"Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."
-Jonas Salk
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Silver Lining
I think one of the minor benefits of the huge catastrophes has been an increase in contact between climatologists and operational meteorologists. I am looking forward to conversations with a couple of them as we try to figure out exactly how weird the recent events in Asia actually were in some sort of objective sense.
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We could also do with re-assessing potential costs, cf.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10943606
"The UN has launched an appeal for $459m (£290m) to help victims of Pakistan's flood disaster."
The international community has thus far failed to meet that target; presumably in future that problem will only get worse.
"The skeptics are sweating"
http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/15/stu-ostro-weather-channel-global-warming/
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