Physicist and media personality Michio Kaku, introduced as "one of the greatest minds of our time" in this January 3, 2012 CNN broadcast, gives his weather predictions for 2012.
Among them: An increasing likelihood of strange weather, including freak snowstorms, droughts and tornadoes, not to mention solar flares that knock out the Internet.
And here's an explanation of the reasons why global warming produces freak snowstorms that Kaku contributed to CNN last January.
Kaku visits the Writers Institute on Tuesday, February 21st in the Campus Center Ballroom to talk about his new book Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Predicting the Weather in 2012
Monday, November 14, 2011
Isabel Wilkerson: Stuck in an Albany Snowstorm
Isabel Wilkerson (who visits Tuesday 11/15) talks with Paul Grondahl in the TU:
"Isabel Wilkerson's introduction to winter in Albany was one she would rather forget.
She was a 25-year-old reporter at The New York Times, assigned to cover the state Legislature during the 1986 session. She drove upstate and parked her Honda Civic near her apartment, across from Washington Park, as a snowstorm approached.
She emerged the next morning to find the car half-buried in a snowbank churned up by a city plow. Lacking a snow shovel to dig out, she started gunning the engine. Tires spun, squealed and smoked. She rapidly shifted the automatic transmission from forward to reverse, and back again. The engine started making terrible noises.
"I blew out the transmission," she recalled with a groan. "I was totally unprepared for an Albany winter."
Read more in Paul Grondahl's profile in Friday's Times Union.
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