Companies are investing heavily in space and that is reflected by new facilities, investment in technology, and the development of public/private partnerships. NASA’s approved fiscal year 2022 budget as passed in March is more than $24 billion and its programs are growing.
more than $50 billion in damage, billion with a b. it wasn t a one off freak event, the kind of disaster that will happen now again and again because of the carbon we put in the atmosphere and are continuing to put in. we are now entering the first stages of the disaster years. that s what they ll call it when the history books are written, the time the uncommon became common. just last week, noaa predicted a far more active than normal hurricane seasons with 13 to 20 named storms. last year they predicted 9 to 15 named storms and we got 19. when noaa explained their prediction for this year s extremely active hurricane seasons they cited warmer than average water temperatures in the tractor-trailer tropical ocean and leak sea. as you can see, as it climbed 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere the average number of named storms in the atlantic has shot up. they are getting longer and showing up earlier. between 1969 the average date of the first named storm was j