No one would have believed, in the last years of the 19th century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own.
So begins the H.G. Wells classic The War of the Worlds, the story of an alien invasion of our planet. Equipped [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Could Saharan Dust Storms Slow Hurricane Season?
October 25, 2006
When Will It Be Our Turn?
October 17, 2006
Top down or top up? When I drive to the television station each weekday afternoon the top of my convertible is still up, the windows still shut and the air conditioning (thank goodness) still humming.
The calendar may say autumn but it still summer in South Florida. But, it won’t be long before I can put [...]
El Niño: He’s Back
October 17, 2006
It was a clear, calm day at the bottom of the Earth when an iceberg known a B15A suddenly broke into a half-a-dozen pieces. Scientists, monitoring the Antarctica ice shelf from satellite photographs, were stunned and confused. What could cause the 60-mile-long iceberg to fall apart?
The answer was even more surprising. Seismometers planted in the [...]
What Hurricane Season?
October 17, 2006
It was unanimous.
There was no disagreement.
The top experts in the hurricane prediction business all agreed: the 2006 season was going to be another incredible year.
Dr. William Gray and his young protégée, Philip Klozbach, forecast 17 named storms would form this year, the most storms ever predicted in the 22-year history of the [...]
