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Former Member
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 KLiK in Europe we have windstorms.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_windstorm They are a meteorlogically diffent animal from the hurricanes typically forming in tropical waters. And hurricanes are similar to what goes on in Asia by the names of typhoons or cyclones https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/cyclone.html Ophelia was one of the dangerous beasts. As for Denmark which is regularly hit by windstorms, the recent four years have been eerily calm, however. I share a good deal of your concern, KLiK. My belief is that Mother Earth has always had climate changes.  15 miles from where I live we have the remnant of a coral sea that is being mined for construction purposes. And corals require a certain minimum temperature to have a good life. But I also believe human activity can disrupt/worsen what otherwise would have been a "normal' cycle. Finally I believe that it is wrong to make statistics over too short periods of time. It was cold yesterday = we'll have a new ice age tomorrow It was hot yesterday = all ice will melt tomorrow What do you find is the worst weather phenomenon in Croatia? |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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What do you find is the worst weather phenomenon in Croatia? Well, we ONLY have the FASTEST STRAIGHT BLOWING WIND in the WORLD here. Measuring up to 304km/h, as of 2003. Check info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_(wind)#Areas_hit So, we're one tough "son of a b...." here! (that other word for "resilient")  An island where the Bura is most strongest has no green on it, from the wind erosion. So traveling with ferry to it is "an adventure" in winter, but also has almost no green on it:  Coming to Žigljen on Pag looks something like crossing sea to the Moon. It's so out of this Earth, than many movie crews come to shoot commercials & PR stunts here, like Mercedes:  Although Pag island is connected on southern part with land, most of the time in winter traffic there is "prohibited" EVEN FOR CARS. Check here, no flora, not even dirt. Only a rock despises the Bura wind there:   But despite that, Croatia is one of the beautiful places in the Europe & in the World. |
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I had no idea of the beauty of your country, KLiK. Thank you for showing us - although the Mercedes picture is mighty big and breaks the walls.
In the future you could either link to those big ones or perhaps find some smaller ones (sometimes difficult, I know).Also, I had no idea of the wind speed record. Thought it was Mount Washington, New Hampshire (once the wind was so strong that the wind gauge broke), but it turns out that this record has been beaten, and Croatia's as well if we talk worldwide. Copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_(New_Hampshire)#Climate "Mount Washington once held the world record and still holds the Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere record for directly measured surface wind speed, at 231 mph (372 km/h), recorded on the afternoon of April 12, 1934. A new wind speed record was discovered in 2009: on April 10, 1996, Tropical Cyclone Olivia had created a wind gust of 408 km/h (254 mph) at Barrow Island off the coast of Western Australia. (Satellite and radar measurements, e.g. of tornadoes, hurricanes, and air currents in the upper atmosphere, do not compete with records for surface measurements.)" My neighbors flew with Norwegian Air to Sarajevo this summer, so maybe I should burn off my cash points and go to Croatia  |
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KLiK
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Thanks for the correction. Didn't know that!
----------------------------------------Also, we have shoot there a car that we make in company I work for: https://www.google.hr/search?q=rimac+pag&...1920&bih=1134#imgrc=_ (too large pics to put in the forum) Be sure to check out Plitvice national lakes: http://www.np-plitvicka-jezera.hr/en/ Or similar national parks. Or during the summer, there's plenty of other coastal things to do. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 2 times, last edit by KLiK at Oct 24, 2017 3:41:52 PM] |
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Returning to the fascinating subject of clean, renewable energy from wind power- ideal for windy places. 42.1% of all electricity used in Denmark in 2015 was generated by wind turbines. That is the highest figure ever, and it is the highest figure for any country in the world as well. We aim for 50% by 2020. In June 2017 the most recent addition of six turbines were put on line generating power for 20,000 homes, the picture showing the start of the assembly. Here is a time lapse video showing the assembly of the huge 8mW turbines on the West Coast - and finally my own photo of those babies taken a year ago. The "little" towers in the background are idle oil rigs. - small country, large hardware  |
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Former Member
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Also, we have shoot there a car that we make in company I work for: https://www.google.hr/search?q=rimac+pag&...1920&bih=1134#imgrc=_ KLiK, that one beautiful car  How come I never heard about that? I think prejudice got in the way. Former Yugoslavia = Yugo  And it seems it runs on clean-energy-environmental-friendly-energy batteries as the Tesla? |
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GeraldRube
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https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/09/22/m...ncid=txtlnkusaolp00001361
----------------------------------------And while Rothman acknowledges that a link between carbon cycle disruptions and a significant wipeout of species is still unknown, he found that the dynamic nonetheless applied to the five past extinction events from the previous 450 million years—including the one believed to have killed the dinosaurs. Meanwhile, another study released in July suggested, “there’s growing evidence that a sixth mass extinction is unfolding,” according to CBS News.  |
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adriverhoef
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With insects disappearing at an alarming rate, I'd say that the mass extinction has already started.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/...ats-not-a-good-thing.html |
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Excerpt from a news item in DR (Danish Radio):
----------------------------------------"The Americans are talking about investing $ 400 billion in ocean wind farms by 2050 and Danish green companies hope to get a nice portion of that. The USA currently has but one single wind farm at sea with five turbines of a total of 30 megawatts. The park is located off Rhode Island* on the east coast. There is room for much more. Especially for the states of Massachusetts and New York, the turbiness are expected to shoot off the ocean." *which happens to be my home state for six years Isn’t it wonderful to be able to tap wind energy as well as solar energy in that great country? EDIT: I didn't catch Google Translate's 'hopes' which should be the plural form 'hope'. Corrected. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 27, 2017 1:06:04 AM] |
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With insects disappearing at an alarming rate, I'd say that the mass extinction has already started. Quoting your link: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/...ats-not-a-good-thing.html But you don’t have to be a scientist to observe this phenomenon. Just get in a car and start driving. As Hallmann told the Post, going for a drive and then checking the windshield for bug guts is “probably one of the best illustrative ways to realize we are dealing with a decline in flying insects. Exactly. I wondered myself how clean that windshield stayed this summer ... |
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