Hurricanes

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and/or squalls. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by different names, including hurricane (), typhoon (), tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, or simply cyclone. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, and a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean; in the south Pacific or Indian Ocean, comparable storms are referred to simply …

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DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …

Following the devastating impact of separate hurricanes in 1944 and 1951, the government opted to construct


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 17 May 2024 English

GDP growth suggests sound economic development in Trinidad and Tobago from 1995 to 2020. In contrast, a study of the nation's comprehensive wealth paints a picture of moderate progress at …

temperatures; extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, floods, droughts and storms; increases in sea


CIRANO: Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations · 16 May 2024 French

Les résultats des analyses de contenu et des entretiens menés auprès de gestionnaires et de dirigeants œuvrant dans l’industrie agroalimentaire québécoise mettent en lumière quatre principaux types de motivations : …

such as floods, droughts, frosts, earthquakes, hurricanes and pestilence. Adverse weather conditions and


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models …

displaced by the slow and fast violence of volcanoes, hurricanes, and government indifference and brutality:


Fraser Institute · 18 April 2024 English

Assertions are made claiming that weather extremes are increasing in frequency and severity, spurred on by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions. Based on such assertions, governments are enacting ever more restrictive …

changes in our daily weather patterns—wildfires, hurricanes, heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, and so clearly been shown to be increasing. Hurricanes and Cyclones Hurricanes and tropical cyclones are also fre- of extremes over the last 50 years related to hurricanes and tropical cyclones. Roger Pielke Jr. is a from 2003–2020. Pielke has made the study of hurricanes a critical focus in his work for over three Sr., also a noted climate researcher) titled Hurricanes: Their Nature and Impacts on Society (Pielke


Fraser Institute · 18 April 2024 English

Assertions are made claiming that weather extremes are increasing in frequency and severity, spurred on by humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions. Based on such assertions, governments are enacting ever more restrictive …

No evidence of increasing droughts, floods, hurricanes and wildfires, despite activist claims April events—including forest fires, droughts, floods and hurricanes—are not increasing in frequency or intensity trends (in flood risk) than increasing trends. • Hurricanes: Research conducted for the World Meteorological 2023) found no long-term trends in hurricanes or major hurricanes recorded globally going back to 1980


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 4 April 2024 English

Deviant traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood, examining love, fear, grief, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with …

landed on the lake, its wings propelling little hurricanes. How many times the word “future” gets sucked


MHCC: Mental Health Commission of Canada · 14 March 2024 English

The natural environment is changing, and people are worried about what it means for the future. That worry, which is increasingly becoming severe enough to cause distress and dysfunction, is …

environmental change (e.g., floods, forest fires, hurricanes, drought) or exposure to climate change information


FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 7 March 2024 English

“this threat and Incredibly, a segment of the CBC’s Fifth Estate was devoted to the Coastal from where it is GasLink extremist attacks but devoted most of the segment to …

surrounding weather events like wildfires, floods, or hurricanes to advance their extremist agenda. These events


ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Canada · 5 March 2024 English

Resilient Infrastructure Projects City of Saskatoon Erin Placatka, Climate Adaptation Specialist Resilient Infrastructure Projects City of Laval Dominique Bastien, Environmental Advisor Getting Ready to Finance Toolkit Ewa Jackson, Managing Director, …

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