After Hurricane Sandy shoved water into Con Edison's 14th street substation in October causing electricity to arc between capacitors about a quarter million customers were left in the dark.
It became an early brilliant symbol of the massive storm system's most pervasive and inescapable affront a total and lingering loss of power.
In 2011 Hurricane Irene cut electricity to about 5. 5 million homes. Tornadoes ice storms wildfires and drought now routinely overwhelm the nation's aging electrical infrastructure inflicting sweeping blackouts.
In the early 1990s the U s. experienced about 20 mass outages a year; today it's well over 100.
It also states that storm-related power failures cost the U s. economy between $20 billion and $55 billion annually.
Such infrastructure would be more resilient to both storms and terrorist attacks which the National Research Council warned in November could cripple entire regions of the country for months.
A single tree felled by a storm like Sandy can cut off power to thousands. The existing U s. electric grid has a linear structure.
and send it out to neighborhoods and individual homes. When a fault current or surge occurs anywhere along the line automatic circuit breakers open to halt it.
Florida Power and Light whose customers experienced multiple hurricanes in the early 2000s was among the first to do so.
In the ideal US grid all fossil fuel and wind/solar facilities would be replaced with 2500 nuke plants one to every 100k population.
http://spectrum. ieee. org/energy/the-smarter-grid/a-perfect-storm-of-planetary-proportionsif you think Ray`s story is super 1 week ago my cousins best friend basically recieved
In fact the only thing that separates Class 3 animals which are banned pretty much everywhere else is that a letter is sent to the hopeful leopard-owner's neighbors.
If 25 or more neighbors respond with a letter saying they are interested not in having a leopard on the block the leopard is allowed not.
Just because an animal is domestic does not mean it can't go nutty and attack a neighbor.
The GODS need to domesticate the local primates enable their communication skies instill them a high desire to gather greed with the imagination and intelligence to do so.
and I certainly don't want my neighbor to have a wildcat as a pet! Help Stop Fox and Coyote Hunt Pens.
She has gotten out in the neighborhood and always comes back. 2x). ) I do spend alot of time with them
or Metropolis...with the 1%living lavishly above the clouds and teh rest of us wasting away...
This is an erosion of living standards in my state that shouldn't be tolerated just because it is cheap.
and have discussed the idea at length with my neighbors. They see the care I give my property
Myself I see the benefits to the local ecosystem of having wolves present to keep the populations of other species in check.
I grew up being taken to Glacier and Yellowstone national parks as well as many museums and zoos and I have been a subscriber to National geographic for most of my life enjoying especially the articles about wildlife.
A given rancher may not have ANY death loss due to weather or domestic dogs or calving problems.
We Will Respond To The Threat Of Climate Change""President Obama vowed to tackle climate change in his second inaugural address today.
We will respond to the threat of climate change knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children
but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms.
This isn't the first time Obama has pledged to prioritize climate change. After winning reelection in November he conceded that he had limited success combating global warming in his first term
AGW/Climate change is fact. It's so easy to understand even a Faux viewer could understand it
when the sun is covered by a cloud? What happens at night? have given you any thought at all about the negative consequences of putting solar panels on every rooftop?
Most of the predictions of the GCMS (Global Climate Models) have failed especially the temperature trends.
Not that you will even be convinced by even continental glaciers coming back. You would blame even that on Climate Change.
A modern version of FDR's depression ending New deal building nuclear plants would solve the US energy needs in 15 years
or less. 2500 new mass produced nukes scattered around the US at $2500b financed by the $800b paid every year into the coffers of Big Oil/Coal for their deadly products would carry all US energy needs.
You ignore the fact that we'll see more dynamic weather as we'll have more energy in the system.
No one President via one or two terms can stop this train wreck of climate change cause from human industrial revolution.
and ever-growing population the industrial revolution will continue will march forward as well as climate change cause by CO2.
when methane is release upon the climate with is changes! I predicted gloom and doom with a chance of hope if you keep your religion close to your heart.
which will increase rain and that will increase the total land area suitable for farming. This is a POSITIVE consequence of a warmer globe but that's not what the proponent of the theory push.
