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I. Close the Business Schools
Ask anyone professing the humanities today and you come to understand that a medieval dimness looms. If this is the end-times for the ice sheets at our poles — and it is — many of us also understand that the melt can be found closer to home, in the elimination of language and classics departments, for instance, and in the philistinism represented by governors such as Rick Scott of Florida and Patrick McCrory of North Carolina, who apparently see in the humanities a waste of time and taxpayer subsidies. In the name of efficiency and job creation, according to their logic, taxpayers can no longer afford to support bleary-eyed poets, Latin history radicals, and brie-nibbling Francophiles.
That there is a general and widespread acceptance in the United States that what is good for corporate America is good for the country is perhaps inarguable, and this is why men like Governors Scott and McCrory are dangerous. They merely invoke a longstanding and not-so-ugly stereotype: the pointy-headed humanist whose work, if you can call it that, is irrelevant. Among the many easy targets, English departments and their ilk are convenient and mostly defenseless. Few will rise to rush the barricades with us, least of all the hard-headed realists who understand the difficulties of running a business, which is what the university is, anyway.
I wish, therefore, to propose a solution that will save money, save the humanities, and perhaps make the world a better place: Close the business schools.
The Market Argument
We are told that something called "the market" is responsible for the great disparities in pay between humanities professors and business professors. To a humanist, however, this market is the great mystifier; we find no evidence of an "invisible hand" that magically allocates resources within the university. The market argument for pay differentials between business professors and historians (average pay in 2014 for full professors at all institutions: $123,233 and $86,636, respectively, a difference of almost 30 percent; average at research institutions is $160,705 and $102,981, a difference of 36 percent), for instance, fails to convince that a market is operating. This is because administrators and trustees who set salaries based upon what the market can bear, or what it calls for, or what it demands, are actually subsidizing those of us who are who are manifestly out of the market.
Your average finance professor, for instance, is not a part of this market; indeed, she is a member of the artificial market created by colleges and universities themselves, the same institutions that tout the importance of critical thinking and of creating the well-rounded individual whose liberal arts study will ostensibly make her into a productive member of our democracy. But the administrators who buy the argument that the market allocates upward of 20, 30, or 40 percent more for the business professor than it does her colleague in the humanities have failed to be the example they tout: they are not thinking.
The higher education market for business professors and legal scholars, for instance, is one in which the professor is paid as if she took her services and sold them on what is commonly call the market. Which is where she, and her talents, manifestly are not. She is here, in the building next to ours, teaching our students and doing the same work we are. If my daughter cuts our lawn, she does not get paid as if she were cutting the neighbor's lawn.
The business professor has sacrificed the blandishments of the other market for that of the university, where she can work softer hours, have her December/January vacation, go to London during the summer on a fellowship or university grant, and generally live something approaching the good life — which is what being employed by a college or university allows the lucky who earn tenure. She avoids the other market — eschews the long hours in the office, the demands of travel, the oppressive corporate state — so that she can pick up her kids from school on occasion, sleep in on a Saturday, and turn off her smartphone. She may be part of a machine, but it is a university machine, and as machines go she could do worse. This "market" is better than the other one.
But does she bring more value to the university? Does she generate more student hours? These are questions that administrators and business professors do not ask. Why? Because they wouldn't like the answers. They would find that she is an expensive acquisition. Unless she is one of the Wharton superstars and appears on CNN Money and is quoted in The Wall Street Journal, there's a good chance that the university isn't getting its money's worth.
The Moral Argument
There is another argument for wishing our business professor adieu. She is ostensibly training the next crop of financiers and M.B.A.s whose machinations have arguably had no salutary effects on this democracy. I understand that I am casting a wide net here, grouping the good with the bad, blaming the recent implosion of the world economy on business schools. One could, perhaps, lay equal blame on the mathematicians and quantitative analysts who created the derivative algorithms and mortgage packages that even the M.B.A.s themselves don't understand, though there's a good chance that business school graduates hired these alpha number crunchers.
Our investment bankers and their ilk will have to take the fall because, well, they should have known better. If only because, at bottom, they are responsible — with their easy cash and credit, their drive-through mortgages, and, worst of all, their betting against the very system they knew was hopelessly constructed. And they were trained at our universities, many of them, probably at our best universities, the Harvards and Princetons and Dartmouths, where — it is increasingly apparent — the brightest students go to learn how to destroy the world.
I am not arguing that students shouldn't take classes in accounting, marketing, and economics. An understanding of these subjects holds value. They are honorable subjects often horribly applied. In the wrong hands they become tools less of enlightenment and liberation than ruthless self-interest. And when you have groups of like-minded economic pirates banding together in the name of self-interest, they form a corporation, that is, a person. That person, it is now apparent, cannot be relied upon to do the right thing; that person cannot be held accountable.
It's not as if this is news. Over 150 years ago, Charles Dickens saw this problem, and he wrote A Christmas Carol to address it. The hero of Dickens's novella is Jacob Marley, who returns from the grave to warn his tightfisted partner Ebenezer Scrooge that he might want to change his ways. When Scrooge tells Marley that he was always a "good man of business," Marley brings down the thunder: "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"
In closing the business schools, may the former professors of finance bring to the market a more human side (or, apropos of Dickens, a more ghostly side). Whether or not they do, though, closing the business schools is a necessary first step in righting the social and economic injustices perpetuated not by capitalism but by those who have used it to rend the very social fabric that nourishes them. By planting the seeds of corporate and financial tyranny, our business schools, operating as so many of them do in collusion with a too-big-to-fail mentality, have become the enemy of democracy. They must be closed, since, as Jacob Marley reminds us, we all live in the business world.
II. Save the Humanities
Closing the business schools will allow us to turn our attention more fully to the state of the humanities and their apparent demise. The 2013 report released by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which asserts that "the humanities and social sciences are not merely elective, nor are they elite or elitist. They go beyond the immediate and instrumental to help us understand the past and the future." As if that's going to sell.
In the wake of the academy's report, The New York Times dutifully ran three columns on the humanities — by David Brooks, Verlyn Klinkeborg, and Stanley Fish — which dove into the wreck and surveyed the damage in fairly predictable ways (excepting Fish, whose unpredictability is predictable). Brooks remembers when they used to teach Seneca and Catullus, and Klinkeborg looks back on the good old days when everyone treasured literature and literary study. Those days are gone, he argues, because "the humanities often do a bad job of teaching the humanities," and because "writing well used to be a fundamental principle of the humanities," though it apparently is not anymore. Why writing well isn't a fundamental principle of life is perhaps a better question.
We might therefore ask: Aside from the typical obeisance to something called "critical thinking," what are the humanities supposed to do?
I propose that one of the beauties of the liberal arts degree is that it is meant to do nothing. I would like to think, therefore, that the typical humanities major reads because she is interested in knowledge for purposes outside of the pervasive instrumentalism now fouling higher education. She does not read philosophy because she wants, necessarily, to become a philosopher; she does not read poetry to become a poet, though she may dream of it; she does not study art history, usually, to become an art historian, though she may one day take this road.
