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...altitude of 21,000 ft., crossed over the Mediterranean at night and enjoyed a meal of emu. On a satellite phone, Jones chatted with his wife, who spent most of her time at mission control at Geneva's Cointrin Airport, which was manned around the clock by a meteorologist and an air-traffic controller. Piccard's wife Michele preferred to stay at home with their three daughters...
When he first proposed his heretical ideas early in the century, many geologists treated this German meteorologist as if he were a member of the Flat Earth Society. Convinced that the continents were anchored firmly in place, geologists dismissed as preposterous his theory that the earth's major land masses had once been huddled together in a single supercontinent, which he called Pangaea (Greek for "whole earth"), then began slowly drifting apart. Wegener had plenty of evidence, ranging from the jigsaw-like fit of the continents to the discovery of matching fossils on opposite sides of oceans, but he couldn...
...German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of continental drift...
Whether this turns out to be the key factor or just one of many, the trend toward more damaging hurricanes is clear. The reason was made explicit in a study done by Christopher Landsea, a research meteorologist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, and Roger A. Pielke Jr., a social scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. They looked at the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history and then, says Pielke, posed the question: "If history repeats itself, and it certainly will, what might we expect?" To answer...
...trying to unravel the detailed behavior of El Nino, Ralph and dozens of other researchers are furthering a scientific quest that began in the 1920s, when the British meteorologist Sir Gilbert Walker linked swings in atmospheric pressure over the Pacific to a disastrous failure of the Indian monsoon 50 years earlier. In the 1960s, UCLA meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes suggested that El Nino was governed by the same swings in atmospheric pressure...