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Islanders and ecologists had not experienced an event like hurricane María, but that did not inhibit them from anticipating the potential effects of such a storm, and the importance of being prepared for when an event like María would happen. The effects of María nevertheless surprised everyone. They eye of María entered Puerto Rico as a category 4 and exited as a category 3 hurricane 12 h later, exposing the island to 24 h of hurricane effects. In addition, Puerto Rico was affected by the passage of hurricane Irma north of the island and by the effects of winter storm Riley that passed over the northeastern United States of America in March 2018.
I am a tyrant but I heed to Universal laws.
The first to transform a drop of ocean into a drop of rain.
I am a distillery of the skies.
Each time you see a cloud, you see the chemistry of my being.
I carry vapour from the ocean towards the heavens, so high the rotating earth empowers me.
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Humanity’s effects on the Earth are now so profound that a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – was declared to have begun in the 1950s by the International Geological Congress. The Anthropocene, or age of humans, replaces the Holocene, the age of glaciers.
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Lugo, A.E. (2019). Introduction. In: Social-Ecological-Technological Effects of Hurricane María on Puerto Rico. SpringerBriefs in Energy(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02387-4_1
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