By Daniel Brouse August 13, 2023 Physicist Sidd Mukherjee said, “Wind and water flow forces scale as the square of velocity, so as flow speeds increase (say due to more intense heating or heavier rain) the damage scales as the square of the velocity. That force is proportional to density times square of velocity (v^2).” […]
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Hawaii Wildfires Increased Flow Volumes, Damage, and Deaths
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Climate Change: Increasing the Energy
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Technically Speaking, It’s Not the Momentum That Kills You It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end. Technically speaking it is the impact from the momentum that causes damage and deaths. Global warming causes an increase in mass and/or velocity (momentum) of things […]
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Climate Change: A Hard Rain Is Falling
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee In a vacuum, everything falling to earth accelerates at 9.8 m/s^2 (32ft/s^2) [the downward speed increases at 9.8 m/s (32 ft/s) every second.] Rain accelerates down to earth initially at 9.8 m/s^2, but air resistance slows the drops to a constant speed called the terminal velocity which depends on […]
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Also tagged climate change, damage, extreme weather events, rain
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