain by that island, Sicilian, Corsica. But also we have very little in Greece like are. It's very seldom the nonexistent to God awful but it being some decent other that I thought were outside groups and the Middle East and one or two per year with some of them are moving on over the water so there's not a threat for people or revolve how many islands that are so and affected and maybe things. And then I have this shrine of sur continent of Greece that those of the islands these and if and probably the problems in this area and the but the two on one or two. But again the intensity of this all of these yeah. Not was something was never seen so far and maybe that that causes Sean here in Virginia. So when we think about tropical cyclones here and the eastern part of North America, you know, we think about the classical hurricanes and how they can grow to such a large size, I imagine there they're going to be spatial constraints there in the Mediterranean. But are these exclusively will core tropical cyclones, are they hybrids? And the other question I have for you is a warm does the Mediterranean get during the warmest part of the summer? Yeah. These are this mitigates their warm core shaking but they are not be finished with the hybrid games they are not interested so much BBC surface temperature of surface temperature than and it could go up up to 28 degrees but 6 to 8 but this not the the main mechanism a miserable cover up at low cold air aloft warming here of course the bottom have a flow of moisture from the sea surface towards the cyclone of condensation. The release of Egypt will have a warm core, the yellow surface and so which they look like hurricanes, but the mechanism is not actually the same. The second one of the not the same size as diameter of the tentacle, where between one and 200 kilometers it's mean 1/10 of a big added problem besides a full develop. But for the size of the transmission, they that big enough. But as I said before, we're not we don't have so far mindset of the end and a concrete definition of a video game. And also all the mechanism related events have worked very well to not because we don't have or the tools we need to investigate them and figure down the public have added anyhow all their plans crossing eye damage to make their measurements, the least drop zones and have on this mission. Unfortunately, this does not exist but the Mediterranean. And so we rely on models, but also on satellite imagery which it. Yes. Oh yeah. Knows we're very lucky because you have the passage of from a US to Japan satellite the global precipitation mission Japan and have very very good snapshot 3D structure weather from the radar the ongoing satellite that will that are very very likely because you have a very good image from GPM satellite during the intense phase of of this maybe so you're really getting like you said, from satellites and you know, observational been on the ground here. And you know, you kind of point out how crucial our hurricane hunters are and our aircraft is within the United States to track these storms. They provide, you know, a wealth of data every time they go out there. It's not cheap, but it's worth it to help, really. You know, like, you know, guys, you were kind of looking to get a full picture of the storm. My question is, are there either government agencies or universities out there that are talking about getting some hurricane aircraft into these storms? Is that is that something is there a push for that over across the pond here in Europe, there is a great interest, but I don't think that we have an in mean we have some research airplanes in Europe. Okay. But it's a little bit difficult to because the phenomenon is a little bit yeah that's a problem they give us or on CO2 per year they want to get it can have a good chance of group had an enemy became atoll but this is a problem but I think we have we must do it because we can also use this type of measurement also for normal low pressure system, but also that are not very powerful from meteorological bombs, that are not very dense, but also they up very high, sustained winter. They can provoke problems in the but the the case we need data to better understand because any member of one of our work on the Pacific Oceans to provide for us the public and also to do the authorities get with the metservice. And I remember when we went to the last seven days and in the beginning was a cluster of thunderstorms on all the other on the coast of Africa and then we started the discussion according to the model, if these are going to be develop at big amid the or not, it's quite a limited similar with discussion of risk for job of a tropical depression coming from Africa. If this we began to gain out of the after to do best and the to be honest it was inside us but in working with the preventative the day and then when we show from the satellite image digital that made the cables from this spiral of the clouds spiraling around the center of the cloud area, the middle like is more chaotic. And then the second one, as I mentioned, which will be the path if this medication will affect Greece or not, which part? And it was then scheduled in the accused or this things because people were following forecast provided by Greek forecasters. See what we do copying the next one to this because started this municipalities were what we want in some case because something is there and it was present and like yeah of the world okay so like apocalypse issued with from Apocalypse Now the apocalypse were from for from there was up nothing is on my media but it was a based and the we have to put a plan that what will happen when they maybe ten and make landfall to the western part of Greece south of but it will stay over the sea so there's no problem. It was a difficult situation from the forecasting point of view. And yeah, we still see challenges here in the United States with forecasting and messaging impacts. And, you know, we see these all the time. So it's a shared concern all across the globe. It sounds like you're worried again, some more about Medicaid's here. We're going to take a quick break and we'll come back to you on the Across the Sky podcast. All right. And we are back here with the Across the Sky podcast. New episodes every Monday, wherever you get your podcasts or on your favorite newsroom's website, here we have Sean Sublette. I'm Joe Martucci, Matt Hollander. Here we are here with Costas Overdose from the National Observatory of Athens and Greece. We were talking about medications. Matt, I know you had a question to Leah, and also I'm going to kick it over to you, buddy. What do you got? Yeah, I want to know what you know kind of goes into the preparation for these storms. Obviously, they're not super frequent, but they do occur. So I kind of want to know what the attitude is for people who live along the Mediterranean and maybe how it's changed some now that we've had a significant one that hit in 2020. So kind of describe the the level of preparation and the attitude the folks along med during a had before and after that storm it comes to these medications. Yes well I, I think that the I.R.A. changed the mentality of people against the were speaking about natural disasters in general because it was something we was being it because for casualties some cases become more than for casualties for now for example see years ago from supercell thunderstorm said casualties but the as you understand and this is not only the number of casualties, but also the extent of the event was covered most recent, not so big in many, many places. So I think many people remember in loss and this big both again those and that as in as I would say as yeah a fed for the future that we discuss a little bit later on that but the risk and this kind of oh this weather is weather should be strong Nike air knows we be sampling of the future will be more frequent. This is not true but we will discuss a little later on them. But I talk because it was a long process. You have this formation of the last one of the class and the formation of the initial stage of the meditation, and there was a that many discussions to focus this to the public, what will happened. And there were some corporations I they think that we avoid the many problems, especially in the western part of the island, because it was a preparation for this, for this because it was a September mid September, which is for still a tourist excursion of many tourists about boards on sailing boards or vacation homes. And but they were avoided big problems and maybe a lot of casualties because we have a good preparation of this or this event. But for many people, this was admitted, Jane, and that is shameless with any pain. It gave it gave them the fear that something very bad and this fear made them more precautions and they took some precautions. Had we avoided many casualties, mainly due to this cell room, when you have a but something very bad will happen. And as we understand, because a lot of discussion that we it's something I would be game something like American pretends like we like in the Atlantic we try to expand that this is not something different. It's violent, but it's more and it's something that I've read that show that when we have some kind of event there and as you said with the wounded, Jeff admitted, what is it that goes into the focus? I want to ask about the name. So you had an ear nose here. How are the who is naming these storms? A We started in the observatory to give names to storms in 2017. And the mayor the name and that was given by okay, by myself and as the head of the group of well let me project that the lives of my daughter. So we fought to the same strategy, if we name it, many names alphabetically. So we gained to I. And so again, everything. Yeah, not with Latin down and I think it was a good name that after that this is a little they gossip but they will tell you that that we're here for that. Yes. When we started giving names, some colleagues from the National Metservice, they were not very they said that is not very common in Europe. But they are doing that. And. Yes, but but Europe. And we should know giving names for big storms is something that helps people to be more prepared to guess the problem. And but the one year ago they decided to follow this procedure and they started giving names by themselves. And that's one of its every is now giving names for storms in Greece. But we paved the way, I think, and we started we make this initiative give names stops. And I think it's it's proven that it's good not only for us because we remember the cases, because for the general public, we're giving names, providing them with an event people pay attention to this event. This sounds a lot like winter storm naming here in America. I don't know if you're familiar, Kostas, but the National Weather Service does not name winter storms. However, the Weather Channel does. So it's a little different. You that's where you. Yeah, it all talks about. So, you know, you're a university and it's the government. So it's a little different than a private in a public service here. But it's kind of amazing how quickly the the government took over the naming. I don't know if it happens that for ideas of naming in the beginning, because I have some colleagues that I think do the social media good Facebook. What why are doing it that it's not in America and the we tried to pressure them but this is something good and finally they understood that and they started naming this storm this as well. But we said, no, we're not have but what he meant because they make it go region but gave we stepped back and say okay go ahead you name the but the main idea that we have to use us flew with us on autumn storms I think the most correct got it Yeah I'm totally on board with that. So let me ask you this. As as the awareness of the systems has has risen a bit over the past few years, and we know that that the climate is warming. What do you kind of foresee or what does the science tell us about these storms taking shape in the Mediterranean in terms of their frequency or intensity potentially in the years or even decades to come? Before that, we have a look what's happened the last 30 years, and we see that we're coming frequency of not a month or two per year with no significant trend decreasing or increasing. This is because you have measurements. And then to compile the climate projections based on high resolution climate models. And we have some colleagues from other countries that make some publications and they show that over the next decade the frequency will not increase or decrease, but the the intensity will and we expect maybe the same number, not better, but a year of gains. But maybe we'd be deaths at high temperature if I say surface temperature and the we see. But that's why understand that these projections, it's something that they can work up because one will do. But more powerful and more powerful. This one and this one was category four both in were three. And this would be a problem because the major parts of this minute gaze out over the sea bass. But I spoke of many islands of the meter down in those of people living there, and especially people navigating more ships from one island to gather that these would be a problem. But the have bigger and smaller, stronger, more dense made the gains. But I believe that the using them modern technology, satellite and more sophisticated ones that would be able to provide much forecast for the path and the intensity of them into the future. And coast us. I think I think we'll leave off with this. I have one more question for you. Have you spoken with the National Hurricane Center here in America about this topic? Have you had or even just any conversation with them? Don't know that it may be too late. It's a mistake from my side, from our side to do that. In fact, you make last thing. I think that it's a fascinating topic and it's a great it's not good to say fascinating, but something that these people can make a lot of fun disaster. But from a broad scale point of view, something that you which is very affected and will ever things and they were happy as I said before we'll have new satellite will provide data that 20 years ago was unthinkable and so this is good for the future because I think that mainly with more towards small rural remote sensing data and and metrological models will be able to better understand the mechanism of the mitigation, therefore, but to mitigate what caused us. Thank you so much for joining us here on an evening for you. I know you're going to dinner you so enjoy dinner, but we appreciate the information about medications. And have you ever make it over to the United States? Give us a call. We'll do something in person. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks again for the kind every patient. Okay. We're very happy to oblige. And thank you very much. We're going to take one more break while some closing thoughts on the Across the Sky podcast. Thanks again to Kostas for coming on. It was fantastic to never want to walk around our schedule here a little bit. Now we have a seven hour time difference between the East Coast, the U.S. and Greece. But we thank him for his knowledge. And you know, I know it was a little funny at the end where he was like, I was the one who decided to name the storms. Yeah, he kind of that set off a trend where we're now the equivalent of the National Weather Service or the National Hurricane Center is issuing names for these storms. So a heavy hitter in the weather world, really, if you put it that way. What did you take away from this? Matt? Yeah, it would be cool if I could name a storm that that bad does so. And he said, that's like, Oh, actually I named. I was like, oh that's, that's pretty cool. I got, I got to give credit there. But you know, the other thing that stood out to me is that, you know, in the communication realm, like people do like the names of these hurricanes and then there's a debate on if we should be naming the winter storms or not either. But I think that might this is probably coming up in discussion because of the intensity. And that's what was interesting, because it kind of follows what we're seeing in the Atlantic, too. There's some uncertainty about the frequency. It doesn't seem like there's a steady trend and an increase in number of storms that we have had some active seasons and the elastic. But what the climate models are telling us is that what does seem to be like is an increase in the intensity. And that's why they had the first one ever make it to Category two strength before. And really that's what really matters, because if these things are weak, then it's not a big deal. But when they're tense, that's when the impacts go up. So if there's an increase in intensity, even if the frequency doesn't go up, that means there's the bigger potential for impact. So it's definitely going to be something that I think people are going to be keeping our closer eye on as we move ahead in the future. Yeah, I agree with that. Most of the most of it is is intensity more than frequency, right. If you think back to to the basic thermodynamics of it all, you know, you are going to have warmer water and so you are going to have more fuel for we're not just any tropical cyclone, but do you think Extratropical or these hybrid storms sometimes are called subtropical storms. They're still getting energy from warm water. So I do think there's something to be said for that. And they're going to put down heavier rain and you've got some pretty some pretty steep terrain there and the islands and right around it in the Mediterranean. So, you know, flooding, flash flooding, mudslides, those things are still going to have to be to be dealt with in the years and decades to come. Yeah, I think he said it was about, you know, every I think what do you say how in terms of frequency bout or a year is that what he said. Well, I think he said maybe a couple a year, but you know, two, three, four That's that's still not a lot. No. Like in the south, like here in the Atlantic basin we're typically looking at at least ten or 15 of something every year. Yeah, right. Exactly. And there's multiple countries is expanding to beyond Mediterranean. So it's not that often that one country is seeing, you know, just Medicaid come on through here. But, you know, thanks again to Kostas. We went international with this one and we'll try to bring some more people around the globe to you on the across the sky podcast. So coming up, the hits keep on coming here. So next week we have Adam Smith from NOAA's National Centers of Environmental Information to talk about weather disasters, billion dollar weather disasters to be exact. We have a big fish for the 29th episode. We have the director of the National Hurricane Center. We also have might that is from front page bats that's in collaboration with us at Lee Enterprises. Talk about sports betting and baseball as well. And then I am super, super, super excited for this one. Now, this one's not going to be able to third, but we have Jorge Jay from Major League eating the Nathan's hot dog eating contest, a personal hero of mine in some ways, the biggest hype man on planet Earth. We're going to have him come on to talk about the hot dog eating contest and the weather. So we really try to bring you everything weather related on the Across the Sky podcast. I think we might be the most diverse weather podcast out there in terms of guests, I don't know, Sean, and maybe you agree with me or not, if we're talking about Major League eating, yeah, we've reached a new level. That's what it's going to be an interesting one. We add some kind of level. There's some kind of level we've reached there, but I'm not exactly sure how I would describe that level. Right. We'll leave that. We'll leave that to you. The list we will leave that to the listeners to decide what level you have aspired to or sought to. When we talk about a hot dog eating contest, that that's right. And as we go into July where we believe here's the link. We'll be back with us to from paternity leave as we as we welcome her back. And she's doing very well with her two new baby as well. So I want to wrap up on that note and we will be back with you next Monday with Adam Smith. 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Diane M. Janosek is the NSA Training Director and Commandant of the National Cryptologic School. In this episode of Cybercrime Radio, she tells us about many NSA training and education initiatives, including GenCyber, STARTALK, the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity, and the National Cryptologic School. Diane also shares with us why WiCyS and mentorship are so important to her. This microcast is a short version of our full interview with Diane Janosek, which you can listen to at https://soundcloud.com/cybercrimemagazine/nsa-global-training-cyber-education-at-every-age-diane-m-janosek-nsa
Coastal ecosystems provide an essential part of the solution to global climate change, along with along with providing other benefits such as wildlife habitat and shoreline protection. Carbon that's stored in coastal and marine ecosystems, is called “blue carbon”. We're talking with leading scientists about their foundational research into how blue carbon is helping to address climate change. Hosts Sarah Thorne and Jeff King, National Lead of the Engineering With Nature® Program, are joined by Lisa Chambers, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Central Florida; Jenny Davis, Research Ecologist with the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), in the Beaufort Lab, Marine Spatial Ecology Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); and Jacob Berkowitz, a Research Soil Scientist and Lead of the Wetland Team with the Engineer Research Development Center (ERDC), US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). As Lisa explains, blue carbon refers to carbon stored in coastal marshes, mangroves, and seagrasses. The “blue” term differentiates it from carbon stored in other ecosystems such as terrestrial forests. Lisa notes that coastal ecosystems actually sequester significantly more carbon than most terrestrial forests. And importantly, they store it for long periods of time below the ground in the soils. Restoring these ecosystems and protecting these old stores of carbon is critical. Jenny explains: “When we take core samples down in those deep marsh sediments, in some cases, it's 2,000 to 3,000 years ago. It's important to think about how long it took to build that store of rich carbon and if you lose it, how long it's going to take to replace it. It's really important to preserve it.” There's increasing interest by the US Department of the Defense (DoD) and across US federal agencies in understanding carbon dynamics and identifying opportunities to increase the sequestration of carbon. As Jacob explains, he and Lisa were asked by the EWN Program to investigate blue carbon within the context of the Corps's ecosystem restoration and navigation programs, including beneficial use of dredge material to restore and create coastal habitats. “We've been looking at blue carbon within an applied research context to see where opportunities exist to maximize the storage of carbon within these coastal systems.” This research is important, because as Jeff notes, it links to EWN's objective of creating environmental and social benefits, in addition to the Corps' navigation-related mission objectives. “On average, USACE produces about 200 million cubic yards of dredge sediment every year. The idea that we could use this dredge sediment to out-compete sea level rise and replenish salt marsh systems while increasing the potential to sequester carbon is a very good thing. I'm really excited about this work.” “Whenever we can get USACE and NOAA collaborating on these kinds of topics, it really does accelerate our understanding of these complex systems and processes,” Jeff says. The goal is that this foundational research Jenny, Jacob, and Lisa are conducting will ultimately lead to actionable beneficial use of sediments guidance for practitioners in the field. Jeff adds, “Everybody's thinking about this, and we're seeing entities like Department of the Navy or Army including blue carbon or carbon sequestration in their climate-action strategies and plans.” For more information and resource links, please visit the EWN Podcast page on the EWN website at https://www.engineeringwithnature.org/ Related Links • Jeff King at LinkedIn • Lisa Chambers at UCF • Jenny Davis at NCCOS • Jacob Berkowitz at ResearchGate
Experiencing a natural disaster or other emergency events can be incredibly stressful. Even after the immediate danger has passed, the impact can still be felt by those who had to endure the event. Why is this relevant now? Well, the frequency and intensity of these events are increasing each year. For instance, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information from 2017-2021, there were 17.8 weather/climate disaster events that exceeded $1 billion per year compared to 12.8 per year in 2010-2019. Additionally, there have been at least 15 events with each loss exceeding $1 billion to affect the United States in 2022.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In 2022, the world experienced major climate-related disasters ranging from flooding and hurricanes to drought and extreme heatwaves. Moreover, 2022 was the sixth-warmest year on record, according to scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. NOAA just issued its annual report on climate trends in the U.S. for 2022, which includes a review of the major climate-driven weather events that each cost at least $1 billion. NOAA reported 18 separate billion-dollar weather events that collectively cost more than $165 billion — the third-highest tally since 1980 — and resulted in hundreds of deaths. To learn more about NOAA's findings and the high price of climate-related disasters, in this episode of the ESG Insider podcast we talk with scientists from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI. They are Karin Gleason, NCEI's chief of climate monitoring, and Adam Smith, an applied climatologist at NCEI. "Much of the world operates on a 20th-century infrastructure and economy, but now we're living in a 21st-century climate. And so the inefficiencies of those two realities are becoming more clear as we move into the future," Adam tells us. "We have our work cut out for us to better mitigate against future damages that we know will continue," he says. We'd love to hear from you. To give us feedback on this episode or share ideas for future episodes, please contact hosts Lindsey Hall (lindsey.hall@spglobal.com) and Esther Whieldon (esther.whieldon@spglobal.com). Photo source: Getty Images Copyright ©2023 by S&P Global DISCLAIMER By accessing this Podcast, I acknowledge that S&P GLOBAL makes no warranty, guarantee, or representation as to the accuracy or sufficiency of the information featured in this Podcast. The information, opinions, and recommendations presented in this Podcast are for general information only and any reliance on the information provided in this Podcast is done at your own risk. This Podcast should not be considered professional advice. Unless specifically stated otherwise, S&P GLOBAL does not endorse, approve, recommend, or certify any information, product, process, service, or organization presented or mentioned in this Podcast, and information from this Podcast should not be referenced in any way to imply such approval or endorsement. The third party materials or content of any third party site referenced in this Podcast do not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards or policies of S&P GLOBAL. S&P GLOBAL assumes no responsibility or liability for the accuracy or completeness of the content contained in third party materials or on third party sites referenced in this Podcast or the compliance with applicable laws of such materials and/or links referenced herein. Moreover, S&P GLOBAL makes no warranty that this Podcast, or the server that makes it available, is free of viruses, worms, or other elements or codes that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. S&P GLOBAL EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ANY INDIVIDUAL'S USE OF, REFERENCE TO, RELIANCE ON, OR INABILITY TO USE, THIS PODCAST OR THE INFORMATION PRESENTED IN THIS PODCAST.
New research shows Exxon Mobil understood the dire consequences of burning fossil fuels decades ago — with scary accuracy. Yet, the company continued to mislead the public about the effects of climate change. We’ll discuss the billions in damages attributed to more frequent extreme weather events. And, a dungeon masters’ revolt! Dungeons & Dragons players united to preserve the spirit of the game. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty. Here’s everything we talked about today: “Assessing ExxonMobil's global warming projections” from Science “Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters” from the National Centers for Environmental Information “The Dungeons & Dragons' OGL 1.1 Tightens Grip On Competition” from Gizmodo “‘People are leaving the game': Dungeons & Dragons fans revolt against new restrictions” from The Guardian “Amid widespread backlash, D&D maker scales back ‘open’ license changes” from Ars Technica Tweet from @ttjourneys “CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months” from Gizmodo Get smart on “Spare” from the Make Me Smart newsletter “Spare review: The weirdest book ever written by a royal” from BBC News “Thousands of Airline Passengers Affected by FAA System Outage” from The New York Times “Disney will soon require workers to be in-office four days a week” from Marketplace We can't do this show without you. Keep sending your comments and questions to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave a voice message at 508-U-B-SMART.
New research shows Exxon Mobil understood the dire consequences of burning fossil fuels decades ago — with scary accuracy. Yet, the company continued to mislead the public about the effects of climate change. We’ll discuss the billions in damages attributed to more frequent extreme weather events. And, a dungeon masters’ revolt! Dungeons & Dragons players united to preserve the spirit of the game. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full/Half Empty. Here’s everything we talked about today: “Assessing ExxonMobil's global warming projections” from Science “Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters” from the National Centers for Environmental Information “The Dungeons & Dragons' OGL 1.1 Tightens Grip On Competition” from Gizmodo “‘People are leaving the game': Dungeons & Dragons fans revolt against new restrictions” from The Guardian “Amid widespread backlash, D&D maker scales back ‘open’ license changes” from Ars Technica Tweet from @ttjourneys “CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months” from Gizmodo Get smart on “Spare” from the Make Me Smart newsletter “Spare review: The weirdest book ever written by a royal” from BBC News “Thousands of Airline Passengers Affected by FAA System Outage” from The New York Times “Disney will soon require workers to be in-office four days a week” from Marketplace We can't do this show without you. Keep sending your comments and questions to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave a voice message at 508-U-B-SMART.