She may be in the minority, but she studies these subjects because of the pleasure it gives her. Reading literature, or studying philosophy, or viewing art, or watching films — and thinking about them — are pleasurable things. What a delight to subsidize something that gives her immediate and future joy instead of spending capital on a course of study that might someday allow her to make more money so that she can do the things she wants to do at some distant time. Henry David Thoreau said it best: "This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once." If you want to be a poet, be done with it.
Does she suffer for this pleasure?
It is an unfortunate fact of our political and cultural economy that she probably does. Her parents wonder helplessly what she is up to and they threaten to cut off her tuition unless she comes to her senses. The governor and legislature of her state tell her that she is wasting her time and that she is unemployable. She goes to her advisers, who, if they are in the humanities, tell her that the companies her parents revere love to hire our kind, that we know how to think critically and write clearly and solve problems.
And it isn't that they are lying, exactly (except to themselves). They simply aren't telling her the whole truth: that she will almost surely never have the kind of financial success that her peers in business or engineering or medicine will have; that she will have enormous regrets barely ameliorated by the thought that she carries the fire; that the digital humanities will not save her, either, though they may help make her life slightly more interesting.
It is with this problem in mind that I argue for a vision of the university as a place where the humanities are more than tolerated, where they are celebrated as intrinsic to something other than vocationalism, as a place in which the ideology that inheres to the industrial model in all things can and ought to be dismantled and its various parts put back together into something resembling a university and not a factory floor.
Instead of making the case that the humanities gives students the skills to "succeed in a rapidly changing world," I want to invoke the wisdom of Walt Whitman, one of the great philosophers of seeming inactivity, who wrote: "I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."
What does it mean to loafe? Whitman is reclining and relaxing, but he is also active: he "invites" his soul and "observes" the world around him. This conjunction of observation and contemplation with an invitation to the soul is the key here; using our time, energy, and intellectual faculties to attend to our world is the root of successful living. A world of contemplative loafers is one that can potentially make clear-eyed moral and ethical judgments of the sort that we need, judgments that deny the conflation of economic value with other notions of value.
Whitman would rather hang out with the men who brought in the catch than listen to the disputations of science or catch the fish himself: "You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle." While I am not necessarily advocating a life of sloth, I'm not arguing against it, either. I respect the art of study for its own sake and revere the thinker who does nothing worthwhile, if by worthwhile we mean something like growing the economy. Making a living rather than living is the sign of desperation.
William Major is professor of English at Hillyer College of the University of Hartford. He is author of Grounded Vision: New Agrarianism and the Academy (University of Alabama Press, 2011).
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The Modern Language Association report on the Ph.D. in languages and literatures has already succeeded in sparking a lively debate. Some commentators have welcomed the report's general findings, while others have taken issue with its specific recommendations. Beyond these differences, a broad consensus has emerged that the current situation is unsustainable, and this recognition is key to moving forward. The relationship of doctoral education to the deteriorating conditions of the academic workforce demands transformative changes. If doctoral study is to thrive in more than a handful of elite institutions, the profession as a whole and at multiple levels must adopt a reform agenda. The urgency of change was the premise of the task force report, and change is what the critics of the report also demand.
The agreement goes even further. Like its critics, the members of the MLA task force that produced the report point to the persistently weak job market and the importance of advocating an increase in tenure-track positions. The report similarly criticizes the casualization of academic labor and the poor working conditions of most contingent faculty members. This advocacy stands explicitly in the tradition of the MLA, which in recent decades has analyzed and criticized these developments while providing resources such as the Committee on Contingent Labor's two recent projects: "Professional Employment Practices for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members" and a 2013 special issue of the ADE and ADFL Bulletin on contingent labor. I know my colleagues on the MLA Executive Council are committed to pursuing activism in this area and leading the scholarly association network toward collective action .
Yet the report does more than call for advocacy. It also calls for change within graduate programs, and this is where the consensus breaks down. Some critics of the report have staked out the position that the MLA should focus primarily on job market and working conditions issues and not on the academic programs in which our members teach and study. While the task force report underscores the importance of the labor question, it also recommends that the MLA engage the profession in considering internal reforms to serve graduate students more effectively. The difference between what the report says and what its critics argue is particularly clear on three points.
First, some complain that the report does not call for deep cuts in admissions to doctoral programs. Only such cuts, they argue, could address the weak job market in which there are more qualified candidates than tenure-track positions. In contrast, the task force report insists on maintaining accessibility to doctoral programs: Qualified students with an intellectual dedication to the fields of language and literature should have the opportunity to pursue advanced study. Access to higher education is a hallmark of a democratic society, and it is the precondition of diversity in our fields Still, if critics want to call for the closing of programs, which programs, one might ask, should be eliminated? How will closings not end up disadvantaging public institutions, where the majority of first-generation college students study? Calls to shutter departments rather than reform them most likely will play into the hands of university budget-cutters. The scope of the humanities in higher education in the United States already faces significant reduction. We should be fighting for the humanities rather than closing off advanced study, the key to their sustained presence in colleges and universities.
The labor market critics are proposing what amounts to a guild protectionism: by reducing access to doctorate education, the limited pool of degree holders will be guaranteed abundant and better jobs. This strikes me as a gross miscalculation that will only end with diminished opportunities for all students. In contrast, the MLA report envisions humanities education with a potential for growth in response to the expanded intellectual scope of our fields as well as to society's changing needs in classrooms and beyond.
A second flashpoint of dispute is time to degree. The report recommends that departments design programs that can be completed in five years and provide sufficient financial support for students to do so. Some commentators have viewed this time frame as an assault on quality. The point, however, is that currently around half of doctoral students take more than a decade to complete the Ph.D., which represents an enormous investment in time with limited prospects for return on the academic job market. Furthermore, there are no legitimate grounds for median time to degree in humanities fields to be significantly longer than in doctoral programs in the natural and social sciences. There would be nothing wrong for humanities scholars to adopt potentially more effective educational practices from these other fields. We language and literature faculty members need to develop and share new ideas for mentoring students, and departments need to ask how programs might be designed more effectively. As the appendix of the report demonstrates, some departments are already leading the way through reform initiatives that integrate the intellectual demands of humanistic study with a prudent rethinking of program structure.
A third point involves career outcomes for graduate students. It should be obvious to all faculty members that, as the MLA's 14 studies of Ph.D. placement make evident, at best only about half of new modern language doctorate recipients find tenure-track positions in the same year that they complete their degrees, and under 40 percent when academic job opportunities contract, as they did in the 1990s and have again since 2008. (Figure 2 in "Our PhD Employment Problem, Part 1" shows the summary findings for all 14 surveys, 1978 to 2010.)