You will also note what every climate scientists has observed: that CO2 saturation LAGS warming by hundreds of years.
Do you think that all those climate scientists are so smart and unbiased that their pronouncements don't need to be challenged?
All the rest of the so-called supporting evidence--glacier mass balance satellite telemetry sea-level data CO2 saturation of the atmosphere and oceans arctic minimum sea ice extent etc.
I would prefer a cleaner environment. It would be a positive if the Beijing cough would convince the Chinese that the environment can not sustain that much pollution.
President Obama is obviously a clever man and I admire his skills as a speaker but
what does he really know about the climate? laurenra7 Well done and said! Hu-RAY! Finally A pointless war where no soldiers and children have to die!
Climate change is of great concern to the Pentagon and the military. It ranks among our threats to national security.
There is NO debate for climate change. 97%of scientists agree. This is what is called a CONSENSUS
http://www. livescience. com/17340-agu-climate-sensitivity-nasa-hansen. htmlwhatever Frosty it's pretty obvious you wouldn't know the scientific method
They believe climate change and evolution are simply guesses or opinions because they don't understand what a scientific theory actually is.
If there is indeed a solar effect on climate it is manifested by changes in general circulation rather than in a direct temperature signal.
However few if any have been quantified to the point that we can definitively assess their impact on climate.
You think you find some smoking gun that says climate change is caused by something else
and you're too ignorant to know that weather is different than climate. Let me paint the picture:
%that's the percentage of the scientific community the people whose job it is to know agree on anthropenic climate change.
Clearly something catastrophic had occurred in Earth's cosmic neighborhood but whatever it was it apparently went undetected by the 350 million people living on our planet at the time:
First flares of the required magnitude would have sparked an unforgettable display of the northern lights but as mentioned no such phenomenon was recorded.
Scientists have identified already 11 such remnants in our Galactic neighborhood but none are the right age to have caused the 775 spike.
Shouldn't it be pretty easy for them to expose some 775 A d. soil in the neighborhood of their 3000 year old trees
and includes measurements from thousands of currently living forests as well as lots of long-dead trees that have been preserved in bogs and other decay-proof environments.
a cramped little lander with inflatable rooms on Mars will cost something in the neighborhood of $200 million.
Since the lunar environment has none of the resources needed for agriculture (except for sunlight) just how would this take some of the strain off earth's resources?
there neighbour has been doing this 4 only sixteen months and a short time ago repayed the dept on there cottage
Researchers might use the device to study honeybee ecology. TIME: 3 monthscost: $110mapping energy leaks in poorly insulated homes no longer requires hiring a technician.
One of the few good things about persistent cold weather is the excuse to drink hot chocolate.
#Climate Week 2014: The Wrap-Upas Climate Week NYC slips into the rearview mirror what can we take away?
Did anything you know happen? Yes...sort of. From the sci-tech perspective important energy and conservation agreements were announced.
So if you're into environmental conservation--particularly curbing climate change--these agreements are worthy of some renewed optimism.
32 national and 20 local or regional governments 40 companies 16 indigenous peoples groups and 49 nonprofits have pledged all cooperation to halve current rates of deforestation by 2020.
(although the government has stated it intends to cut deforestation roughly 25 percent by 2020). As part of the declaration Norway the U k. and Germany among others pledged $1 billion to developing countries such as Liberia and Peru for preserving forests.
As Popular Science reported live from the climate summit last week a coalition announced a new commitment to stop tropical forest and peatland loss related to the palm oil industry.
But the enormous demand also drives rampant deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia as growers clear land for palm oil plantations.
The move will likely put wind under the wings of the fledging international fossil fuel divestment movement
On September 23 several dozen heads of state including President Barack Obama came to the United nations for a one-day climate summit.
since 2009 that the U n. secretary general Ban Ki-moon had nestled a day full of climate change-centric programming into the yearly schedule of the U n. General assembly.
