• In February 2007, two tornadoes struck Lake
County, Florida, killing 21 people, all in mobile
homes.
• In no case did we find that anybody died in a
mobile home built after 1994.
• Homes built to the wind code were 79% less likely
to be destroyed than homes built prior to 1976.
Mitigation: From the Ivory
Tower to the Real World
• Does regulation work?
– Clearly enhanced building codes provided
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Iceland's representative on Climate Week NYC will be Birta Líf Kristinsdóttir, Icelandic Met Office, one of eleven TV meteorologists who were asked to make a weather forecast for their own country in 2050 based on the visions of the newest IPCC report. These weather forecasts of the future are presented as a set of videos, made in collaboration with WMO and published one per day until
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volume towards a new steady state of the glacier in the case of a “moderate” step change
in climate.
The relative importance of the mass-balance–elevation feedback and the reduction in ice-
covered area may be analysed with reference to the perturbation equation
d(DV )
dt
= B0+beDA+GeDV = B
0
DV
tV
; (3)
where the volume time-scale tV is given by
tV =
1
( be=H) Ge
; (4)
(Harrison and others, 2001
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forecast on its
web-page and warnings if conditions change to the worse.
o Instructions from the office of the Chief Epidemiologist and The Environment
Agency can be found on their web-sites www.ust.is and www.landlaeknir.is
o The Icelandic Met Office will read forecasts for sulphuric gases along with
weather news on the national radio and TV.
o The Environment Agency is working on getting more
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forecasts for sulphuric gases along with
weather news on the national radio and TV.
o The Environment Agency is working on getting more measuring equipment
to better monitor the gases coming from the volcanic eruption.
o Information and any questions on air pollution can be sent to The
Environment Agency through the email gos@ust.is. The Environment Agency
is especially looking for information from
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on their
web-sites www.ust.is and www.landlaeknir.is
The Icelandic Met Office will read forecasts for sulphuric gases along with weather news on the national
radio and TV.
The Environment Agency is working on getting more measuring equipment to better monitor the gases
coming from the volcanic eruption.
Information and any questions on air pollution can be sent to The Environment
/media/jar/myndsafn/Factsheet_Bardarbunga_20140916.pdf
– Further Work
Solar Technologies
Passive Solar
HeatingSolar Thermal
PanelSolar PV
Solar Beam Concentrators
Solar PV
Solar Technologies
Solar
Furnace
Solar Tower
Solar Island
Space Based Solar
Solar Technologies
Some novel (and not so novel) applications
UK Solar Resource
present and future
Data for present climate (baseline) and
future solar climate variability
• World Meteorological
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to the worse.
o Instructions from the office of the Chief Epidemiologist and The Environment
Agency can be found on their web-sites www.ust.is and www.landlaeknir.is
o The Icelandic Met Office will read forecasts for sulphuric gases along with
weather news on the national radio and TV.
o The Environment Agency is working on getting more measuring equipment
to better monitor the gases coming from
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