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Tech report: Natural catastrophes - The real 'Day After Tomorrow'?
(From Reinsurance)
It's always been tempting to look back at the end of the year and assess just how bad it was for the planet in general in terms of natural disasters - and 2005 was a bad one, but it could have been much worse.
In terms of natural catastrophes, 2005 was dominated by windstorms and flooding, but was mercifully free of some of the other potential disasters that eternally lurk in the shadows of our worst nightmares.
Starting off with the biggest potential calamity, something rather interesting has happened in the area of global warming over the past year: supporters of the theory of this phenomenon seem to be winning, while ...
- Weather maker.(This Week)(North Atlantic's Gulf Stream )(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Science News Perkins, Sid March 15, 2008 700+ words
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The North Atlantic's Gulf Stream affects the overlying atmosphere more strongly than...satellite images reveal that the atmosphere over the Gulf Stream hosts thunderstorms and stronger convection more often...
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...rotation to deflect their path. The curvature of the Gulf Stream into a great North Atlantic gyre is caused in part by the spin swirling it...seaboard of the United States. Figure 2. The Gulf Stream by Benjamin Franklin. The colder Labrador Current...
- Gulf Stream
- Reference information from: Earth Explorer February 1, 1995 700+ words
...Monaco, viewed the Gulf Stream as a river in the North Atlantic Ocean. Franklin mapped...New York City, the Gulf Stream branches off and gets a new name: the North Atlantic Drift. The Gulf Stream moves about 4 billion...
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Climate Álvarez-García, F; Latif, M; Biastoch, A July 15, 2008 700+ words
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- The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the...
- Magazine article from: Science News Seppa, Nathan September 13, 2008 700+ words
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- The Gulf Stream: Hot Stuff!
- Magazine article from: Jack & Jill July 1, 1999 700+ words
...water called the Gulf Stream flows near Iceland...the south. The Gulf Stream is warmed by...flows toward the north Atlantic Ocean. Greenland...and across the North Atlantic. English captains...water of the Gulf Stream. But did Ben...
- The Gulf Stream and the epic drives of Joyce and Walcott.(James Joyce, Derek...
- Magazine article from: ARIEL McGarrity, Maria October 1, 2003 700+ words
...edges of the North Atlantic. While the connections...a use of the Gulf Stream in particular...the base of the Gulf Stream to another archipelago...shores. The Gulf Stream links Ireland...opposite edge of the North Atlantic. We can then...
- Study Finds Surprising Pathway For North Atlantic Circulation
- Magazine article from: Sea Technology Anonymous August 1, 2009 700+ words
...Conveyor model says the Gulf Stream-warmed ocean releases...atmosphere in the northern North Atlantic, leaving ocean water colder...path in the interior of the North Atlantic. The study, by co-principal...turbulent interior of the North Atlantic and much more ...