In 2009 official climate treaty talks were scheduled with the intention of producing a strong global climate treaty later that year--one featuring defined
But the Copenhagen talks were a flop leaving negotiators and climate activists flailing. Five years later many negative impacts of climate change have become even more visible worldwide as Popular Science often reports.
That fact helped get 300 to 400000 people (including many scientists and the people who love them) from around the country and the world onto the streets of New york city just a couple days before the climate summit on Sunday September 21.
They marched to demand climate change action and even the march's organizers claimed to be surprised by the heavy turnout.
Hundreds appeared again the next day September 22 for Flood Wall street using the tactics of the Occupy Wall street protests to keep media attention on climate change.
The science behind climate change is accepted well in most nations and the urgent need for action has been explained well to heads of state by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the U n.'s own climate science body).
So this latest unofficial climate summit was more about staking out positions on contentious issues ahead of official climate treaty negotiations that will occur over the next 14 months.
That process will culminate late next year in Paris at the 21st official U n. climate conference where a new international climate pact is supposed to be finalized.
Climate finance is one of the most challenging issues negotiators will try to resolve in the coming year.
A financial entity called the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has been set up to take in contributions from industrialized nations.
Richer emerging economies such as China and Mexico may end up contributing as well. The fund will distribute money to developing nations to help those countries pay for low
-or no-carbon economic development projects such as expanding their energy generation capacity with renewables like sun and wind instead of fossil fuels.
These types of projects fall under the buzzword mitigation. The GCF is intended also to help pay for resilience-related projects such as strengthening infrastructure to withstand global warming impacts like sea level rise--efforts that are termed adaptation.
#The Turbine Tweak That Could Save Battered Batscryan's research published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that certain species of tree-roosting bats are more likely to be killed by wind turbines
when the turbines spin slowly relative to the wind speeds around them. This led researchers to theorize that the wind currents around slow moving turbines may resemble those created by trees where the bats gather to roost
and hunt insects. We speculate that these are evolved behaviors that in trees and the bats basically can t tell the difference between wind turbines
and trees says Cryan the lead author of the study. Bats have been around for billions of years
It s a strategy that s already been undertaken at some wind farms where endangered bats have been found dead.
when the wind reaches 13 feet per second then increasing its cut-in threshold to16 feet per second has reduced fatalities.
#Live-Blogging The United nations Climate Summit In December 2015 world leaders are scheduled to negotiate the final touches in a new international treaty to cut greenhouse gas pollution save forests
and take other actions to curb climate change as well as deal with the impacts that can't be stopped.
If the agreement were based solely on the best climate science strong action would be a no-brainer.
So today I'm live blogging this special one-day climate summit organized by the Secretary general of the United nations Ban Ki moon. He hopes this event will help educate current world leaders-most have come into office
The needs and roles of women and girls in climate change action has been a major part of this panel's discussion.
and given how many direct impacts of climate change they are already taking on (changing agricultural patterns family health
and more) women need to be at every table where discussions about climate change are taking place
and decisions are being made--including the U n.'s climate treaty talks. In many parts of the world this means by default that women's health
and technologies that help us understand climate change inform climate policies and usually floated just below the surface.
Human ingenuity helped create climate change. Now that same force is trying to solve it. 6: 15 p m.:
whether there is a climate signal there. No more complicated or equivocating scientific statements that it could be related to climate change.
Farrow responds that no matter what people's eyes glaze over when news about climate change appears on their screens. 6: 37 p m. addendum:
I think this tweet from one of the organizer's of Sunday's climate action march meets Farrow's news media critiques. 6: 12 p m.:
Evo Morales president of Boliva has said not anything since making an opening statement at this panel.
That that will solve climate change? That's one of the solutions yes he answers.