Departments have an obligation to make this clear to applicants, yet such candor alone does not absolve departments of the responsibility of providing students with opportunities for professional development that can serve them well on multiple career paths. That is why the report points to possibilities such as curriculums designed to develop transferable skills, enhanced engagement with technology, and more effective use of other resources found throughout the university. The report also underscores the importance of pointing students to diverse career possibilities, not by singling out students for job-market tracking, but instead by engaging the graduate student community in exploring a widened career arc.
Doctoral recipients have a rich set of skills — in communication, research, and leadership — and those who do not find a tenure line should not have to settle for poorly compensated contingent positions. Those who view a job as a college professor as the only legitimate outcome of doctoral education fall into that labor market trap. That's why the report emphasizes the importance of discussing the broad range of career paths and providing students with the resources they need to expand their employment horizons.
Nonetheless, doctoral study should not be viewed exclusively as the pursuit of a career-oriented credential. It must also involve an intellectual passion for languages and literatures, as defined by our evolving disciplines. This is the foundation of successful graduate study. The qualities cultivated through intensive, long-term research and thoughtful, extended writing are not just transferable to other careers; they are valuable in their own right, just as it would be valuable to our culture as a whole — and particularly to the future of the academy — to have highly educated professionals who appreciate scholarly thoughtfulness and humanistic perspectives working throughout society. It has been pointed out in the public discussion of the report that many of its recommendations are not new. The academic community has been talking about these issues for a long time, and change is already under way. Time to degree is coming down, and some departments are initiating salutary program modifications. The profession has reached a tipping point, and the time has come for broad-based change. Doctoral study in the humanities fields contributes to the quality of society, it answers individual students' desire for intellectual depth, and it is a vital piece in the intellectual diversity of universities. If we want to preserve it, we need to reform it.
Russell A. Berman is professor of comparative literature and German studies at Stanford University. He led the task force that produced the MLA report.
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"I'm flexing my muscles. Come see me flex my muscles!"
The digital humanities (DH) is a proud discipline. Its members will be the first to tell you when they have done something impressive. Lately, that pride has started to wear on our non-digital colleagues who have quietly begun pushing back, by setting aside applications that look a little too digital, and rejecting high-profile journal submissions from digital scholars. I can't prove it, but as an early-career scholar, I can feel it. They don't like us.
But maybe it's not them. Maybe it's us.
For the past decade we've been living in the age of digital hubris, and we can therefore hardly blame people for getting sick of us. Did you hear about the size of Soandso's newest grant? Or did you read the latest on Whatshisname's research in The New York Times? Did you know more people read that popular DH student's blog post yesterday than have ever read your book?
In April, one of the most successful DH projects of all time turned 11 years old. The Old Bailey Online (OBO) first appeared in 2003, and brought 127 million words of transcribed criminal trial records to the Internet. In the decade since its launch, 309 publications have cited the OBO, the project has helped thousands of genealogists piece together their family histories, and it has even inspired a television series. As far as academic projects go, few have as much to be proud of as the OBO.
So 11 years on, what do the project leaders regret? Their hubris.
Professor Tim Hitchcock, one of the principal investigators, wrote on his blog that his enthusiasm for the project's potential had "simply raised the ire of a group of historians ... who felt their own expertise was somehow threatened."
It's not just their expertise that humanists see as being under threat. Traditional humanities monographs are becoming economically unfeasible. Nonetheless, the perceived slow death of the book hasn't been enough for many scholars in the digital humanities. They want everyone to know their stance: good riddance! Why bother with a publisher and a two-year turnaround when the internet is free and immediate?
Research budgets everywhere are being slashed, yet there always seems to be a million here or a hundred thousand there to get the next big DH project off the ground. That means less money for traditional research. A few years ago a historian colleague of mine assured me that she "does her own research" and didn't need to waste grant money hiring someone to do it for her. She was a real researcher -- or so implied the cold fury in her intonation.
Who cares what other people think, we might say. On their own these non-digital colleagues won't be able to put a stop to the private funding, or national-level competitions targeted at DH projects, or the pressure from humanities departments to attract grant funding. However, while they continue to sit on hiring committees, adjudication panels, and act as peer reviewers, they do still hold a number of keys to the academic world. A dose of digital humility may be in our collective best interest, not least for the sake of those of us just starting our careers.
DH is inherently interdisciplinary. My "core" discipline is history. As a (recent) graduate student, that meant my scholarship and job applications typically went through panels of historians. When the application was for something digital or not explicitly disciplinary, I (with all humility) did quite well. But if I had to convince a group of anonymous historians that my work was worthy, I seemed destined for the "no" pile.
Times are tough. I can accept that there are other great candidates out there who may have been better for the job, or more worthy of the scholarship. But it's not just me. Most of my colleagues in Britain were self-funded during their Ph.D.s, or supported their studies as part-time developers and project managers. I know of none with the golden-ticket scholarships that have long been a measure of the top students in the humanities. I'm grateful I can support myself in other ways. But it's difficult to ignore the feeling that young scholars are being kept on the other side of the gates by an establishment that's decided those DH people get enough already.
I've seen it in traditional publishing venues as well. One of the most influential digital history articles ever written has been repeatedly rejected by traditional historical journals and is still without a home. This is despite the fact that I'm quite confident that if you are a DH scholar you would recognize the visualization that formed the basis of the article.
Some scholars are getting cunning in an effort to sidestep this digital backlash. A colleague of mine working at the corner of DH and history obfuscated his digital connections in an effort to get hired by a history department. It worked. I followed suit and immediately found my prospects improved when applying for funding.
Is it a conspiracy? No. DHers have many allies in the halls of power. But we all have room for more friends, and the wave of early-career scholars in the field can ill-afford to have people on their selection committees and peer review panels viewing them as a threat, or as arrogant, just because of their field of study.
We can dig in for another decade of covert gatekeeping, or we can move into a new phase of digital humility and mend the divide that has grown between us. I'm sure everyone would agree that DH's proper place is alongside traditional humanists, supplementing rather than eradicating their techniques with new ways of looking at old problems. Non-digital scholars add depth to our breadth, and focus to our vision.
So I'd like to encourage DH to join me in a decade of digital humility, in which we remind our colleagues that we're all here because we love the humanities. We appreciate their work, even if we don't always say so. And we'd like to be on the same team.
That doesn't mean we need to stop flexing our muscles. We've worked hard on them. But, when we are flexing, maybe we can let people notice on their own.
Adam Crymble is a lecturer in digital history at the University of Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom.
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EA typically drops a new Need for Speed game each year but as we've recently learned, that won't be the case in 2016.
In a blog post published earlier today, it was revealed that the recent SpeedList update would be the last free content update for the current Need for Speed title.
