On paper, making the connection between specific extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy and climate change is seen as a communications strategy.
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Most important, they would diminish future hurricane damage, whether climate-induced or not.
These include central station alarms to alert police when a break-in is occurring, a plan to remove valuables to a nearby fine-art storage facility or a specially constructed safe room in one's home during a hurricane or tornado, and climate controls that ensure levels of heat, cooling and humidity appropriate to works of art.
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It doesn't plan for the infrastructure spending we will need to respond to the consequences of climate change (like hurricane relief) or anticipate the investment we could make to avoid such problems in the first place.
As Hurricane Sandy prepared to strike the Northeast, climate scientists from alarmist and skeptical camps alike reported the storm had little if anything to do with global warming.
And we're starting to feel the consequences of all that carbon output as climate change leads to freakish superstorms like Hurricane Sandy.
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy has focused minds on the urgency of improving the climate resiliency of coastal cities exposed to the fury of extreme weather events and rising seas.
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Customers will now have the ability to conduct missions, 24x7, through all weather conditions, across most of the planet to help solve some of the world's critical problems such as global climate change, ocean acidification, fisheries management, hurricane prediction, tsunami warning and exploration for valuable natural resources.
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The outlook issued last week by the Climate Prediction Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls for "considerable activity" this hurricane season in the Atlantic.
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