Oke then tries to get the conversation back onto its main theme of practical responses to climate change. 6: 06 p m.:
since women are over half the world's population they need to be at the table in all decision-making about climate change prevention and resilience. 6: 04 p m.:
and found only three climate stories. He answers by blaming the structure of the web site rather than the direction of the network's news coverage.
Why haven't people been doing more to stop climate change? Ronan Farrow says to Ora Mostly the media is the problem here.
Sea level rise is making Taro Island increasingly vulnerable to tsunamis and storm surges. 5: 36 p m.:
The next and final panel Voices From the Climate Frontlines is underway. I first met and interviewed panelist Christina Ora a Solomon islands activist in 2009.
At that time she was a 17-year-old youth activist at the Copenhagen climate talks. She's here today still a climate activist now helping to coordinate community youth groups. 5: 15 p m.:
International climate events come with their own brand of intrigue. As The Washington post's Adam Taylor reported earlier today with so many national leaders attending today's climate summit in New york city the absences of Chinese President Xi Jinping
and Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi are glaring: In empirical terms it's hard to think of two more important leaders in the world right now:
Together they lead more than 2. 5 billion people more than a third of the world's population.
And the two countries are not only the first and second most populous countries On earth; research shows they also were the first-and third-biggest producers of carbon dioxide emissions (the United states holds the No. 2 spot...
Every study I have ever read makes it clear that developing countries have the most to lose from runaway climate change he said.
He says that his nation is already starting to drown because of sea level rise due to human-propelled climate change.
and preparation for climate change impacts like sea level rise and changing weather patterns. 4: 16 p m.:
IPCC scientists have learned how to communicate their findings on climate disruption its causes and what needs doing as a result in simple terms says Thomas Stocker.
On the question of how to be sure the best available climate science can be communicated effectively to educate
Climate scientist Thomas Stocker of the University of Bern Switzerland and member of the IPCC gives an impressively concise summary of the latest science about global warming.
and policy should interact to take effective action on climate change. Greenlanders live side by side with the largest glacier in the northern hemisphere she begins.
We're experiencing climate change now in our bodies our minds and our country every day. Weather in Greenlandic means sila.
Consciousness is called the same sila. Universe has the same name: sila. It says a lot about our holistic understanding of our environment Hammond says.
Science is helping Greenlanders see what's important and not important about climate change Hammond says
but the science is just proving what Greenlandic hunters have been seeing firsthand for a long time. Bird and whale migrations have been changing.
They're coming later then they used to. We knew from this that climate change was here before the term was introduced to us in English.
Climate change in Greenland is making it dangerous to walk on the ice where ice has been strongest beneath our feet says Hammond.
Hunting seasons are changing. The economy is changing. Our old cultures and traditions are also in danger.
The afternoon sessions at the U n. Climate Summit are starting including the one I've just sat in on:
how climate science can help inform good decision-making by governments. Nerd heaven. 2: 30 p m.:
President Obama made political points in this speech that the U s. will likely take into the next 14 months of international climate treaty negotiations:¢
and adaptation barrelhead via existing international aid and development programs as opposed to the Green Climate Fund.)¢
President Obama says he is instructing government agencies as of today to start factoring climate resilience into international aid and development efforts.
And a new effort to expand climate data and early warning systems for vulnerable nations to help them better plan for heavy weather and rising seas.
We recognize our role in creating this problem and our responsibility to combat it says Obama.
The climate is changing faster than our efforts to address it. The alarm bells keep ringing.
and the scientific knowledge to act on climate change right now says Obama. Today I am here personally as the leader of the world's largest economy
The Indonesian government and agri-giants Cargill Golden Agri Resources (GAR) Wilmar and Asian Agri are stating publicly at this climate summit that they're committed to stopping deforestation supplanting it with sustainable palm oil operations and getting the same
-and-climate news. Palm oil is Indonesia's single biggest economic sector helping to reduce the nation's intense poverty.
and peatland destruction ecosystems that would otherwise be storing much more carbon than the palm plantations that replace them.