This year La Niña returns for the third consecutive winter, driving warmer-than-average temperatures for the Southwest and along the Gulf Coast and eastern seaboard, according to NOAA's U.S. Winter Outlook released today by the Climate Prediction Center — a division of the National Weather Service. Starting in December 2022 through February 2023, NOAA predicts drier-than-average conditions across the South with wetter-than-average conditions for areas of the Ohio Valley, Great Lakes, northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest. “The hardworking forecasters at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center produce timely and accurate seasonal outlooks and short-term forecasts year-round,” said Michael Farrar, Ph.D., director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction. “NOAA's new supercomputers are enabling us to develop even better, more detailed forecast capabilities, which we'll be rolling out in the coming years.” NOAA forecasters, in collaboration with the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS), continue to monitor extreme, ongoing drought conditions that have persisted in the Western U.S. since late 2020, as well as parts of the central U.S. where historic low-water conditions are currently present. “Drought conditions are now present across approximately 59% of the country, but parts of the Western U.S and southern Great Plains will continue to be the hardest hit this winter,” said Jon Gottschalck, chief, Operational Prediction Branch, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. “With the La Niña climate pattern still in place, drought conditions may also expand to the Gulf Coast.” Temperature The greatest chance for warmer-than-average conditions are in western Alaska, and the Central Great Basin and Southwest extending through the Southern Plains. Warmer-than-average temperatures are also favored in the Southeastern U.S. and along the Atlantic coast. Below-normal temperatures are favored from the Pacific Northwest eastward to the western Great Lakes and the Alaska Panhandle. Precipitation Wetter-than-average conditions are most likely in western Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, northern Rockies, Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. The greatest chances for drier-than-average conditions are forecast in portions of California, the Southwest, the southern Rockies, southern Plains, Gulf Coast and much of the Southeast. The remainder of the U.S. falls into the category of equal chances for below-, near-, or above-average seasonal total precipitation. Drought Widespread extreme drought continues to persist across much of the West, the Great Basin, and the central-to-southern Great Plains. Drought is expected to impact the middle and lower Mississippi Valley this winter. Drought development is expected to occur across the South-central and Southeastern U.S., while drought conditions are expected to improve across the Northwestern U.S. over the coming months. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather/message
With better and more affordable remote-operated vehicle and video technology, more data and footage is being collected every day. But that leads to another problem, how do you analyze petabytes worth of data? Join us on this episode of Ocean Science Radio, where we meet one of the minds behind FathomNet, and some of the teams that are using this fantastic big data tool for the ocean. We speak with: Dr. Kakani Katija - FathomNet co-founder and lead of the Bioinspiration Lab for MBARI Megan Cromwell - Research Program Manager for NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Corinne Bassin - Data Solutions Architect with Schmidt Ocean Institute
NOAA's new supercomputers, first announced in February 2020 with a contract award to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), provide a significant upgrade to computing capacity, storage space and interconnect speed of the nation's Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System. This episode features bonus material for our Patreon supporters: https://www.patreon.com/posts/inside-noaas-ep-73830012 “Accurate weather and climate predictions are critical to informing public safety, supporting local economies, and addressing the threat of climate change,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo. “Through strategic and sustained investments, the U.S. is reclaiming a global top spot in high-performance computing to provide more accurate and timely climate forecasts to the public.” “More computing power will enable NOAA to provide the public with more detailed weather forecasts further in advance,” said NOAA Administrator, Rick Spinrad, Ph.D. “Today's supercomputer implementation is the culmination of years of hard work by incredible teams across NOAA — everyone should be proud of this accomplishment.” “This is a big day for NOAA and the state of weather forecasting,” said Ken Graham, director of NOAA's National Weather Service. “Researchers are developing new ensemble-based forecast models at record speed, and now we have the computing power needed to implement many of these substantial advancements to improve weather and climate prediction.” Enhanced computing and storage capacity will allow NOAA to deploy higher-resolution models to better capture small-scale features like severe thunderstorms, more realistic model physics to better capture the formation of clouds and precipitation, and a larger number of individual model simulations to better quantify model certainty. The end result is even better forecasts and warnings to support public safety and the national economy. The new supercomputers will enable an upgrade to the U.S. Global Forecast System, the "GFS," this fall and the launch of a new hurricane forecast model called the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System, the "HAFS," slated to be in operation for the 2023 hurricane season pending tests and evaluation. In addition, the new supercomputers will enable NOAA's Environmental Modeling Center — a division of the National Weather Service's National Centers for Environmental Prediction — to implement other new applications created by model developers across the U.S. under the Unified Forecast Systemoffsite link over the next five years. This week on the Carolina Weather Group, we chat with David Michaud, the director of central processing for the National Weather Service, and Brian Gross, the director of environmental modeling for NWS. LEAVE A TIP: https://streamelements.com/carolinawxgroup/tip SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/carolinaweathergroup VISIT OUR WEBSITE: https://carolinaweathergroup.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather/message
The last day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere was September 22nd, and cooler temperatures will surely be welcomed by many. Europe and China recorded their hottest-ever summers since recordkeeping began in 1880, according to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. Meanwhile, the US recorded its third-hottest summer by the same metric. Our recent report, “How to Choose, Use and Better Understand Climate Risk Analytics," researched and written in partnership with the Urban Land Institute (ULI), is an excellent overview of the challenges faced by first-time consumers of climate data. The paper outlines physical climate risk basics, identifies differences between data providers to be aware of, and raises a call to action to standardize the outputs in ways that are most meaningful and useful for real estate, with transparency that enables apples to apples comparisons across models. Once the data is in hand, the next step is to manage the risks at two levels: at the property level, through evaluating both existing and potential new hardening strategies to be more resilient against particular hazards; and at the portfolio level, through assessment of exposure concentrations and consideration of how climate risk informs overall portfolio construction strategies. And lastly, we must continue to monitor these risks on a regular basis, because one thing we know for sure is that our climate will continue to change, and more disruptive and damaging seasons like the hot summer of 2022 are likely to recur. Learn more at lasalle.com/research
The National Centers for Disease Control reports that 12 percent of evangelical women have had an abortion. How can we minister to these women in the Church? And how can we address the topic with grace and truth for the men and women who have been impacted by abortion? Chris Brooks encourages us to engage them and train others with grace and truth. Bible studies for post-abortive men and women:Surrendering the Secret Surrendering the Heart of a Father
In 1896 St. Louis was listed as the 5th largest city in the United States, trailing only New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and what was then the separate city of Brooklyn. More than half a million people lived there on the banks of the Mississippi River. The morning of May 27, 1896 dawned calm and steamy and belied what was coming that afternoon. One of the greatest natural disasters to strike one of the largest US cities was awaiting residents in the afternoon. In what remains the third most deadly tornado in U.S. history struck St. Louis, on the afternoon of May 27, 1896. According to the National Centers for Environmental Education; shortly before five o'clock that Wednesday afternoon, May 27, the devastating tornado struck the city from the southwest, near the Compton Heights district. From there, the tornado made its way down the Mill Creek Valley, destroying countless homes as it headed toward the Mississippi River. Once the tornado made it to the Mississippi, it decimated the steamboats and other vessels in the harbor, breaking them to pieces and scattering them from the Missouri shore to the Illinois shore. Even the Eads Bridge, which was considered “tornado proof” as the first major bridge constructed by making use of true steel, was damaged by the powerful tornado, with nearly 300 feet of its eastern approach torn away. Much of the central portion of St. Louis was also destroyed, as were factories, saloons, hospitals, mills, railroad yards, and churches throughout the city. Across St. Louis, the tornado completely destroyed block after block of residential housing. Hundreds of miles of electric wires and thousands of telephone and telegraph poles were torn down by the fierce winds. The tornado also uprooted trees more than half a century old and hurled them a distance of several blocks. Heavy iron fences, like the one that surrounded Lafayette Park, were twisted and tangled until they were nearly unrecognizable. During the less than half an hour that the tornado was on the ground, it tracked a three-mile-wide path of destruction across St. Louis, killing 255 people, injuring 1,000, and rendering countless families homeless. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week, Tony and Jodie spend time chatting with Michael J. Silah. Silah is a retired rear admiral in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps who served as Director, NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps, and Director, NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations. Follow the show on Twitter: @AAThingPodcast Follow the show on Instagram: @andanotherthingpodcast Follow Jodie Jenkins on Twitter: @jodie_a_jenkins Follow Tony Clement on Twitter: @TonyclementCPC Find the show on the web: www.andanotherthingpodcast.ca Check out some of our sponsors! Halton Government Relations -- opening the doors that will lead to your success. Municipal Solutions Lord & Lady Coffee This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm
In this episode, we present a podcast from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers called Engineering with Nature. Host Sarah Thorne and Todd Bridges, Senior Research Scientist for Environmental Science with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Lead of the Engineering With Nature® program, are joined by Steve Thur, Director of NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. Sarah, Todd, and Steve discuss how the practice of Engineering With Nature and the application of nature-based solutions are evolving and the importance of protecting critical coastal ecosystems. They also tell the story of the collaboration and partnership between the Army Corps of Engineers and NOAA. Episode permanent link, transcript, and show notes
Nature-based solutions – or NBS – are front and center in major policy changes in the US (Executive Order 14008: Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) that emphasize the urgent need to take action to build climate resiliency and significantly renew and upgrade the country's infrastructure. In this episode, host Sarah Thorne and Todd Bridges, Senior Research Scientist for Environmental Science with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Lead of the Engineering With Nature® Program, are joined by Steve Thur, Director of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NCCOS is the marine science entity of the National Ocean Service, and its role is to serve the science needs of NOAA, other federal and state government partners, and decision makers. We discuss how the practice of Engineering With Nature and the application of NBS are evolving, and the importance of protecting critical coastal ecosystems. We're also telling the story of a powerful collaboration and partnership between the USACE and the NOAA. Todd and Steve begin by talking about the challenges and opportunities in working jointly across the boundaries of organizations in a “whole-of-government” approach. Their collaboration started with a workshop in 2016 to discuss the shared interests and synergies between USACE and NOAA on using natural and nature-based features to improve coastal resilience and increase environmental value and social benefits. Six years later the collaboration is still paying dividends. Steve's initial interest in EWN was the opportunity to apply his personal passion – to wisely use marine resources to make society better – by using science to inform coastal management. His unusual academic background – degrees in biology and economics – come together in his focus on the wise use of marine resources. As he explains, “EWN solutions offer us the potential for win-win-win solutions – mitigating flood risks, restoring habitats, helping with fisheries, protecting threatened and endangered species, and providing many social benefits, such as recreation. When one application or project can touch on so many societal benefits, I see that as a huge win for efficiency and it's something we should be involved in.” Todd relates the challenges along the coasts, home to 40% of the American population, to a previous EWN Podcast episode (Season 3 Episode 9) where we discussed the need to rebalance California's inland water system. “Because of the development that's occurred along our coasts in the last 150 years, we also need to rebalance coastlines and find opportunities to harmonize engineering with natural systems to make our coasts more resilient. To create that kind of integration requires USACE and NOAA, with their respective mission sets, to find the complementarity needed to pursue these kinds of integrated solutions. NOAA-NCCOS is leaning into this with us and it's producing great outcomes.” The first two projects that the USACE and NOAA-NCCOS collaborated on were located at Mordecai Island, NJ and Swan Island, MD, a part of the Martin National Wildlife Refuge at Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. In both cases, dredged material was used to rebuild eroding islands, providing coastal protection and wildlife habitat, along with social benefits. Steve notes that the Swan Island Project demonstrates how a relatively small investment in science by NOAA can be used to effectively leverage larger investments by organizations like the USACE. He adds, “We're collecting this data, not only to monitor the performance of Swan Island, but hopefully to inform future similar projects done around the country. How can we demonstrate that this is effective from an engineering standpoint, from an ecological standpoint and from a social standpoint, and if it works here, what we can take and apply in different regions to ‘green up' additional practices to get these win-win-win solutions?” These projects have generated a lot of interest with policy and decision makers in Washington DC. As Steve describes, “We sponsored an ‘all interested' staff briefing on Capitol Hill several years ago that had 82 participants, at least 45 of those were congressional staffers who work directly for Committees responsible for drafting legislation, for oversight of Executive Branch Agencies, and the personal staff of individual members of Congress. Having 40 or more congressional staff at one time hearing a message about partnership, engineering, and nature is unheard of. It was a tremendous success, and we came out of it with numerous follow-up actions and a lot of inquiries from people interested in learning more about what we were doing.” Follow-up included an on-site visit to the Swan Island project area with Congressional staffers, members of Congress from the area, and staff from the Maryland Governor's office. For participants, the first-hand experience of the site visit was invaluable. Recent outreach to policy and decision makers included a briefing on the International NNBF Guidelines by Todd to the White House Coastal Resilience Interagency Working Group in September, 2021. In March 2022 Steve and Todd, along with Dr. Sherry Hunt of the US Department of Agriculture, provided testimony From Gray to Green: Advancing the Science of Nature-based Infrastructure to the House Science, Space, & Technology Committee. Steve highlighted three research gaps: the need to continue to assess performance of NBS; the need to quantify ecosystem services that NBS provide; and the need to understand the public's perceptions of NBS. Todd reflected on the Members' interest in how this translated to their districts: “I found it very motivating, having this opportunity to testify, and the really serious way our legislators are attending to this opportunity of nature-based solutions.” Steve added: “The Members shared some personal stories about their experiences being out in nature and looking at some of the benefits that we get from natural and nature-based features for their local communities. This really underscored for me that NBS are applicable across our great nation for both risk reduction and ecological service provision.” We close the episode by discussing what is next for broader collaboration between NOAA and the USACE on EWN. As Steve notes, NOAA is going to use their specialized skills and capabilities to evaluate the performance of NBS over time: “This year we're going to start a research program to look at multiple nature-based features that have already been constructed. We're going to assess them for their current status and compare those to the ‘as built' conditions from several years ago. We hope to be able to discern how they have performed and evolved over time. We're also looking to get baseline data on new projects.” Todd adds that the need to measure performance of NBS in coastal systems is very important: “Developing resilience along our coastlines is not a battle of a few years. It's a battle of decades. We really have to take a long view, and fortunately, in the case of NBS, there are natural analogs – 500,000 acres of mangroves around Florida, millions of acres of wetlands along our coastlines. There's so much known about these systems already. There's an opportunity to understand the performance of these systems.” EWN also has a policy research project underway now that will provide insights for evaluating and documenting the comprehensive benefits produced by NBS projects, including the engineering, economic, environmental, and social value of projects. The partnership between NOAA-NCCOS and USACE really demonstrates the power of bringing people and organizations with diverse experience together to deliver nature-based solutions to produce coastal resilience. Related Links EWN Website ERDC Website Todd Bridges at EWN Todd Bridges at LinkedIn Network of Engineering With Nature EWN Atlas Series International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management Executive Order No. 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act EWN Podcast S1E5: Collaborating to Create Wildlife Habitat While Restoring Islands and Improving Community Resilience EWN Podcast S3E2: Considering and Evaluating the Benefits of Natural Infrastructure Bridges Briefs White House Coastal Resilience Interagency Working Group on International NNBF Guidelines Steve Thur at LinkedIn Steve Thur at NCCOS The National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) S. House of Representatives Committee Hearing: Advancing the Science of Nature-Based Infrastructure From Gray to Green: Advancing the Science of Nature-Based Infrastructure. Hearing of the Subcommittee on Environment: US House Science, Space, & Technology Committee Sherry Hunt at LinkedIn
Saralyn Mark, MD, a world renowned leader in women's health, is an endocrinologist, geriatrician and women's health specialist. She was the first Senior Medical Advisor to the Office on Women's Health within the Department of Health and Human Services. She designed the first women's health fellowship in the US, helped create the National Centers of Leadership in Academic Medicine, the National Centers of Excellence in Women's Health, and landmark educational campaigns on critical health issues. She has published and delivered over 600 lectures and is a frequent health media expert. Dr. Mark works with agencies, academia, industry and NGOs around the globe. As President of SolaMed Solutions, LLC, Dr. Mark serves as a medical and scientific policy advisor to the White House, NASA and other organizations dedicated to improving health on Earth and in space. She holds 4 academic appointments including at Yale and Kings College-London. She is author of Stellar Medicine: A Journey Through the Universe of Women's Health.
