Dr. Jeff Masters, September 10, 2010
Director of Meteorology, Weather Underground
A tropical disturbance over the Lesser Antilles Islands is bringing heavy rain showers and gusty winds to those islands, and is a threat to develop into a tropical depression early next week. The disturbance is expected to bring heavy rains of 3 - 6 inches to the Dominican Republic on Sunday, and these rains may spread to Haiti, eastern Cuba, Jamaica, and the southeast Bahamas early next week. In the far eastern Atlantic, Tropical Depression Igor is poised to begin a period of steady strengthening that will bring it to hurricane status by early next week. Sea Surface Temperatures in the tropical Atlantic were at their warmest levels on record in August, the 7th consecutive month with record warm.
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Dr. Ricky Rood, September 3, 2010
Professor, University of Michigan
Who is the Audience? What to Do ? (2) At the bottom is a short Pakistan update.In the previous article I argued that much of the “opposition” to climate change was politically motivated or politically aligned. With such political positioning a communications and education strategy motivated by the opposition only feeds the political argument. This is especially true in “crisis situations,” where reactions to the crisis serve to build and perpetuate the crisis. Then some become vested in maintaining the crisis, including those whose primary goal is to seed doubt ...
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