Even Rajendra Pachauri the head of the U n.'s top climate science body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has to go through security to get into the building. 11:52 a m.:
What strikes me today is the mobilization of all actors to take action on climate change says president Francios Hollande of France-from governments to civil society organizations to the private sector.
Ban Ki moon thanks Hollande and France for committing $1 billion to the Green Climate Fund. 11:07 a m.:
or diminish attention on the damage they're doing to the environment. It's the kind of question a reporter asks to try
Last week just ahead of a big private sector climate forum held alongside today's political summit a group of powerful institutional investors issued a public call for a global price on carbon.
Lately some in the business community are getting more vocal that this measure--derided by opponents in the United states as a carbon taxis essential to cutting their financial exposure to risks of climate change like increasing drought storm damage strained fresh water supplies and such.
The UN has given over this shed-like space to the international press corps for the 2014 Climate Summit.
The screen features feeds from three simultaneous high-level sessions where world leaders are giving speeches about taking action on climate change.
and climate change. 9: 30 a m.:That's a pretty big deal. Full funding of the GCF by industrialized nations is crucial to getting a new climate treaty worked out for 2015.
As is always the case with money however some nations are holding back because they can't agree on how to spend
The president of Korea just pledged $100 million to the Green Climate Fund or GCF to help developing nations undertake low-carbon economic growth. 8: 44 a m.:
and climate change is already tangibly reducing food harvests. Can agriculture adapt to be both more productive and more resilient?
And in temperate climates Bioensure has been proven to increase output by 3 to 20 percent.
or twice in a millennium but the changing climate has made the danger much more imminent.
In order to understand the conditions that lead to these rare multi-decade dry periods researchers went into the field to study the traces that ancient weather patterns leave behind.
Plus climate models have predicted long the Southwest will lose water as the Earth warms and the prolonged drying period predicted for the coming years looks eerily similar to the periods that preceded the sustained dry periods of the past.
This pretty robust feature of climate change models loads the dice toward droughts and megadroughts Ault says.
Decade-long droughts came about once a century in the pre-climate change world. Today California and Arizona are parched.
and climate change but this drought points to what the whole Southwest may have to deal with
but various weather conditions helped the radioactive particles spread far into Western europe contaminating much of the ground soil.
and envelops fresh food in an antimicrobial cloud. The effect? Water loss and fungal growth are arrested significantly
and other environmental catastrophes make supplies scarce around the world. Where's the shortage? Brazil...
but climate change experts are predicting that over the course of the next decade warmer temperatures could impact coffee growers around the world leading to even more coffee shortfalls.
but with much of the world s breadbaskets in turmoil (environmental or political) your whole wheat toast could get more expensive.
Turkey which produces 70 percent of the world s hazelnut crop was hit hard by an unseasonable frost and hailstorms wiped out a huge portion of their supply;
It is impossible to escape a deep interest in the employees and their environment; in the systematic and effectual supervision of the material the supplies and the work and in the general progress that has been made.
The average annual rainfall varies strangely in different localities from 75 to 125 inches. The fog clouds and hot sun follow each other in quick succession.
The heavy rainfall insures permanent stagnant water where the larvae of the yellow fever and malarial mosquitos thrive in countless millions;
the perpetual moisture warmth and rich soil lead to extravagant growth of hundreds of varieties of tropical grasses plants flowers vines and trees furnishing favorable harbor for the insects;
tropical peoples depressed by climate and enervated by centuries of disease have not kept pace with the progress of the world
and utilize the motor power of the ocean waves and the trade winds. All due honor to the engineers.
and could also curb dairy farming's impacts on the environment such as emissions of methane a greenhouse gas from cow farts and decomposing manure.
which has seen growing popularity amongst humans--could also possibly help in reintroducing endangered animals back into their natural environment
The study was published this week in the journal Ecology Letters and authored by researcher Kevin Kohl and colleagues at the University of Utah
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