Speaking of dubious holidays, it’s Do a Grouch a Favor Day which seems quite appropriate for these times. It’s also Innovation Day and National Almond Day, both of which I am skeptical are actual holidays. Who gets to decide? I hope you’ll decide that every installment of Charlottesville Community Engagement is worth spending time on a brief civic holiday. I’m your host, Sean Tubbs. On today’s program:While Charlottesville Parks and Rec still working to open one pool, they’re seeking to outsource operations of anotherA former Albemarle officials will help administer broadband expansion in her new position at the Thomas Jefferson Planning District The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce releases a report touting various collaborationsA committee recommends that Broadus Wood Elementary keep its name And a quick snapshot of the General Assembly with one month down, one month to go Patreon-fueled shout-out to LEAPWhen you think of romance, you might not immediately think of energy efficiency - but the folks at LEAP think keeping your family comfortable at home is a great way to show you care during the month of love. Your local energy nonprofit wants to make sure you are getting the most out of your home all year round, and LEAP offers FREE home weatherization to income- and age-qualifying residents. If someone in your household is age 60 or older, or you have an annual household income of less than $74,950, you may qualify for a free energy assessment and home energy improvements such as insulation and air sealing. Sign up today to lower your energy bills, increase comfort, and reduce energy waste at home!Climate report: January was sixth hottest on recordThis past January was the 6th hottest in 143 years of recorded climate history, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). January was also the 445th consecutive month with above-average temperatures. The data is collected by the National Centers for Environmental Information. (read the release)Snow cover in the northern hemisphere is about average as was tropical activity. However, the polar sea ice coverage was at the second-smallest in January in 44 years of record. Another study from NOAA reports that the United States coastline will see at least a foot rise in seal level by 2050. That amount would usually take a century, but the new Sea Level Rise Technical Report uses the latest data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The report said the increased water level will mean heavier flooding inland and states that reduction in greenhouse gas emissions could slow the rise. General Assembly: One Day After Crossover Someone who happened to take a look this morning at the statistics for the 2022 Virginia General Assembly would have seen signs of Crossover Day, the day when hundreds of bills fail because they were not approved by the House in which they originated. As of 8:25 this morning, 959 out of 2,543 introduced bills have now failed. That number is up sharply from the 351 on Monday morning. The figure will likely shoot up higher now that the Republican controlled House of Delegates will consider bills that passed the Democrat controlled Virginia Senate, and vice versa. There are 597 House bills pending in the Senate, and 489 Senate bills waiting for action in House committees. The House has passed one Senate bill. That’s SB739 which would allow parents permission to have their children not wear masks to stop the spread of COVID-19 while on school property. Governor Youngkin is expected to sign that legislation later this afternoon but amended it to state that this new parental power school won’t go into effect until March 1 for those school systems that want to continue the mandate.Today the Virginia Department of Health reports another 3,030 new cases today and the percent positivity is up slightly to 11.4 percent.Chamber of Commerce releases collaboration reportThe second anniversary of the pandemic is approaching and almost every organization across Virginia have been transformed in some way. The Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce has released a report highlighting some of the partnerships it has undertaken during the challenging times. These include Venture Central, a project to help encourage regional entrepreneurship fueled by a $300,000 grant from GO Virginia. Other parties include Albemarle, Charlottesville, and the University of Virginia. There’s also the Leadership Charlottesville program, where people from different positions come together for a series of lessons and training about the community. The program was not held in 2021 due to the pandemic but will relaunch this September with support from the Weldon Cooper Center at the University of Virginia and the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. A sneak peak is being held on March 9 where you can learn more about the application process. Another Chamber initiative is the Charlottesville Area Development Roundtable (CADRE) which works to influence land use policy. Last year their work was focused on the Charlottesville Comprehensive Plan, which was adopted by Council in November. This year that group will work on the zoning rewrite that is now underway. Other Chamber programs include the Minority Business Alliance, the Hospitality Professionals Roundtable, and the Defense Affairs Committee. On Friday, the Chamber will present their first ever State of the Community at the CODE Building. Registration has been closed. Parks update: No date yet for Smith Aquatic reopening Charlottesville’s Smith Aquatic and Fitness Center has been closed for nearly two years, but not all of that is related to the pandemic. When everything shut down in March of 2020, the facility had been expected to be closed for at least $1.8 million in repairs to try to finally fix lingering air quality issues. Smith had been expected to open back up last year, but the work wasn’t complete. The goal is for it to open this spring. Vic Garber is the deputy director of the Charlottesville Parks and Recreation Department. “We are still working diligently with facilities maintenance to make sure that all of the boxes are checked and to make sure that once we open that darned thing it is going to be safe, it is going to be a good experience, and I would like to say a magical experience,” Garber said. Work is also underway to make sure the pool can be staffed. Garber said several new lifeguards have been hired this month. He said there was no date yet for when Smith will open.Last summer, the outdoor pool at Meade Park was closed due to staffing issues. This Monday, the city issued a request for proposals for companies to take over the operations of the pool. “We’re striving to get more staff,” Garber said. “We need more than just a handful of lifeguards to get Onesty open. We need 60 to do that safely and effectively.” If the city proceeds to go in that direction, the vendor would be responsible for hiring that staff and for maintaining the pool. “There are five or six really well-acclaimed vendors in the nation that do that,” Garber said. “They go in. They actually do it in Fredericksburg. They do it in Asheville, North Carolina.”This would just be for Onesty Pool, which Garber said is the busiest facility in the city’s pool system. “Because of all of the whistles and bells that we have and blind spots, we need more guards there than any place,” Garber said. Proposals are due on March 15. There are renovations underway at Onesty to repaint all of the water features and to update the 13-year-old facility. There’s been a sharp uptick in usage of the city’s parks in the past two years. Riaan Anthony is also a deputy director of parks and recreation. “I am looking at creative ways in terms of how do we meet the demand because trends have dramatically shown us that once the pandemic started, people started using the parks more and more and more,” Anthony said. “And the trend has just continued.”That means more wear and tear on the parks, and Anthony said there’s a need to keep standards up. He’s considering outsourcing several services such as horticulture and landscaping because there is a struggle to fill existing positions. If you’re interested in a new job or know someone, take a look at the city’s jobs board. Anthony also said that the city needs to replace several playgrounds as they are over 20 years old. “According to the [Certified Playground Safety Inspector] standards, 20 is your cut off,” Anthony said. “You need to replace it. That’s like the last end limit and we have a few.” First up will be Meade Park and Belmont Park. Anthony said public input sessions will be held to get feedback from community members. A nonprofit group is fundraising to build a playground in Pen Park, as we learn from parks planner Chris Gensic about Bennett’s Village.“Bennett’s Village, which is a nonprofit group that’s proposing to fundraise and construct and effectively donate to the city an all-inclusive, all ages playground,” Gensic said. Gensic said there will be a public input process for that as well on March 15. There will be a public input meeting for Tonsler Park on March 22. Gensic is a member of the stakeholder group planning for a pedestrian and bike bridge over the Rivanna River to connect Pantops and Woolen Mills. The deadline is approaching for an application for Smart Scale funding from the Virginia Department of Transportation and there are two potential sites for where the western end of the bridge will land. “And we’re discussing pros and cons and getting public input from a variety of people about if it landed at Riverview Park what would be the pros and cons of that that?” Gensic said. “If it landed at Market Street down by the Woolen Mill, what would be the pros and cons of that?”To learn more about the options, visit the Thomas Jefferson Planning District’s website. You’ll find a survey there. The Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization will hold a special meeting on March 10 at 1 p.m. to review the options and make a selection. Shoutout to UVA Lifetime LearningIn this subscriber supported shout-out honoring Black History Month, fifty years after the Civil War and Emancipation, there was still a great need to educate Black people in the rural areas in the south, including Albemarle County. From 1912 to 1932, Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald built more than 5,300 schools, including the St. John Rosenwald in Cobham, northeast of Charlottesville. This school educated Black children until 1954, and fell into disrepair but still survives. Efforts to restore the school as a community center are bearing fruit, and on Thursday, February 17, UVA Lifetime Learning will feature two speakers who will help tell that story and the importance of honoring the past while preparing for the future. Join St. John alumna Rebecca Kinney and preservationist Jody Lahendro at 3 p.m. Visit engage.virginia.edu to sign up for this virtual event! Broadus Wood Elementary School may retain nameA committee that is evaluating whether the name of Broadus Wood Elementary School should be changed is recommending that it remain. In October 2018, the Albemarle School Board directed Superintendent Matt Haas to review all the names in the division to see if they still are consistent with school values. Broadus Ira Wood was a farmer who donated the land for the Earlysville area school in 1905 and the committee felt “he advanced education opportunities for African American and rural students.” The Albemarle School Board will consider their recommendation later this month. Paul H. Cale Elementary School became Mountain View Elementary School on July 1, 2020. Sutherland Middle School was renamed Lakeside Middle School a year later, but Virginia L. Murray Elementary retained its namesake in 2021. The Community Public Charter School is now the Community Lab School. Jack Jouett Middle School will become Journey Middle School on July 1.Former Albemarle finance official now working for regional bodyThe Thomas Jefferson Planning District is one of 21 such entities in the Commonwealth of Virginia and is charged with assisting “local member governments, partners, and stakeholders with a variety of technical and program services.” Active projects include the aforementioned Rivanna River bridge as well as the Urban Rivanna Corridor Plan. Last year, the agency adopted a regional housing plan that offered tailored recommendations for each of the six jurisdictions. The TJPDC is also the lead agency for the Regional Internet Service Expansion project, a $288 million public-private partnership to expand broadband involving several counties, the Rappahannock and Central Virginia Electric Cooperatives, and Dominion power. The project will be administered by Lori Allshouse, who spent many years as a top management and budget official in Albemarle County. “Lori is a seasoned and dedicated public administrator who has a track record of building and maintaining partnerships and years of experience working with local, state and federal funded programs, projects, and initiatives,” said Christine Jacobs, the executive director of the TJPDC. Allhouse said she’s glad to be on board.“I just want to say throughout my career in Albemarle County I have always been super impressed by the commission, with its staff and the leadership and all its done for its member jurisdictions in the regional community where we all live,” Allshouse said. Learn more about the RISE project in this article by Allison Wrabel in the Daily Progress.The work is consistent with the TJPDC’s vision.“The vision is to be the intersection of ideas, partnerships, and support, creating a cohesive regional community,” Jacobs said. “The comparative advantage of the TJPDC is that we can help bring together different jurisdictions in order to coordinate across jurisdictional lines.” Other organizations got their start under the TJPDC umbrella. These include Jaunt, the Piedmont Housing Alliance, the Central Virginia Partnership for Economic Development, the Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless, and the Jefferson Area Board for Aging. Support the program!Special announcement of a continuing promo with Ting! Are you interested in fast internet? Visit this site and enter your address to see if you can get service through Ting. 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Guest: Dr. Michael FarrarIntroduction: A man of many meteorological backgrounds, our next guest is taking on a new journey as he steps into the role as the new director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, commonly referred to as “NCEP.” In today's episode we will be joined by Dr. Michael Farrar where we will discuss his expectations for the future of NCEP as well as his past endeavors that have led up to this point…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Clear Skies Ahead: Conversations about Careers in Meteorology and Beyond
