More that that the conspiracy theory crowd is lying to them that the meteorologists are controlling the weather.
What people actually have are vests filled with ice. Knew a couple of people who were canvassing in the Arizona heat wearing them.
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Oregon’s data centers want a lot more electricity. Who’s going to pay? It could be you
(www.oregonlive.com)
That's an inherent problem in any capitalist economy; competitive pressures mean that the owners are always trying to push down wages as much as possible. Without unionization (and few of the clean energy companies are unionized) there's very little to resist it.
There are a fair number which won't; "mobile" homes are not designed to the same durability standard that a permanent home is. That's reasonable for an RV that actually needs to move from location to location, but means you're taking significant added risk for one which sits forever in one place.
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Washington State’s older forests capture carbon better than nearly any other
(www.seattletimes.com)
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The problem here isn't that models are wrong or inadequate, but that FEMA, for political reasons, has based its maps and risk estimates on historical averages, and those don't adequately capture the change we've had, or relatively low-probability events.
Sure you can. It's a matter of using modeling to estimate its probability and then planning around it. Californians have done a planning exercise around a storm somewhat worse than the 1860-1861 storm sequence for exactly this kind of reason.
For sure, but it could be slightly less dire if a lot of states were able to somehow implement climate policy despite a Trump administration effort to maximize fossil fuel extraction and consumption.
Every country needs to go to zero emissions, and Brazil is big enough to matter. Its fossil fuel use has been modest, but deforestion can tip the Amazon from a rain forest into a dry savanna, killing off all the trees, and releasing the carbon they presently sequester.
By the time people like you and I are totally sick of a topic, it's just starting to break through into mainstream consciousness.
The retired general isn't selling a book; Bob Woodward, the journalist who helped expose Watergate decades ago, interviewed him and is selling a book.
The retired general who said this isn't making a profit; Bob Woodward, the journalist, is the one selling the book, not the general.
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I don't see how that gets through Congress, whereas something more like this (but with much larger amounts of capital injection) has a better chance.