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Could global warming increase wind shear over the Atlantic, potentially leading to a decrease in the frequency of Atlantic hurricanes? There is a growing consensus among hurricane scientists that this is indeed quite possible. Two recent studies, by Zhao et al. (2009), "Simulations of Global Hurricane Climatology, Interannual Variability, and Response to Global Warming Using a 50-km Resolution GCM", and by Knutson et al. (2008), "Simulated reduction in Atlantic hurricane frequency under twenty-first-century warming conditions", found that global warming might increase wind shear over the Atlantic by the end of the century, resulting in a decrease in the number of Atlantic hurricanes. For example, the second study took 18 relatively coarse (>60 km grid size) models used to formulate the 2007 IPCC climate report, and "downscaled" them using a higher-resolution (18 km grid size) model called ZETAC that was able to successfully simulate the frequencies of hurricanes over the past 50 years. When the 18 km ZETAC model was driven using the climate conditions we expect in 2100, as output by the 18 IPCC models, the authors found that a reduction of Atlantic tropical storms by 27% and hurricanes by 18% by the end of the century resulted. An important reason that their model predicted a decrease in the frequency of Atlantic hurricanes was due to a predicted increase in wind shear. As I explain in my wind shear tutorial, a large change of wind speed with height over a hurricane creates a shearing force that tends to tear the storm apart. The amount of wind shear is critical in determining whether a hurricane can form or survive.
Figure 1. Top: predicted change by 2100 in wind shear (in meters per second per degree C of warming--multiply by two to get mph) as predicted by summing the predictions of 18 climate models. Bottom: The number of models that predict the effect shown in the top image. The dots show the locations where tropical storms formed between 1981-2005. The box indicates a region of frequent hurricane formation where wind shear is not predicted to change much. Image credit: Geophysical Research Letters, "Increased Tropical Atlantic Wind Shear in Model Projections of Global Warming", by Vecchi and Soden, 2007.
Since the Knutson et al. study using the 18 km resolution ZETAC model was not detailed enough to look at what might happen to major Category 3 and stronger hurricanes, a new study using a higher resolution model was needed. This was done by a team of modelers led by Dr. Morris Bender of NOAA's GFDL laboratory, who published their results in Science in February. The authors used the GFDL hurricane model--the model that has been our best-performing operation hurricane track forecasting model over the past five years--to perform their study. The GFDL hurricane model runs at a resolution of 9 km, which is detailed enough to make accurate simulations of major hurricanes. The researchers did a double downscaling study, where they first took the forecast atmospheric and oceanic conditions at generated by the coarse (>60 km grid) IPCC models, used these data to initialize the finer resolution 18 km ZETAC model, then used the output from the ZETAC model to initialize the high-resolution GFDL hurricane model. The final results of this "double downscaling" study suggest that although the total number of hurricanes is expected to decrease by the end of the century, we should expect an increase of 81% in the number of Category 4 and 5 storms in the Atlantic. This trend should not be clearly detectable until about 60 years from now, given a scenario in which CO2 doubles by 2100. The authors say that their model predicts that there should already have been a 20% increase in the number of Category 4 and 5 storms since the 1940s, given the approximate 0.5°C warming of the tropical Atlantic during that period. This trend is too small to be detectable, given the high natural variability and the difficulty we've had accurately measuring the exact strength of intense hurricanes before the 1980s.The region of the Atlantic expected to see the greatest increase in Category 4 and 5 storms by the year 2100 is over the Bahama Islands (Figure 2), since wind shear is not expected to increase in this region, and sea surface temperatures and atmospheric instability are expected to increase there.
The net effect of a decrease in total number of hurricanes but an increase in the strongest hurricanes should cause an increase in U.S. hurricane damages of about 30% by the end of the century, the authors compute, assuming that hurricane damages behave as they did during the past century. Over the past century, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes made up only 6% of all U.S. landfalls, but accounted for 48% of all U.S. damage (if normalized to account for increases in U.S. population and wealth, Pielke et al., 2008.)
Figure 2. Expected change in Atlantic Category 4 and 5 hurricanes per decade expected by the year 2100, according to the Science paper by Bender et al. (2010).
These results seem reasonable, since the models in question have been successfully been able to simulate the behavior of hurricanes over the past 50 years. However, the uncertainties are high and lot more research needs to be done before we can be confident of the results. Not all of the IPCC models predict an increase in wind shear over the tropical Atlantic by 2100, so the increase in Category 4 and 5 hurricanes could be much greater. Also, the GFDL model was observed to under-predict the strength of intense hurricanes in the current climate, so it may not be creating enough Category 4 and 5 hurricanes in the future climate of 2100. On the other hand, IPCC models such as the UKMO-HadCM3 predict a very large increase in wind shear, leading to a drastic reduction in all hurricanes in the Atlantic by 2100, including Category 4 and 5 storms. So Category 4 and 5 hurricane frequency could easily be much greater or much less than the 81% increase by 2100 found by Bender et al.
The estimates of a 30% increase in hurricane damages by 2100 may be considerably too low, since this estimate assumes that sea level rise will continue at the same pace as was observed in the 20th century. Sea level rise has accelerated since the 1990s, and it is likely that this century we will see much more than than the 7 inches of global sea level rise that was observed last century. Higher sea level rise rates will sharply increase the damages due to storm surge, which account for a large amount of the damage from intense Category 4 and 5 hurricanes.
Keep in mind that while a 30% in hurricane damage by the end of the century is significant, this will not be the main reason hurricane damages will increase this century. Hurricane damages are currently doubling every ten years, according to Pielke et al., 2008. This is primarily due to the increasing population along the coast and increased wealth of the population. The authors theorize that the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, a Category 4 monster that made a direct hit on Miami Beach, would have caused about $150 billion in damage had it hit in 2005. By 2015, the authors expect the same hurricane would do $300 billion in damage. This number would increase to $600 billion by 2025 (though I think it is likely that the recent recession may delay this damage total a few years into the future.) It is essential that we limit coastal development in vulnerable coastal areas, particularly along barrier islands, to reduce some of the astronomical price tags hurricanes are going to be causing. Adoption and enforcement of strict building standards is also a must.
The authors of the GFDL hurricane model study have put together a nice web page with links to the paper and some detailed non-technical explanations of the paper.
Bender et al., 2010, "Modeled Impact of Anthropogenic Warming on the Frequency of Intense Atlantic Hurricanes", Science, 22 January 2010: Vol. 327. no. 5964, pp. 454 - 458 DOI: 10.1126/science.1180568.
Vecchi, G.A., B.J. Soden, A.T. Wittenberg, I.M. Held, A. Leetmaa, and M.J. Harrison, 2006, "Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing", Nature, 441(7089), 73-76.
Vecchi, G.A., and B.J. Soden, 2007, "Increased Tropical Atlantic Wind Shear in Model Projections of Global Warming", Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L08702, doi:10.1029/2006GL028905, 2007.