We talk to Doug Kluck, Climate Services Director for the Central Region at NOAA's National Centers For Environmental Information in Kansas City, Missouri, about how to inform local and regional decision making, how severe flooding led to a webinar series on climate risks, and trust-building with tribal communities.Episode transcriptHosted by Rex Horner and Kelly SavoieProduced by Brandon M. CroseEdited by Peter TrepkeTheme music composed and performed by Steve SavoieVisit AMS Career Resources on the web!Contact us at skypodcast@ametsoc.org with any feedback or if you'd like to become a future guest.Copyright © 2022 American Meteorological Society
In February 2021, a severe cold weather event, known as Winter Storm Uri, caused numerous power outages, derates, or failures to start at electric generating plants scattered across Texas and the south-central U.S. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which manages the power supply for about 90% of the load in Texas, ordered a total of 20,000 MW of rolling blackouts in an effort to prevent grid collapse. According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), this was “the largest manually controlled load shedding event in U.S. history.” More than 4.5 million people in Texas lost power—some for as long as four days. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information reported that the event resulted in 226 deaths nationwide and cost an estimated $24 billion. There has been a lot of finger pointing surrounding the blackouts that occurred. Several studies have been done into the causes, including one spearheaded by FERC, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), and NERC's regional entities. The key finding from the FERC/NERC report was that a critical need exists “for stronger mandatory electric reliability standards, particularly with respect to generator cold weather-critical components and systems.” The study found that a combination of freezing issues (44.2%) and fuel issues (31.4%) caused 75.6% of the unplanned generating unit outages, derates, and failures to start. But Bernard McNamee, a former FERC commissioner, and current partner with the law firm McGuireWoods and a senior advisor at McGuireWoods Consulting, suggested the study missed the real cause of the problem. Speaking as a guest on The POWER Podcast, McNamee said, “I think the reality is, is that there was a market design problem in Texas, and that was that, as you had more subsidized resources driving down the overall cost of power, you're not providing enough financial incentive for other dispatchable resources to harden their systems—winterize their systems—to be available when the wind wasn't blowing or the sun wasn't shining.” McNamee didn't blame power generators for being ill-prepared. He suggested they simply made decisions based on cost-benefit analysis. “Why would you [spend money on weatherization] if you're a natural gas company or generator and you think you're going to make most of your money, you know, five to 10 days in the summer? You're not expecting to operate in the winter and make money, [so] why would you spend the capital that you're not going to be able to recover?” McNamee asked. “I think that the market design is something that has not been talked about enough [and] was one of the leading causes of what happened,” McNamee said. “I think what happened in the winter storm in Texas, and what happened in August of 2020 in California, were really warning signs for the rest of the country about how we really need to pay attention to market design, and maybe costs that aren't being priced into the market but that are necessary for reliability.” However, McNamee also doesn't blame the growth of renewable resources for the problem. “It doesn't mean that wind and solar are bad. They provide some great benefits,” he said. “It's not that one resource is good or bad. It's thinking about how does the system all work together, so it's there when you need it 24/7. And it can't be, ‘Well, on average, the power will be available.' It's got to be available every moment.”
In 2021, the world saw many major climate-related disasters ranging from wildfires, to flooding and hurricanes. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, recently released its annual climate trends report, providing an important snapshot of the physical risks from climate change in the U.S. The report also puts a price tag on those risks: U.S. weather and climate-related disasters reached $145 billion in 2021. In this episode of ESG Insider, Climatologist Karin Gleason of NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information explains how climate change is amplifying extreme weather events by making them happen more often, last longer, and cause more damage. And Karin's colleague, Climatologist Adam Smith, says 2021 further proves that the world must both adapt to the physical risks of climate change and mitigate future impacts by curbing greenhouse gas emissions. As for physical risks, "it's a socioeconomic question about how can we make ourselves more resilient collectively, whether it's the individual level, homeowner level, a town, even at the state and the federal levels." We'd love to hear from you! To give us feedback on this episode or share ideas for future episodes, please contact hosts Lindsey Hall (lindsey.white@spglobal.com) and Esther Whieldon (esther.whieldon@spglobal.com). Photo credit: Getty Images
Tonight's Guest WeatherBrain is the current President of the AMS and is the new director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). Dr. Mike Farrar, welcome to WeatherBrains!
The National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) confirms that 2020 was one of the most extreme years for global environmental events such as storms, flooding, droughts, and more. This is attributed to the rise of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere contributing to increased global temperatures. With climate emergency being widely accepted as one of our next obstacles to overcome, businesses are assessing their carbon footprint and how they can reduce and reverse one of humanity's largest looming problems. In this podcast, Paul K. Boyce, PE, PG, discusses atmospheric warmings impact for local companies with PWGC colleagues Marie Mendes, IE, Director, Seattle Office and Doreen Carlson, Senior Project Manager. #carbonfootprint #carbonneutral #carbonoffsetting To watch a video version of this podcast, ask a question, suggest a topic or to be a guest on the show visit us at https://pwgrosser.com/podcast If you or your organization is in need of our services please contact us at https://pwgrosser.com/contact/ or call 631-589-6353. Follow us Facebook: https://bit.ly/2Qceu3u Twitter: https://bit.ly/3wIri2x Instagram: https://bit.ly/3d4cZxv LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3s9dzya See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Paul and Bill discussed computer education and cyber-security with Matthew Cloud, professor of the practice in the computer science program at Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, IN. Cloud has extensive experience in education, not only through classroom teaching at schools including Indiana's Ivy Tech network of community colleges, but also through project management, curriculum development, and strategic collaborations with other a range of colleges and universities. Cloud holds a bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University and a master's degree in biomedical engineering granted jointly by the University of Texas and the UT Southwestern Medical Center. He is working within the Holy Cross College science department to grow a distinctive undergraduate program in computer science. Through a different understanding of essential skills and characteristics, such a program could increase access to meaningful information technology careers among students with more diverse backgrounds of knowledge, training, interests, socio-economic resources, etc. Increasing the access to such positions offers advantages to the students, to companies with growing IT and cybersecurity needs, and to the safety and sustainability of societies. You can go to cyberseek.org and get the latest estimates of how many US cybersecurity jobs are currently open, waiting for applicants. Prof. Cloud says that number has been hovering around 500,000. One of the multi-school projects he is helping to lead is funded by a grant from the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity. His focus on a win-win balance between the demand for tomorrow's computing/AI/cybersecurity/data science professionals and the supply of motivated, well-trained students pursuing these fields takes the form of several partnerships funded by prestigious grants. The goal of attracting more US students, of all backgrounds, into computer-related studies, whether they be focused on engineering or on different fields of study (including the liberal arts, philosophy, and more), is being pursued by many institutions. You can visit http://code.org to see one approach for encouraging young people to consider a computer-related career.
We welcome YOU back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! In this episode, President Series #104, YOUR guest is Dr. Thomas Bailey, President at Teachers College, Columbia University, YOUR host is Dr. Joe Sallustio, & YOUR sponsor is MDT Marketing! Joe spoke with Dr. Bailey at the end of August, as Teachers College (TC) prepared to welcome students back to campus for the first time since March 2020. As president of the nation's first and largest graduate school of education, Dr. Bailey shares valuable perspectives on a range of topics, including: the challenges and opportunities of leading during the pandemic; how his prior experience leading TC's Community College Research Center has informed his leadership of TC; creating pathways to academic and career success for all students; the teaching profession; the role of education technology in the future of learning, and more. A must-listen! Dr. Thomas R. Bailey is the 11th President of Teachers College, Columbia University and the George & Abby O'Neill Professor of Economics & Education. A 30-year faculty member, he is the founding director of the TC's Community College Research Center and Director of the Institute on Education and the Economy. Dr. Bailey also has directed three National Centers funded by the Institute of Education Sciences: The Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment and Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness. From 2006 to 2012, Dr. Bailey directed the IES-funded National Center for Postsecondary Research. Dr. Bailey received his undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in labor economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Another awesome episode with YOUR sponsor MDT Marketing! Get YOUR free marketing consultation today! mdtmarketing.com/edup Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - Elvin Freytes & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● If YOU want to get involved, leave us YOUR EdUp review on YOUR preferred listening platform or at The EdUp Experience! ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! ● YOU can follow us on Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube Thank YOU for listening! We make education YOUR business!
July 2021 has become the hottest month ever recorded, according to new global data released on Friday by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information. This comes on the heels of a report by the Inter Government Panel on Climate Change that added incontrovertible evidence that human activity such as burning fossil fuels has exacerbated adverse climate change. And in our tech conversation today, we talk to the founders of LocoNav
jQuery(document).ready(function(){ cab.clickify(); }); Original Podcast with clickable words https://tinyurl.com/yz8lov9j The worst outbreak in China in recent months. An ráig is measa sa tSín le míonna anuas. Hundreds of thousands of people in China are now under severe lockout, due to the worst Covid 19 outbreak in that country in recent months. Tá na céadta míle duine sa tSín faoi dhianghlasáil anois, de bharr na ráige is measa Covid 19 sa tír sin le míonna anuas. Authorities are testing millions of people following an outbreak at an airport in Nanjing city two weeks ago. Tá na húdaráis ag déanamh tástálacha ar na milliúin duine i ndiaidh ráige in aerfort i gcathair Nanjing coicís ó shin. The contact tracking of new cases showed that the disease had spread from that outbreak to five other provinces and as far as the Chinese capital, Beijing. Léirigh an rianú teagmhálaithe a rinneadh ar chásanna nua gur scaip an galar amach ón ráig sin go dtí cúig chúige eile agus chomh fada le príomhchathair na Síne, Béising. An estimated 206 new cases are associated with that outbreak, and geographically, this is the most widespread outbreak in months. Tá baint, meastar, ag 206 cás nua leis an ráig sin, agus ó thaobh na tíreolaíochta de, tá an ráig seo ar an ráig is forleithne le míonna. China 's Covid 19 policy is to keep the number of cases as close to zero as possible. Is é polasaí na Síne ó thaobh Covid 19 de ná líon na gcásanna a choimeád chomh cóngarach do náid agus is féidir. So, whenever there is an outbreak, intensive locking is widely applied and contact testing and tracking is done in bulk. Mar sin, aon uair a bhíonn ráig, cuirtear dianghlasáil i bhfeidhm go forleathan agus déantar tástálacha agus rianú teagmhálaithe ar an mórchóir. The Delta variant spreads more rapidly than severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Ebola and smallpox and as rapidly as prickly heat, according to a report by the National Centers for Disease Prevention in the United States. Scaipeann an t-athraitheach Deilte níos gasta ná géarshiondróm trom riospráide (SARS), Ebola agus bolgach agus chomh gasta céanna le deilgneach, dar le tuarascáil de chuid an Lárionaid Náisiúnta um Ghalair a Chosc sna Stáit Aontaithe. The recent rise in outbreaks worldwide, particularly in the Pacific and Asian regions, is due to the delta shift. Is é an t-athraitheach deilte is cúis leis an ardú tobann atá tagtha ar ráigeanna ar fud an domhain le gairid, go háirithe i réigiúin an Aigéin Chiúin agus na hÁise.
