Michael Tobis, editor-in-chief of Planet3.0 and site cofounder, has always been interested in the interface between science and public policy. He holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences where he developed a 3-D ocean model on a custom computing platform. He has been involved in sustainability conversations on the internet since 1992, has been a web software developer since 2000, and has been posting sustainability articles on the web since 2007.
Excellent, timely image capture.
Tokyo, 35 million people, low-lying - well prepared - facing the equivalent of a Category 1 storm.
Then, of course, there's Fukushima area.
Look at these three storms and ask yourself this question: What are they at their essence?
Heat transference.
This is how heat moves from hot to cold, always.
[Sort of, yeah, I guess. So? -mt]