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Trinidad and Tobago are actually considered part of the Wayward Islands, not the Lesser Antilles, as I had thought. Errr....I mean Windward. Night Folks. |
I am from Connecticut originally. We caught some great blue fish and striped bass in Long Island Sound. Down here in Florida it's flounder and grouper mostly. And of course shrimp. |
Quoting Chicklit: Anytime! |
Quoting Chicklit: Well I used to go fishing all the time off the Louisiana Coastline pre-Katrina and every year the Gulf water temperature would dramatically warm up in the last week of April into the first week of May. So in my opinion it is pretty safe to assume that in the next month that the Gulf of Mexico will warm quite a bit. Plus, both the GFS and ECMWF show continued ridging over the central CONUS with the axis being just east of the Mississippi River Valley which will only enhance warming. |
holy flipping sugar |
Hi SevereH. Really, that quickly? |
Bets are on regarding when to expect rain in the Lesser Antilles. |
Re: 1415 -- Care to explain? |
Quoting Chicklit: You won't be able to tell the difference in about a month. |
Quoting Drakoen: Here's a link Drak. Link |
The GOM is cooler now than in April 2005. The Caribbean, however, is on fire. |
Quoting SevereHurricane: Where are you getting the MDR average? |
Concerning the Severe Weather Threat for the Mid MS Valley: img src="http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/md/mcd0288.gif" alt="" MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0288 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1016 PM CDT WED APR 07 2010 AREAS AFFECTED...CENTRAL KY/SERN INDIANA/SWRN OH/MIDDLE TN CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 63...64... VALID 080316Z - 080515Z THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 63...64...CONTINUES. COMPLEX LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS -- WITH EMBEDDED BOWS AND AN ASSOCIATED/LOCAL THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUES ACROSS THE TN AND MID OH VALLEY REGIONS. DESPITE INCREASINGLY UNFAVORABLE THERMODYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS -- AHEAD OF AN ADVANCING FRONT -- HAS PERSISTED EWD ACROSS THE TN/MID OH VALLEY REGION THIS EVENING. SEVERAL STRONGER BOWING LINE SEGMENTS PERSIST ATTM ACROSS WW 63 AND 64...THOUGH SOME GENERAL WEAKENING HAS BEEN OBSERVED OVER THE PAST HOUR. STILL...WITH THE CONVECTION APPARENTLY BEING SUSTAINED MORE DYNAMICALLY THAN THERMODYNAMICALLY...IT APPEARS POSSIBLE THAT THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS MAY PERSIST FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS -- LONGER THAN WOULD OTHERWISE BE EXPECTED. ..GOSS.. 04/08/2010 ATTN...WFO...ILN...LMK...OHX...IND...HUN...PAH...MEG... LAT...LON 34258951 36708796 37408665 38728605 39118382 36658556 34768768 34258951 |
Quoting Drakoen: Yea.. We are a tad warmer in the MDR now compared to 2005 but not by much. The MDR on average is only .25C warmer now than 2005. |
Quoting SevereHurricane: The difference lies in the warmer temperature anomalies in the MDR now than 2005. |
Not much of a difference... April 5, 2005 April 5, 2010 The only major difference between these two maps is the water temperature anomalies in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. |
orang julius I haven't had one of those since I live up in CT at the waterford mall like 15 years ago!!! |
As I have mentioned in earlier posts about this, the weaker sub-tropical high, or Azores High, has lead to lighter trade winds blowing across the Atlantic, thus allowing SSTs to warm to above normal levels. In fact, this is exactly what an El Nino is in the Pacific. Perhaps there needs to be a name for the Atlantic version. That's a funny comment....the two processes are not the same at all...the light trades over the eastern Atlantic are not caused by the same things that cause light trades over the Pacific. |
evening wunderbloggers!!!,I believe were the TUTT sets up this year,especially during july-august-sept will play a large part in the strength of most of the threatening TCs this season,imo;) |
Yes,,but he was Hanging out near the Orange Julius most the time though. |
Did anyone see stormtop at the National Hurricane conference? |
Thankfully, SPC Preliminary Storm Reports are much lower than the last 2 days. |
am back at the home office now after attending the National Hurricane Conference in Orlando, FL. It was a great week of learning, discussions and seeing long-time friends and colleagues. Now, it is time to get ready for the upcoming hurricane season which begins in less than two months. A lot of talk has been made about the very warm water that has been prevalent in the tropical Atlantic since the beginning of the year. I have written a few posts about it and it seems that this has the potential to play quite an important role in this year's hurricane season. However, the Gulf of Mexico still remains well below normal, sea surface temp-wise, in most of that region. That is about to change. Take a look at the graphic below. It is today's SST anomaly map from NOAA/NESDIS. As you can clearly see, the Gulf is painted in mostly blues and even some purples- indicating significant departures from normal on the negative side. But notice the Loop Current nosing its way up through the central Gulf. Also notice the positive anomalies in the Caribbean, getting warmer the farther east you go. Those two features, coupled with the strong and increasing sun angle, will mean that Gulf SSTs will be back to normal, and possibly above in some places, very soon. The reason the water is so cool, relative to average, is because of the relentless onslaught of storms this winter that brought cold air and strong winds to the open Gulf. This is reversing now and with the abundant warmth in the East and South, water temps are rebounding quickly. This is all part of the overall larger picture of SSTs that are running as much as two degrees C above normal across the entire tropical Atlantic- roughly south of 20 degrees latitude. As I have mentioned in earlier posts about this, the weaker sub-tropical high, or Azores High, has lead to lighter trade winds blowing across the Atlantic, thus allowing SSTs to warm to above normal levels. In fact, this is exactly what an El Nino is in the Pacific. Perhaps there needs to be a name for the Atlantic version. Sea surface temps are only part of the overall equation when dealing with tropical cyclones. While there is mounting evidence to suggest that a very busy hurricane season is coming, it is no guarantee and no one knows where any hurricanes that do form will ultimately end up. None the less, people who are looking forward to fishing, boating and enjoying the usually warm Gulf, it's coming. by Mark Sudduth |
30 Day SOI value is now only -1.4! El Nino is toast! |
Quoting Tropicsweatherpr: Yup. The cooler subsurface temperatures are strengthening while the warm subsurface temps are weakening. If the CFS forecast holds true we should see cool subsurface anomalies reach the surface by May: |
Another thing that hasn't been noted much is the Indian Ocean Dipole. The positive phase of the IOD is marked by anomalously warmer temperatures in the western Indian Ocean and anomalously cooler temperatures in the eastern Indian Ocean. The positive phase means increased convective activity over the Sahel region, the negative phase is the opposite. Positive Phase: Negative Phase The CFS forecast for a positive phase of the IOD to develop in August and September: |
Quoting tornadodude: Saw that t-dude. Quite a line there. |
Quoting Drakoen: Is that the last gas of El Nino? |
Quoting hydrus: Back in the "good ol' days" TWC was all about weather, people who "ate, drank and slept weather". Real live weather forecasts!! NOW, TWC is a commercialized weather show, more concerned about "their sponsors"!! By the way, it's my opinion the Severe Weather threat for mid TN is diminishing. Looks like a heavy rain event, maybe 40 MPH winds and small hail. |
Quoting Chucktown: I think its' great TV mets are involved on here. We could use more around here |
Quoting Bordonaro:They were weather reliable years ago. Lets face facts Bord, We are getting older and times are changing. All the youngins look at us like were weird, when it is really them. :) |