IT success stories at SBA during the pandemic Sanjay Gupta, chief technology officer at the Small Business Administration, looks back at how his organization implemented the Paycheck Protection Program during the pandemic Analyzing data from NOAA climate reports Deke Arndt, director of the Center for Weather & Climate at the National Centers for Environmental Information at NOAA, discusses the exponential growth in climate data volume and his organization's process for analysis Reviewing the White House supply chain plan Christopher Yukins, professor at George Washington University Law School, discusses the recently developed plan for supply chain resiliency and the mechanisms in place to implement it
CoCoRaHS is an acronym for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. CoCoRaHS is a unique, non-profit, community-based network of volunteers of all ages and backgrounds working together to measure and map precipitation (rain, hail and snow), with the unique ability to capture fine-scale variability in local precipitation. CoCoRaHs is currently in all fifty states and currently expanding internationally as well. In this episode we are speaking with CoCoRaHs founder Nolan Doesken, National Coordinator Henry Reges, and Education Coordinator Noah Newman about the network's origins, current operations, how to get involved, and who uses the data collected.CoCoRaHs Network: https://www.cocorahs.org/National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Climate Normals WxTalk Webinars (Weather Talk Webinars)If you're enjoying this podcast, please consider rating us and/or leaving us a review on Apple Podcasts, Podcast Addict, or Podchaser Thanks!Follow us on Twitter @RainShinePodNever miss an episode! Sign up to get an email alert whenever a new episode publishes (http://eepurl.com/hRuJ5H)Have a suggestion for a future episode? Please tell us! Affiliate links:DOI Southwest CASC: https://www.swcasc.arizona.edu/USDA Southwest Climate Hub: https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/hubs/southwestSustainable Southwest Beef Project: https://southwestbeef.org/
In 1896 St. Louis was listed as the 5th largest city in the United States, trailing only New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and what was then the separate city of Brooklyn. More than half a million people lived there on the banks of the Mississippi River. The morning of May 27, 1896 dawned calm and steamy and belied what was coming that afternoon. One of the greatest natural disasters to strike one of the largest US cities was awaiting residents in the afternoon. In what remains the third most deadly tornado in U.S. history struck St. Louis, on the afternoon of May 27, 1896. According to the National Centers for Environmental Education; shortly before five o’clock that Wednesday afternoon, May 27, the devastating tornado struck the city from the southwest, near the Compton Heights district. From there, the tornado made its way down the Mill Creek Valley, destroying countless homes as it headed toward the Mississippi River. Once the tornado made it to the Mississippi, it decimated the steamboats and other vessels in the harbor, breaking them to pieces and scattering them from the Missouri shore to the Illinois shore. Even the Eads Bridge, which was considered “tornado proof” as the first major bridge constructed by making use of true steel, was damaged by the powerful tornado, with nearly 300 feet of its eastern approach torn away. Much of the central portion of St. Louis was also destroyed, as were factories, saloons, hospitals, mills, railroad yards, and churches throughout the city. Across St. Louis, the tornado completely destroyed block after block of residential housing. Hundreds of miles of electric wires and thousands of telephone and telegraph poles were torn down by the fierce winds. The tornado also uprooted trees more than half a century old and hurled them a distance of several blocks. Heavy iron fences, like the one that surrounded Lafayette Park, were twisted and tangled until they were nearly unrecognizable. During the less than half an hour that the tornado was on the ground, it tracked a three-mile-wide path of destruction across St. Louis, killing 255 people, injuring 1,000, and rendering countless families homeless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Diane M Janosek is the NSA Training Director and Commandant of the National Cryptologic School. In this episode of Cybercrime Radio, she tells us about many NSA training and education initiatives, including GenCyber, STARTALK, the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity, and the National Cryptologic School. Diane also shares with us why WiCyS and mentorship are so important to her. To learn more about the NSA and the National Cryptologic School visit https://nsa.gov • For more on cybersecurity, visit us at https://cybersecurityventures.com/
The thing about science is that it's true whether you believe it or not. Like, I could peer over the rocks of the Grand Canyon and proclaim that gravity is fake news, but if I lose my balance and fall into the wide-open mouth of that North Rim, I'm gonna die. Climate change is real, even if some people don't want to admit it. And we all have it within our power to make a difference by reducing our family's carbon footprint. When we talk about becoming more “eco-friendly” or “going green,” what we're talking about is shrinking our carbon footprint. Your carbon footprint, according to The Nature Conservancy, is “the total amount of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by [your] actions.” Everything you do either directly or indirectly that creates waste or pollutes the environment contributes to your carbon footprint. It's virtually impossible to bring your footprint to zero, but that shouldn't stop you from taking steps to make your impact on the environment smaller. The Work We Already Do “After registering unusually high temperatures across the globe, May 2020 tied with 2016 as the world's warmest May on record,” according to scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. “The heat wasn't just limited to May. The three-month season (March through May) and the year to date (January through May) ranked second-warmest in the 141-year global record.” Most of us know we need to make changes, and many of us have already begun making over our routines to be more eco friendly. Maybe you've ditched bottled water in favor of a reusable tumbler, or you bring reusable bags to the store instead of putting your groceries into plastic ones. Better yet, you might have said “sayonara” to plastic straws – I mean, why not when there are so many fun reusable straws you can use? And I bet you recycle if it's available in your area. That one's a no-brainer! The great thing about all these swaps is that they're pretty painless. It's not much of a burden to carry some shopping bags with you, is it? But many of us get stuck when we try to go a step further beyond those popular changes. So here are 7 more ideas to reduce your carbon footprint without losing your mind. They're easy, inexpensive, and you'll feel good knowing you're doing your part to save the planet. Listen in for 7 SUPER EASY ways to up your eco-friendly game. Follow: @katiegrayofficial (https://www.intagram.com/katiegrayofficial) Show Notes & More: https://wp.me/pchJpD-ki --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startgrowpivot/support
Click to listen to episode (4:11) Sections below are the following:Transcript of AudioAudio Notes and AcknowledgmentsImagesExtra InformationSourcesRelated Water Radio EpisodesFor Virginia Teachers (Relevant SOLs, etc.) Unless otherwise noted, all Web addresses mentioned were functional as of 1-8-21. TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is Virginia Water Radio for the week of January 11, 2021. SOUND - ~6 sec This week, rain and thunder open an episode about the recurrence in 2020 of a record-breaking rainy year in parts of Virginia. We set the stage with some music using rain imagery and metaphors. Have a listen for about 30 seconds. MUSIC - ~30 sec – Lyrics: “Buy for me the rain, my darlin’, buy for me the rain. Buy for me the crystal pools that fall upon the plain. And I’ll buy for you a rainbow and a million pots of gold. Buy it for me now, babe, before I am too old.” You’ve been listening to part of “Buy For Me The Rain,” performed by the Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand Band. For much of 2020 throughout Virginia, there was no need to “buy” any rain, because it fell in amounts well above normal. 2020 was the second year in the past three that annual total precipitation—that is, rainfall plus the water equivalent of frozen precipitation—far exceeded normal values across Virginia. The current normal values are based on observations from 1981 to 2010. This past year was a rapid follow-up to the extraordinarily wet year of 2018, when five National Weather Service observation locations in Virginia set all-time annual precipitation records. 2020 didn’t quite equal that soaker year, but still in the past 12 months, two Weather Service locations—Lynchburg and Roanoke—set records, as they both also did in 2018. At 12 Weather Service locations across the Commonwealth, 2020 amounts were at least about 8 inches above the normal values, which range across the state from around 40 inches in southwest Virginia to over 46 inches in Norfolk. The Lynchburg site in 2020 was more than 28 inches above its normal, and the Roanoke site was more than 21 inches above. When it comes to what Virginia gained this past year in rainfall, and the resulting additions to surface water and groundwater supplies, the Commonwealth definitely got its money’s worth. Thanks to Andrew VanNorstrand for permission to use part of his band’s version of “Buy For Me The Rain.” We close with some more music, with a title that’s just right for Virginia’s rapid repeat of a rainy year. Here’s about 15 seconds of “Rain Refrain,” by Torrin Hallett, a graduate student at Lamont School of Music in Denver. MUSIC - ~17 sec – instrumental SHIP’S BELL Virginia Water Radio is produced by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, part of Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment. For more Virginia water sounds, music, or information, visit us online at virginiawaterradio.org, or call the Water Center at (540) 231-5624. Thanks to Ben Cosgrove for his version of “Shenandoah” to open and close the show. In Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo, thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water. AUDIO NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The rain and thunder sounds were recorded by Virginia Water Radio in Blacksburg, Va., on September 28, 2016. The version of “Buy For Me The Rain” from the 2012 album “Andrew and Noah Band” on Great Bear Records is copyright by Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand, used with permission of Andrew VanNorstrand. The song was written by Steve Noonan and Greg Copeland (Warner-Tamerlane, BMI); more information about releases of this song is available online at https://secondhandsongs.com/work/119556/all. More information about Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand is available online at https://andrewandnoah.bandcamp.com/. This music was used previously by Virginia Water Radio in Episode 532, 7-6-20. “Rain Refrain” is copyright 2016 by Torrin Hallett, used with permission. Click here if you’d like to hear the full piece (43 seconds). Torrin is a 2018 graduate of Oberlin College and Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio, and a 2020 graduate in Horn Performance from Manhattan School of Music in New York. As of 2020-21, he is a performance certificate candidate at the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver. More information about Torrin is available online at https://www.facebook.com/torrin.hallett. Thanks to Torrin for composing the piece especially for Virginia Water Radio. This music was used previously by Virginia Water Radio most recently in Episode 480, 7-8-19, on water cycle diagrams. Following are other music pieces composed by Torrin for Virginia Water Radio, with episodes featuring the music. “A Little Fright Music” – used in Episode 548, 10-26-20, on water-related passages in fiction and non-fiction, for Halloween.“Beetle Ballet” – used in Episode 525, 5-18-20, on aquatic beetles.“Chesapeake Bay Ballad” – used in Episode 537, 8-10-20, on conditions in the Chesapeake Bay.“Corona Cue” – used in Episode 517, 3-23-20, on the coronavirus pandemic. “Geese Piece” – used most recently in Episode 440, 10-1-18, on E-bird. “Ice Dance” – used in Episode 556, 12-21-20, on how organisms survive freezing temperatures.“Lizard Lied” – used in Episode 514, 3-2-20, on lizards. “New Year’s Water” – used in Episode 349, 1-2-17, on the New Year. “Spider Strike” – used in Episode 523, 5-4-20, on fishing spiders.“Tropical Tantrum” – used most recently in Episode 489, 9-9-19, on storm surge and Hurricane Dorian.“Tundra Swan Song – used in Episode 554, 12-7-20, on Tundra Swans.“Turkey Tune” – used in Episode 343, 11-21-16, on the Wild Turkey. Click here if you’d like to hear the full version (2 min./22 sec.) of the “Shenandoah” arrangement/performance by Ben Cosgrove that opens and closes this episode. More information about Mr. Cosgrove is available online at http://www.bencosgrove.com. IMAGESShown below are the preliminary maps of Virginia precipitation approximately for 2020 (actually January 5, 2020, through January 4, 2021) from the High Plains Regional Climate Center, online at https://hprcc.unl.edu/maps.php?map=ACISClimateMaps. The maps show total precipitation (in inches), departure from normal precipitation (also in inches), and percent of normal precipitation for the 12-month period ending January 4, 2021. EXTRA INFORMATION ABOUT VIRGINIA PRECIPITATION IN 2020 The table below has details on precipitation in 2020 at 10 National Weather Service (NWS) observation locations in or adjacent to Virginia. The information in the table is from the following sources: “Observed Weather/Annual Climate Report” from the Blacksburg, Va., National Weather Service Forecast Offices, online at https://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=rnk, for Blacksburg, Bluefield, Danville, Lynchburg, and Roanoke; “Observed Weather/Annual Climate Report” from the Morristown, Tenn., National Weather Service Forecast Office, online at https://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=mrx, for Bristol; “Local Data/Records/Top 10 List Precipitation” from the Wakefield, Va., National Weather Service Forecast Office, online at https://w2.weather.gov/climate/local_data.php?wfo=akq, for Norfolk and Richmond; “Local Data/Records/Washington Monthly Precipitation (since 1871)” and “Dulles Monthly Precipitation (since 1960)” online at https://w2.weather.gov/climate/local_data.php?wfo=lwx, for Reagan National Airport and Washington Dulles Airport. [Information not found for Charlottesville and Wallops Island.] According to the NWS, as of January 2021 precipitation values from 2020 are still preliminary; that is, they haven’t undergone final quality control by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC, now called the National Centers for Environmental Information) and therefore are subject to revision. Final, certified climate data are available from online at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov. Normal values currently used by the NWS are based on the period from 1981 to 2010. The NCDC released these normal values in July 2011. For information on the normal values, see the “Climate Normals” Web page at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data/land-based-datasets/climate-normals. 2020 Precipitation Compared to Normal Values at 12 Virginia Locations R = record annual high for the given location. Location notes1 - The Bluefield location is the Mercer County, W. Va., airport, near the Va.