"18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970"
Could they be wrong cuz we took action? You know what I'm talking about. EPA, clean air laws, clean water laws, acid rain laws, ozone hole laws, etc, etc. There were 28 major environmental laws passed within the first 10 years.
This was from last year.
46 Environmental Victories Since the First Earth Day
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"we’re actually in the longest major hurricane drought in US history of 11 years (and counting):"
Some people think hurricanes only count if they hit the US, and then, only if they make landfall as a 3. That means Sandy
doesn't count.
While the U.S. has been in a major hurricane drought since 2005, those top level storms have actually become more common in the Atlantic basin.
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Asian typhoons becoming more intense, study finds
Giant storms that wreak havoc across China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines have grown 50% stronger in the past 40 years due to warming seas
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Super Typhoon Haiyan as it made landfall in the Philippines. NOAAEarlier this month, Super Typhoon Haiyan stunned the meteorological community. The Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which tracked the storm, estimated its maximum one-minute sustained wind speeds at more than 195 miles per hour based on satellite imagery. If confirmed, that would exceed the official wind speed estimates for all other hurricanes and typhoons in the modern period. (Prior to 1969, some Pacific storms were recorded as stronger, but these measurements are now considered too high.)
But here’s the thing: Haiyan isn’t the globe’s only record-breaking hurricane in recent years
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