Quoting presslord: Thanks Press, thats why I've been working so much, my little side kick you speak of is on vacay - at least its been nice. We could use some rain, maybe tomorrow night. Weekend looks fantastic !! |
Temperature anomalies in the MDR have grown since April 1. April 1: April 7: |
Quoting hydrus: We recently added Dish Network, I watched TWC for the first time in a few years. It is NOT The Weather Channel anymore :o( |
April 1: April 7: |
Brad...and his short, Catholic side kick...are the weather voices of record 'round here....and they have delivered us some mighty fine days lately... |
Quoting RitaEvac: That has also disturbed me some. Massive near-mega quakes happening every other week, snow in Florida followed in January and now there is a massive heatwave in the Northeast, for April that is. The first actively named tropical cyclone (Anita) formed in March since Cyclone Catrina. El Nino forcasted to turn into La Nina to boot.. |
Quoting BDAwx: I don't think this blog can handle a Hurricane like that. I think the blog would literary explode. |
Quoting winter123:They have lost quite a few good mets over the years. I do not watch twc anymore. I can find what I need here. I still like Steve Lyons Though, He is good. |
Quoting Levi32: Its very frustrating at times. We do air a hurricane show in June, but mainly about what to do and where to go. Not so much about predictions. Presslord will tell ya. He's from these parts and went through Hugo. |
Brad, you did good. Succinct and understandable for the layman, well done. |
Quoting Chucktown: You did a good job for the time you had. It is hard to explain everything in a short time....that's why TV segments aren't the greatest outlet, but they do reach the most people. |
Quoting Levi32: Yea, its tough trying to condense so much info into a minute and at the same time keep it easy to understand for the viewer. I bet just about anyone on this blog could talk about this upcoming season for several minutes or more. |
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States should consider reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, establish a national human rights commission and publicly acknowledge that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity, a United Nations working group said Friday.
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Some of the working group's members, none of whom are from the United States, said they were shocked by some of the things they found and were told.
For example, "it's very easy in the United States for African-Americans to be imprisoned, and that was very concerning," said Sabelo Gumedze of South Africa.
Federal officials say 37 percent of the state and federal prison populations were black males in 2014. The working group suggests the U.S. implement several reforms, including reducing the use of mandatory minimum laws, ending racial profiling, ending excessive bail and banning solitary confinement.
"What stands out for me is the lack of acknowledgement of the slave trade," said Ricardo A. Sunga III, who lives in the Philippines.
The working group suggests monuments, markers and memorials be erected in the United States to facilitate dialogue, and "past injustices and crimes against African-Americans need to be addressed with reparatory justice."
The group will suggest several U.S. changes to improve human rights for African-Americans, which also include establishing a national human rights commission, ratifying international human rights treaties, asking Congress to study slavery and its aftereffects and considering reparations .
Of the 10.7 million African Slaves ever shipped to the New World only 388k went to America. That's only 3.6%
The Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent was established in 2002 by the then-Commission on Human Rights, following the World Conference against Racism in 2001.
It also visited the United States in 2010, where its final report found similar problems, including blacks facing disproportionately high unemployment, lower income levels, less access to education, "problematic access to quality health-care services and the high incidence of certain health conditions, electoral disenfranchisement and structural issues in the administration of justice (in particular incarceration rates)."
The current panel will give its final findings to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva in September.


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The Northwest Shearwater joined the fleet in September 1991, making it the fifth in the fleet. It is operated by BP Shipping Ltd and flies the Bermudan Flag.
The Northwest Swan Loading at Karratha Gas Plant Jetty 1.
The Northwest Sanderling was the first to ship in the fleet to carry North West Shelf LNG to Japan.
The Northwest Snipe was completed in September 1990 to be the fourth LNG carrier in the fleet.
The Northwest Swan Officers manoeuvring into port at Karratha.
Routine watch keeping in the engine room.
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2016 concluded with the annual safety conference in Oita, supported by Kyushu Electric. Over 50 buyers and terminals were represented from across Japan. Productive dialogue focussed on safety initiatives and clearly identified challenges and actions for the year ahead. A visit to Oita LNG terminal provided attendees with the opportunity to understand new terminal tsunami defence measures. The 2017 safety conference will be hosted by Chugoku Electric in Hiroshima.
In early October the Northwest Seaeagle made her first call to Chubu Electric's Joetsu terminal. We were pleased to arrange a gift exchange ceremony with the Terminal Management. Master and crew of the vessel participated in a ship-shore fire drill, simulating a manifold area fire and evacuation of the casualties. The drill included utilization of shore response teams and both ship and shore firefighting facilities. The exercise attracted attention from local dignitaries, government, media and other industry representatives
Northwest Sanderling successfully completed an incident free refit at Sembcorp Marine Singapore. NWS Shipping thank the Ship's Crew and the Sembcorp Marine project team for their hard work, dedication and commitment towards safety throughout the refit period. Since 2005 NWS Shipping and Sembcorp Marine have completed over 9 million man hours free of a lost time incident. An excellent achievement by all involved and a safety performance to be rightly proud of.
On 23 March 2016, NWSSSC achieved an important milestone by conducting its first emergency un-berthing exercise at a Japanese terminal. The NW Swan completed a successful drill at Sakai LNG terminal, verifying simulated vessels performance. The exercise was carried out safely and efficiently, confirming good cooperation by all parties. The exercise was witnessed by NWS Shipping General Manager Erick Weston and North Asia Manager Drago Pinteric.
NWS Shipping Tokyo team members recently attended the 23rd LNG Operations Safety Awareness week organised by Mitsubishi Cooperation. Over 200 industry members shared information on safety of navigation, shipping compliance, LNG as marine fuel and LNG STS operations. Engagement with key NWS Shipping stakeholders in Singapore has occurred focused on 2015 shipyard projects. This annual engagement seeks to identify best practices with an open dialogue about lessons learned and scene setting for another year of productive and safe dry dockings.
Recently the North West Shelf (NWS) Project's fleet completed a full year without a Lost Time Injury, a Medical Treatment Case or a Restricted Work Case. Significant milestones like this, resulting in no harm to people can only be achieved through an outstanding and continuous commitment to safety by all those on board the vessels and by shore management. The NWS Project congratulates all involved on this excellent achievement and wishes our seafarers all the best for many more safe voyages.
The Northwest Snipe recently completed a major refit at the Sembcorp Marine Admiralty Yard. The 55 day project was completed three days ahead of schedule with over 250,000 man hours worked and no injuries to personnel.