-W.Va. state line.2 - The Bristol location is the Tri-Cities Airport in Tennessee, about 20 miles from Bristol, Va./Tenn.3 - The current Washington, D.C., location is Reagan National Airport is in Arlington County, Va.4 - Wallops Island is in Accomack County, Va.5 - Washington-Dulles Airport is in Loudoun County, Va. SOURCES Used for Audio Ian Livingston, Dozens of sites in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest have already logged their wettest year on record, Washington Post, 11/28/18. National Weather Service, “Snow Water Equivalent and Depth Information,” online at https://www.weather.gov/marfc/Snow. National Weather Service Forecast Office Web sites: *Baltimore-Washington, online at https://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=lwx), for Charlottesville, Washington-Dulles Airport in Loudoun County, and Washington-Reagan National Airport in Arlington County;*Blacksburg, Va., online at https://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=rnk, for Blacksburg, Bluefield, Danville, Lynchburg, and Roanoke;*Morristown, Tenn., online at https://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=mrx, for the Tri-Cities Airport, about 20 miles from Bristol, Va.-Tenn.;*Wakefield, Va., online at https://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=akq, for Norfolk, Richmond, and Wallops Island (Accomack County). Jason Samenow and Ian Livingston, Drenched city: 2018 is now Washington’s wettest year ever recorded, Washington Post, 12/15/18. U.S. Drought Monitor, “Tabular Data Archive/Virginia,” online at https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Data/DataTables.aspx?state,VA. U.S. Geological Survey, “Virginia Active Water Level Network,” online at https://groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov/statemap.asp?sc=51&sa=VA. U.S. Geological Survey, “Water Watch/Virginia/Streamflow Time Series Plot,” online at https://waterwatch.usgs.gov/index.php?id=real&sid=w__plot&r=va. For More Information about Precipitation in Virginia and Elsewhere Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHaS), “Virginia Daily Precipitation Reports,” online at http://www.cocorahs.org/state.aspx?state=va. High Plains Regional Climate Center, online at https://hprcc.unl.edu/maps.php?map=ACISClimateMaps). This site provides maps of total precipitation and percent of normal precipitation for various periods of time going back five years. Virginia is in the Southeast region.National Weather Service/Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service, online at http://water.weather.gov/precip/. This site offers maps of precipitation nationwide or by state, with capability to show county boundaries, and archives available for specific days, months, or years. National Weather Service/Hydrometeorological Design Studies Center, “NOAA Atlas 14 Point Precipitation Frequency Estimates: Va.,” online at http://hdsc.nws.noaa.gov/hdsc/pfds/pfds_map_cont.html?bkmrk=va. National Weather Service/Storm Prediction Center, online at http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/. This site provides daily maps and text for preliminary reports of severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hail. U.S. Climate Data, “Climate Virginia,” online at https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/virginia/united-states/3216. Virginia Water Central News Grouper, “Virginia Water Status Report” monthly posts on precipitation and other water status aspects in Virginia, online at https://vawatercentralnewsgrouper.wordpress.com/?s=Virginia+Water+Status. RELATED VIRGINIA WATER RADIO EPISODES All Water Radio episodes are listed by category at the Index link above (http://www.virginiawaterradio.org/p/index.html). See particularly the “Weather/Climate/Natural Disasters” subject category.
On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Chris Inglis, Distinguished Visiting Professor in Cyber Security Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy and a Commissioner on the Cyber Solarium Commission discusses building a more diverse cyber work force, specifically the Cybersecurity Education Diversity Initiative—CEDI, which makes officials and resources such as virtual cyber ranges available to minority-serving institutions through NSA’s National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity
Growing up on an Island in the Puget Sound in Washington State, Paula Whitfield lived and played by the ocean, watching every episode of the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau and diving as often as she could. Her dream was to become a marine scientist. Today, Paula is a research ecologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), working at the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science in Silver Spring. She is collaborating on Engineering With Nature (EWN) projects that focus on coastal and community resilience, driven, in part, by the devastation following Hurricane Sandy. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy had a major impact on the Northeastern United States, resulting in nearly $19 billion of insured damages. As Paula explains, it became a catalyst for NOAA to increase its focus on the use of natural and nature-based features (NNBF) – natural infrastructure – to increase coastal resilience. NOAA’s Natural Infrastructure Working Group developed an action plan for supporting NNBF that, as Paula notes, aligns perfectly with the philosophy and goals of the US Army Corps of Engineers’ EWN initiative. This opened the door for closer collaboration between the two agencies. In this episode, we talk with Paula about the important role of natural features – which include wetlands, mud flats, oyster and coral reefs, mangroves, sea grasses, maritime forests, as well as beaches, dunes and islands – to enhance and improve coastal resilience. She discusses how nature-based strategies are being used to help communities adapt to changing conditions such as sea level rise. For example, natural features tend to more gradually attenuate the impact of waves and currents, providing “speed bumps” that reduce erosion, compared to hardened features that can reflect wave energy to adjacent areas, causing erosion and potentially loss of habitat. Natural and nature-based features also promote coastal resilience, helping communities bounce back quickly after hurricanes and other coastal storms and flooding events, providing the triple-win of preserving ecological function, increasing engineering resilience and enabling socio-economic benefits. We discuss Paula’s current collaboration with colleagues at the US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources that are studying on the restoration of Swan Island in the Chesapeake Bay – a great example of the importance of incorporating NNBF into coastal systems. Swan Island, which provides habitat for dozens of species of migratory birds, has been shrinking at an alarming rate because of sea level rise, subsidence and erosion. Paula describes how sediments, dredged to maintain navigation channels, have been used to restore the island, and improve habitat and buffer adjacent coastal communities from waves and storms. Sharing key learnings and best practices in NNBF is a key aspect of Paula’s role at NOAA. We also talk about her current collaboration on a USACE-led initiative to develop International Guidelines on the use of Natural and Nature-based Features to support practitioners, researchers, engineers and others. The Guidelines will be available at the start of 2021. Related Links: EWN Website ERDC Website National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Paula Whitfield at NOAA Paula Whitfield at ResearchGate Hurricane Sandy Swan Island Restoration International NNBF Guidelines Project
Coral reefs are among the most valuable ecosystems on Earth. Unfortunately, they are declining due to manmade and natural threats. NOAA’s National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) is a massive, collaborative effort that was developed to collect scientifically sound, geographically comprehensive biological, climate, and socioeconomic data in U.S. coral reef areas. In this episode, we speak with Shay Viehman, a Research Ecologist with NOAA’s National Ocean Service in the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, and a contributor to the NCRMP, to learn how NOAA divers turn the data they collect from underwater missions into usable summaries that help scientists study and protect U.S. coral reef ecosystems. Episode permanent link and show notes
This conversation episode is related to Access to Care through Telehealth. Dr. Peck is joined by Kelli M. Garber, MSN, PPCNP-BC. Kelli Garber has been a pediatric nurse practitioner for over 24 years. She has been working in the telehealth space for 6 years and is the Lead APP and Clinical Integration Specialist at the Medical University of South Carolina, one of only two National Centers of Telehealth Excellence. Kelli not only provides care to patients in the school setting in-person and via telehealth, but she has also participated in the development and expansion of the program from 3 schools to over 80 in the last 6 years. Kelli presents locally, regionally, and nationally on the topics of telehealth, APRN professional practice and telehealth and school-based health/telehealth. She also serves as a consultant to providers across the United States who are implementing telehealth programs into their practice and to universities who are incorporating telehealth into their curriculums.
Brought to you by Remarkably Remote, a microcast from GoToMeeting. Looking for a few pointers on keeping you and your team motivated? Head to gotomeeting.com/tips or listen on your favorite podcasting platform. 1896: In 1896 St. Louis was listed as the 5th largest city in the United States, trailing New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and what was then the separate city of Brooklyn. More than half a million people lived there on the banks of the Mississippi River. The morning of May 27, 1896 dawned calm and steamy and belied what was coming that afternoon. One of the greatest natural disasters to strike one of the largest US cities was awaiting residents in the afternoon. In what remains the third most deadly tornado in U.S. history struck St. Louis, on the afternoon of May 27, 1896. According to the National Centers for Environmental Education; shortly before five o’clock that Wednesday afternoon, the devastating tornado struck the city from the southwest, near the Compton Heights district. From there, the tornado made its way down the Mill Creek Valley, destroying countless homes as it headed toward the Mississippi River. Once the tornado made it to the Mississippi, it decimated the steamboats and other vessels in the harbor, breaking them to pieces and scattering them from the Missouri shore to the Illinois shore. Even the Eads Bridge, which was considered “tornado proof” as the first major bridge constructed by making use of true steel, was damaged by the powerful tornado with nearly 300 feet of its eastern approach being torn away. Much of the central portion of St. Louis was also destroyed, as were factories, saloons, hospitals, mills, railroad yards, and churches throughout the city. Across St. Louis, the tornado completely destroyed block after block of residential housing. Hundreds of miles of electric wires and thousands of telephone and telegraph poles were torn down by the fierce winds. The tornado also uprooted trees more than half a century old and hurled them a distance of several blocks. Heavy iron fences, like the one that surrounded Lafayette Park, were twisted and tangled until they were nearly unrecognizable. During the less than half an hour that the tornado was on the ground, it tracked a three-mile-wide path of destruction across St. Louis, killing 255 people, injuring 1,000, and rendering countless families homeless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on Minnesota Native News - tribes make decisions about how to handle the Covid-19 virus outbreak and a reminder that humor helps heal. Here's Reporter Melissa Townsend with those stories and more.STORY #1 - COVID-19 RESPONSES[Governor Walz]In his press conference on March 13th, Governor Tim Walz said that the state is working with tribal governments to handle the Covid-19 outbreak.WALZ: The tribal leadership has sovereignty over making sure… (:05)Patina Park is the state's tribal liaison in this matter. Leaders of each of the tribes in Minnesota are taking a number of steps to protect their citizens from the virus.CHAVERS: We are meeting every morning with our senior management staff at 8:30 at the tribal government building.Cathy Chavers is Chair of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe. She is regularly updating tribal members through the Band's Youtube channel.CHAVERS: Events that are occurring on a minute by minute, hourly basis, we need to be aware of what's to do and procedures and processes to put in place to ensure community safety. (:23)The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe is also issuing updates on its Youtube channel.According to online statements, many tribes have activated their emergency preparedness groups. They are following news from the Minnesota Department of Health and the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Across the 11 tribes, meetings, events and gatherings have been cancelled and travel bans for tribal employees are in effect in many places.As of March 18th, the Fond du Lac and Mille Lacs Bands of Ojibwe are the only tribes that have closed their casinos. They have committed to paying hourly and salary workers throughout their furlough.These precautionary measures and more are in effect until further notice.Many tribes have created a link on their webpages to find out more abouut the precautions they are taking.STORY #2 (1:42)In other news…The State's new Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force is moving forward.The group will create a list of recommendations on how the state can better handle the crisis.Those recommendations are due in December.The task force had planned a set of state-wide listening sessions where people could come and share their stories. The first listening session was at the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center in Minneapolis last month.State Representative Mary Kunesh-Podein, a Dakota descendent, is on the task force steering committee.KUNESH-PODEIN:There are plenty more stories to be heard if folks want to share them and it does help us when we go forward with recommendations with real life experiences.But the task force has cancelled the remaining listening session because of the Covid-19 outbreak. However, people can still share their stories on-line, over email or on the phone.You can search for M-M-I-W on the Minnesota Department of Public Safety website.Or you can call this number: 651-280-2661 and leave a message with your story.That's 651-280-2661.Kunesh-Poein says you can opt to keep your story anonymous if you'd like.KUNESH-PODEIN: We won't publicize names, we won't take these stories public, unless the person wanted to. But these are precious stories and we will treat them with the utmost respect.There is no word yet if deadlines for the task force recommendations will be extended due to the Covid-19 outbreak.STORY #3 - COMEDY NIGHT (1:05)And finally… On April first the House of Comedy comedy club at the Mall of America was supposed to feature its first all Indigenous line-up of comediansRed Lake comic Jon Roberts had set it up.ROBERTS: The booker had a post on facebook. He was asking for ideas for a new show and I just messaged him my idea - have a Native comedy, indigenous comedians night. It went from there, I think he ran it by the club owners and so they asked me if I could book some comics and…And he lined up Rez Reporter Rob Fairbanks, Sheldon Starr and Will Spotted Bear. He did call a few female Native comics - just so you know - but they were booked.Roberts says as a Red laker, comedy serves a special purpose.ROBERTS: It's our way of healing - we're just sharing our stories. And we're just here to help each other. (:05)Since the Mall of America is now closed through at least March 31st, you will need to check back with the House of Comedy to find out when this fun show will happen! Eventually, Roberts hopes it will be rescheduled as a monthly event.
If you are wondering where this winter’s cold temps and wintry conditions are, you’re probably not alone. Globally, this year’s January has been the Earth’s hottest January on record, according to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. Snow trackers also point out that snow coverage in both North America and Europe are significantly lower this … Continue reading "Where is all the snow this winter?"
In the Dec 2019 edition of the CLIMAS Southwest Climate Podcast, Zack Guido is back and joins Mike Crimmins for a discussion of the fall weather that was, and the winter weather that could be. This includes a very wet November, some of the factors that might affect our winter weather patterns, and the challenge of looking further out than a week or two during an ENSO-neutral winter. Happy Holidays! We'll be back in (Jan) 2020 for another look at SW climate and weather. November 2019 ranks from National Centers for Environmental Information - ncei.noaa.gov
In the Dec 2019 edition of the CLIMAS Southwest Climate Podcast, Zack Guido is back and joins Mike Crimmins for a discussion of the fall weather that was, and the winter weather that could be. This includes a very wet November, some of the factors that might affect our winter weather patterns, and the challenge of looking further out than a week or two during an ENSO-neutral winter. Happy Holidays! We'll be back in (Jan) 2020 for another look at SW climate and weather. November 2019 ranks from National Centers for Environmental Information - ncei.noaa.gov
In the Dec 2019 edition of the CLIMAS Southwest Climate Podcast, Zack Guido is back and joins Mike Crimmins for a discussion of the fall weather that was, and the winter weather that could be. This includes a very wet November, some of the factors that might affect our winter weather patterns, and the challenge of looking further out than a week or two during an ENSO-neutral winter. Happy Holidays! We'll be back in (Jan) 2020 for another look at SW climate and weather. November 2019 ranks from National Centers for Environmental Information - ncei.noaa.gov
Episode 5: In this episode, the host, Angie Gust, continues discussing John Travis’s 12 dimensions of wellness as a way to improve your own personal health and wellness. This episode focuses on moving and how the benefits of moving are associated not only with physical health, but mental health as well. She also discusses some good news in energy production, for instance, the bi-facial solar panel, and a couple examples of using the legal system to protect our planet. Several personal actions are suggested so that everyone can be part of the solution. References Ambrose, J. BP solar firm blazes ahead in search for UK's shiniest grass. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/08/bp-solar-subsidiary-sees-the-light-in-search-for-uk-shiniest-grass-lightsource-energy Bartels, M. 6/6/18 Americans Think Climate Change Should Be NASA's Top Priority, Not Sending Astronauts to Mars. Newsweek 6 June 2018 Accessed 24 Aug 2019 https://www.newsweek.com/americans-think-climate-change-should-be-nasas-top-priority-not-sending-963164 Cavicchioli, R et al. Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change. Consensus Statement. 2019 Nature Reviews. CDC. 2016. National Centers for Health Statistics. Leading causes of death. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm Columbia Law School. Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Accessed 8 Aug 2019 http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/climate-change-laws-of-the-world-2/ Earls, M. Whistle-Blower Complaint Highlights CDC Turmoil on Climate. August 14, Scientific America. Accessed 27 Aug2019 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whistle-blower-complaint-highlights-cdc-turmoil-on-climate/ Gibson, T. 2011 These Exercise Machines Turn Your Sweat Into Electricity. https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/conservation/these-exercise-machines-turn-your-sweat-into-electricity Global Climate Change: Evidence. (2008 June 15). Accessed 1 July 2019, from http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Summary for Policymakers (2014) https://archive.ipcc.ch/index.htm Irfan, U. Fossil fuels are underpriced by a whopping $5.2 trillion. May 17, 2019. Accessed 8 Aug 2019 https://www.vox.com/2019/5/17/18624740/fossil-fuel-subsides-climate-imf Lamarche-Gagnon, G et al. 2019.Greenland melt drives continuous export of methane from the ice-sheet bed. Nature 565, 73–77. Naomi Imatome-Yun. 23 Feb 2016 Eric & Peety: A Story of Mutual Rescue. Forks Over Knives. https://www.forksoverknives.com/ericpeetymutualrescue/#gs.pr6xux NY Governor News. Governor Cuomo Announces Green New Deal Included in 2019 Executive Budget https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-green-new-deal-included-2019-executive-budget Pavegen. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCll2ZMEpr1Cz6lh606WD8YA https://pavegen.com/about/ Small Footprint Family. 2018. The time is now: 6 things we must do about climate change. https://www.smallfootprintfamily.com/what-we-can-do-about-climate-change Trevizo. P. Texas sues Exxon Mobil over environmental violations from Baytown fire. Accessed 6 Aug 2019. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/State-sues-ExxonMobile-over-environmental-14284024.php United Nations. The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/takeaction/ WHO. 2018. Top 10 causes of death. Heart disease is the main cause of mortality in the US and globally. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death
In today’s podcast, we hear that CoAp-based DDoS attacks are on the rise. A Nigerian gang has done some industrial-scale work on business email compromise. Ukraine says it stopped a major Russian cyber attack. The EU looks toward its May elections and determines to do something about disinformation. The US National Republican Congressional Committee sustains an email compromise. Attribtution of a phishing expedition to Cozy Bear grows dubious. And Westminster doxes Facebook. Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI explaining the National Centers for Academic Excellence. Carole Theriault interviews SANS’ James Lyne explains the Cyber Discovery program which aims bolster the security workforce. For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief: https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2018/November/CyberWire_2018_12_05.html Support our show
At the heart of our solar system is an enormous, churning ball of hot plasma. The Sun blows a stream of charged particles over our planet, creating the solar wind. Sometimes the Sun flares bursts of x-rays, or burps bursts of charged particles, which can sweep over Earth and potentially create havoc for power grids, satellites, and GPS networks. There is weather in space, and it has more consequences for civilization than you might think. Solar physicist Dan Seaton studies the Sun at the University of Colorado in Boulder and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, where he is working to understand the Sun’s atmosphere and predict when events on the Sun will affect the near-Earth environment. In this episode, Dan explains how space weather and space weather prediction is analogous to Earth weather—and how it is not—and how what happens on the Sun can affect us here on Earth. Read a new paper by Dan and his colleagues about how solar flares disrupted radio communications during the September 2017 Atlantic hurricane relief effort.
Recorded in Washington DC, on July 25, 2018. The SWEF brought together the space weather community to share information and ideas among policymakers, senior government leaders, researchers, private-sector service providers, space weather information users, media, and legislators and staff from Capitol Hill to raise awareness of space weather and its effects on society. This year's event sharpened the focus on critical infrastructure protection, with the necessary underpinnings of research, improved products and services, and applications to serve a broad and growing user community. The ultimate goal is to improve the Nation’s ability to prepare for, avoid, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the potentially devastating impacts of space weather events on our health, economy, and national security. This recording features an opening address and presentations and a panel discussion about the risks and impacts associated with space weather. Speakers Opening Address: Representative Ed Perlmutter (CO-7) Ms. Devon Streit, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Security and Energy Restoration, Department of Energy Mr. Ralph Stoffler, Director of Weather, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force Dr. James Spann, Acting Heliophysics Division Chief Scientist, Headquarters NASA Dr. William Lapenta, Director, National Centers for Environmental Predictions, NOAA Moderator: Mr. Ben Reed, National Space Council More details can be found at the event page on the SWF website.
This episode made me sad to have to deliver, but this is a subject that is important to talk about. Better now than after another child is abused. Violations of youth protection result in pain that can last a lifetime. It's important to talk about the pain that's already happened, but it is equally important to talk about making it harder for this kind of abuse to happen in the future.Today's kids are tomorrow's victims - unless we do something to prevent that from happening.In this episode, we reveal the system that we put in place to prevent abuse in our Club. Learn how we do it, and share what best practices you may be aware of.In this Episode[spp-timestamp time="01:08"] Framing my perspetive on Youth Protection[spp-timestamp time="01:38"] Assumptions: Predators are on the Hunt[spp-timestamp time="03:06"] Predators are (and have been) among us[spp-timestamp time="03:46"] Our 4-step process for protection[spp-timestamp time="03:54"] Step 1: Creating and being clear about the rules[spp-timestamp time="04:22"] Two-deep leadership[spp-timestamp time="04:48"] Use the school system[spp-timestamp time="05:13"] Darkness to Light[spp-timestamp time="06:21"] Leverage other clubs[spp-timestamp time="7:02"] Mandatory items for all coaches and adult volunteers who work with children[spp-timestamp time="07:24"] National Centers for Safety Initiatives (NCSI)[spp-timestamp time="08:24"] Getting arrested vs creating a record[spp-timestamp time="10:48"] After the offense[spp-timestamp time="12:21"] Background checks alone are not enough[spp-timestamp time="14:06"] Step 2: Communicate often with parents and coaches[spp-timestamp time="16:08"] Counseling players safely[spp-timestamp time="18:41"] Two-way communication[spp-timestamp time="20:04"] Step 3: Reinforcing the rules as often as possible[spp-timestamp time="21:58"] Step 4: Review the rules each year during annual planning[spp-timestamp time="23:14"] Prevent the news from happening (Summary)ResourcesFeinstein, and Dianne. “Text - S.534 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act of 2017.” Congress.gov, 14 Feb. 2018, www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/534/text.“National Center For Safety Initiatives - Protecting Vulnerable Populations.” National Center For Safety Initiatives - Protecting Vulnerable Populations, www.ncsisafe.com/.“Homepage.” Darkness to Light, www.d2l.org/.
How much does climate change cost taxpayers? A report released last week by The National Centers for Environmental Information pegged that total cost at $1.5 trillion, including estimates for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. Instead of working to reduce the impact of climate change the Trump administration is developing more oil and gas.
Join Rev. Ginger and Dr. Martin on Tuesday, January 31, 2017, for an awesome and informative show on "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE" Her guest Queen AFI is the mother of a young lady shot by her boyfriend. Are you afraid to leave…Don’t be ~ Easier said than done…No, it’s not. ~ “PLANNING “ is important! Join the call on Tuesday, January 31, 2017, with "A Pinch of Ginger" at 7:00 PM EST. Are your children involved in domestic violence? An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. Source:Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States. 2003. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Centers for Injury Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA. 85% of domestic violence victims are women. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001, February 2003.
Dr. Ruth Kelty, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Dr. Ruth Kelty discusses a broad range of jobs in environmental sciences. Dr. Kelty has her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in Coral Reef Technology. She currently works for NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Science, Oxford, MD. Dr. Kelty also coordinates an internship program between NOAA and Washington College, funded by Washington College.
Looking for a little deep sea adventure? Today's Diving Deeper Shorts podcast explores how scientists map the sea floor and what a day is like on a research mission. Join us as we revisit our episode with Tim Battista from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science.
In less than a decade, lionfish have become widely established across the Southeast U.S. and Caribbean. Recent estimates indicate that lionfish have surpassed some native species with the highest estimates reporting hundreds per acre in some locations. In today's Diving Deeper, we explore invasive lionfish with James Morris from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science.
Learn about mapping coral habitats on the sea floor and why these maps are important in this interview with Tim Battista from NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Biogeography Branch.
Learn about harmful algal blooms, also known as HABs, in this interview with Allison Still, former coordinator of the Phytoplankton Monitoring Network with the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. These blooms occur when phytoplankton, which are tiny microscopic plants, grow quickly in large quantities while producing toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and birds.
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