NWSSSC is proud of this achievement and would like to thank all the ship's officers and crew, the shore side project management team and Sembcorp for all their hard work in providing an injury free environment throughout the project.
The annual Ship Shore meeting was held at Tohoku Electric, Sendai in September. All NWS Project Japanese LNG buyers, agents and many terminal representatives attended. NWSSSC presented on ship vetting, refits, port state control and Standardised Compatibility Confirmation List.


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happy birthday, maria robledo!
Looking for a way to wish our friend Maria Robledo a belated Happy Birthday, we found this clip of Wynton Marsalis and a friend improvising on that simple tune…building and building on until it became some big joy…
(…at the end he says "You see all the many ways we were conversing with each other?", reminding us the improvising is always a conversation…with something…)
…That led us to other wondrous renditions of that tune, like this sweet little homemade video made by two sisters …
"Knock. Knock."
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If you take prescription medications in Canada and do not have health insurance with your employer, our post will save you some money.
It will be a surprise to some readers that some private insurance does not cover all of the prescription drug dispensing fees – depending on the plan.
We found that the lowest cost drug dispensing fees in Canada are at Costco.
You may be saying well, I don't have a Costco membership.
Did you know that you don't have to be a Costco member to buy your drugs there.
Pharmacists are required by law to dispense medications equitably to everyone (to require membership would be discrimination).
Simply stroll in and advise the Costco greeter/gatekeeper that they are heading to the pharmacy. No problem.
If you do not have a Costco membership, remember, you can only buy prescriptions at Costco. Over-the-counter medications, vitamin supplements, beauty products, and other items in the pharmacy area are off-limits.
To see just how much you can save by purchasing drug prescriptions at Costco, check out this comparative table of the dispensing fees of several pharmacies in British Columbia (assuming prices are similar across Canada).
Store | Drug Dispensing Fee |
The above data is current as of March 8, 2012 | |
Costco | $4.46 |
Pharma Plus / Medicine Shoppe | $9.49 |
Zellers | $9.54 |
Save On Foods | $9.58 |
Overwaitea | $9.62 |
London Drugs | $9.62 |
Wal Mart | $9.63 |
Safeway | $10.54 |
Peoples | $10.58 |
Shoppers Drug Mart/Pharmaprix | $10.72 |
Pharmasave | $10.86 |
Average | $9.51 |
Maximum | $10.86 |
Minimum | $4.46 |
Median | $9.62 |


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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica Endangered by Wayward Environmentalists
Few of man's achievements honor nature as much as golf courses do, and it is always remarkable to see wayward environmentalists trying to replace golf courses with what is called "managed wilderness", i.e. pet projects of alleged nature do-gooders which serve virtually no useful purpose other than to inflate the self-serving moralistic egos of those same wayward environmentalists.
Those same people should be attacking the big multi-national corporations who are devastating the planet by things like fracking. But that might be a bit tough for these environmentalists to handle.
It is much easier to go after golfers and golf courses, who are bothering no one, and causing no harm to nature. Quite the contrary, many a golf course has "reclaimed" land otherwise not particularly well used as a matter of nature.
See the battle under way for the Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica in an article by John Upton at Golfers Promise a Fight on Sharp Park - The Bay Citizen.
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Reservation Policies for The Resort at Longboat Key ClubGuarantee Policy: A deposit in the amount of 2 nights room and tax will be taken at the time of reservation, for one night stays this deposit will be for that night's room and tax. Cancellation Policy: For arrivals between December 15th and April 30th cancellations must be received 14 days prior to arrival, from May 1st - December 14th cancellations must be received 7 days prior to arrival to avoid forfeiture of deposit. Cancellation policy for groups is per the contract. Terms & Conditions: We reserve the right to cancel or modify reservations where it appears that a customer has engaged in fraudulent or inappropriate activity or under other circumstances where it appears that the rates or details of the reservation contains or resulted from a mistake or error. Advance reservations for Dining, Spa and Golf must be made directly with each outlet after confirming your Room Package Reservation. All packages exclude taxes, resort fee and gratuities. The Longboat Key Club & Resort is a non-smoking Resort. Smoking is allowed in designated areas only. Check-in: 4pm - For your security, a photo ID is required upon check-in to verify your reservation. Check-out: 11am Family plan - Children 16 and younger stay for free when accompanied by an adult. Pet policy - Pets are not allowed at the resort. Rollaway Beds are available upon request at $30 USD per day Rates are subject to change. All reservations subject to a $24 per day Resort Fee ($36 on all two bedroom suites). Group Resort Fee is per the group contract. The daily resort fee entitles you to:
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Republican and Conservative Youth Also Unsure of State Voting Laws; Policy Views Not Fully in Alignment with Republican Platform
Poll Findings Related to Republican and Conservative Youth, 18-29
A common stereotype about young Americans is that they are predominantly liberal in their political identification. A national survey of 18 to 29-year-olds commissioned by the Youth Engagement Fund and analyzed by CIRCLE shows that of 1,695 respondents 25% identified as Republican. When asked about ideological orientation, 27% they were along the conservative spectrum choosing either slightly conservative, conservative, or extremely conservative as an answer.
Given Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as a running mate, we thought it would be interesting to look at Republican and conservative youth from the recent national poll analyzed by CIRCLE. While this poll was fielded prior to the Ryan pick, there may be some interesting insights to be gained about how these 18-29 year olds might lean moving forward.
Racial Composition
Compared to young people as a whole, Republican youth are more likely to be White, non-Hispanic (87%). Hispanic youth made up 7% of youth who identify as Republican. However, youth of color are more likely to identify as conservative (25%) than as Republican (12%). This difference between party and ideology can be seen clearly in support for the two presidential candidates – Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Candidate Support
When asked if the election were held today who would you vote for, 85% of Republican youth indicated that they "would definitely vote for" (44%) or "might vote for" (42%) Mitt Romney. However, Mitt Romney performs somewhat less well among conservatives, with 71.5% of conservative-leaning young Americans saying they will support him. See the graph below for the differences between these groups' support for Romney. The difference is likely the result of higher numbers of youth of color who identify as conservative.
When asked about a range of candidate characteristics, such as "will get things done," or "has the right experience to be president" or "shares your values," Republican and conservative leaning youth overwhelmingly indicated that they thought Mitt Romney had more of these qualities than Barack Obama. Again, conservative youth were about 10 percentage points lower in these assessments.
When asked about why they would vote, almost three quarters of the respondents indicated that the "felt the election was really important" or they "want change."
Voter ID Laws
The poll asked respondents a series of questions related to voter ID laws and voter registration rules in their state. Over half, and in some cases two thirds to three fourths of young Republicans and conservatives either were unsure about the laws in their state or were incorrect in their understanding of voting laws and requirements. This is consistent with other demographic groups, indicating an information gap amongst young voters and potential voters.
Issue and Policy Orientation
In terms of issues, Republican and conservative youth are pretty much in alignment in seeing jobs and the economy as their number one issue. Republican-identifying youth are slightly more likely to think this is a concern (33%) compared to conservative identifying youth (25%). The federal budget deficit and cost of college and student loans are also strong concerns for these sub groups. To the youth who identify as Republicans, terrorism and homeland security is of much higher concern, whereas conservative-identified respondents were more likely to be concerned with immigration.
Which one of these would you most like politicians to do something about? | Youth who identify as Republican | Youth who identify as Conservative | All Youth in Poll |
Jobs and economy
33% | 24.9% | 33% |
Federal budget deficit
17.9% | 20.9% | 10.5% |
The cost of college and student loans | 11.2% | 12% | 11.4% |
Taxes | 6% | 6.5% | 3.8% |
Terrorism and homeland security | 5.5% | 3.8% | 2% |
Social security and retirement
5.2% | 5.6% | 2.9% |
Health care | 5.2% | 5.6% | 9.2% |
Gas prices
4.2% | 5.1% | 4.8% |
3.7% | 6.9% | 4.1% |
Violence and drugs | 3% | 2.2% | 2.8% |
Quality of education | 1.7% | 2% | 5.3% |
Gay rights | 1.5% | 2.4% | 3.6% |
Environment and climate change | 1.2% | 0.7% | 2.5% |
0.7% | 1.3% | 1.1% |
Republican and conservative youth are not necessarily predictable in their responses to all the leading policy issues.
For instance, over half of respondents opposed laws geared towards legalizing same-sex marriage and health care reform. And, of those who opposed health care reform, over 90% indicated it was because it would give the government too much power. Twice as many of these youth saw spending cuts as the best way to grow business rather than investments in infrastructure. Depending on party affiliation or ideological leaning, this group was 5 to 7 times more likely than not to support laws that allowed police to verify the legal status of someone they have already stopped or arrested if they suspect that person is in the country illegally.
However, this group of respondents was much more split on immigration laws that would allow immigrants brought to the US as children to gain legal resident status if they joined the military or went to college. Here Republican and conservative youth were about a third in support, a third opposed and a third unsure. This same pattern was also replicated in their responses to whether or not they supported establishing a minimum tax rate of 30 percent on Americans making 1 million dollars a year or more (the Buffet Rule).
More data and analysis from this poll:
These are some of the results of a CIRCLE poll commissioned by the Youth Engagement Fund and conducted by Knowledge Networks. Knowledge Networks administers nationally representative surveys built on a random sample of households. Recruited households are given Internet access if needed. Between June 22 and July 2, 2012, Knowledge Networks surveyed 1,695 US citizens between the ages of 18 and 29. African Americans, Latinos, and individuals who have never attended college were oversampled, but unless otherwise noted, this press release reports nationally representative statistics. The survey was conducted in English and Spanish.
Find more analysis in our 2016 Election Center. For regular updates in your Inbox about youth and the 2016 election, sign up for CIRCLE's monthly E-Update here.


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New York, March 03, 2015 -- Moody's Investors Service has assigned a Baa1 rating to a tranche of senior unsecured notes being issued by Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (NYSE: MMC -- senior unsecured debt Baa1, commercial paper Prime-2). The company is issuing $500 million due in 2020 off its multi-purpose shelf registration. Net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes. The rating outlook for MMC is stable.
MMC has one of the two largest insurance brokerage and consulting operations worldwide, with four globally recognized brands: Marsh (insurance broking and risk management), Guy Carpenter (risk and reinsurance intermediary services), Mercer (talent, health, retirement and investment consulting) and Oliver Wyman (management consulting). MMC's ratings reflect its global market presence; diversification across clients, products and regions; and expertise in providing complex risk and human resource solutions, particularly to global and national accounts. These strengths are tempered by the challenges of slow economic growth in Continental Europe, price softening in certain business lines, notably reinsurance, and potential liabilities arising from errors and omissions, a risk inherent in professional services. Going forward, the credit profile may also be constrained by MMC's growing payments to shareholders.
MMC has steadily improved its EBITDA and net profit margins over the past several years through organic growth and fold-in acquisitions in attractive markets. Based on Moody's calculations (which incorporate standard accounting adjustments), MMC's debt-to-EBITDA ratio was 2.7x and its (EBITDA - capex) interest coverage was 6.6x for 2014. We expect metrics to stay at or close to these levels for the next 12-18 months.
Moody's cited the following factors that could lead to a rating upgrade for MMC: (i) debt-to-EBITDA ratio below 2.2x, (ii) (EBITDA - capex) coverage of interest above 8x, and (iii) net profit margin above 11%.
The rating agency added that the following factors could lead to a rating downgrade: (i) debt-to-EBITDA ratio above 3x, (ii) (EBITDA - capex) coverage of interest below 5x, or (iii) net profit margin below 8%.
The principal methodology used in this rating was Moody's Global Rating Methodology for Insurance Brokers & Service Companies published in February 2012. Please see the Credit Policy page on www.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.
Based in New York City, MMC is a global professional service firm providing advice and solutions in the areas of risk, strategy and human capital to clients in more than 130 countries. MMC reported total revenue of $13 billion and net income attributable to MMC of $1.5 billion for 2014. Total equity was $7.1 billion as of December 31, 2014.
For ratings issued on a program, series or category/class of debt, this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to each rating of a subsequently issued bond or note of the same series or category/class of debt or pursuant to a program for which the ratings are derived exclusively from existing ratings in accordance with Moody's rating practices. For ratings issued on a support provider, this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to the rating action on the support provider and in relation to each particular rating action for securities that derive their credit ratings from the support provider's credit rating. For provisional ratings, this announcement provides certain regulatory disclosures in relation to the provisional rating assigned, and in relation to a definitive rating that may be assigned subsequent to the final issuance of the debt, in each case where the transaction structure and terms have not changed prior to the assignment of the definitive rating in a manner that would have affected the rating. For further information please see the ratings tab on the issuer/entity page for the respective issuer on www.moodys.com.
For any affected securities or rated entities receiving direct credit support from the primary entity(ies) of this rating action, and whose ratings may change as a result of this rating action, the associated regulatory disclosures will be those of the guarantor entity. Exceptions to this approach exist for the following disclosures, if applicable to jurisdiction: Ancillary Services, Disclosure to rated entity, Disclosure from rated entity.
Regulatory disclosures contained in this press release apply to the credit rating and, if applicable, the related rating outlook or rating review.
Please see www.moodys.com for any updates on changes to the lead rating analyst and to the Moody's legal entity that has issued the rating.
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Comedian Paul Sinha harbours an obsession with trivia and quizzes, and is immensely proud to be ranked the UK's 22nd best quizzer.
At the European Quizzing Championships in Derby, he pits his skills against the Continent's finest, meeting the quizzing world's superstars, and asking why, unlike the UK, other parts of the world celebrate success in the field of knowledge as much as any sporting triumph.
Producer Monise Durrani.