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For decades, an old municipal landfill in Fort Edward, New York, sat vacant. It is now covered with solar panels. Colston: “It… now powers 300 homes and 100 small businesses.” Annika Colston is the founder and CEO of AC Power, a company that converts former landfills into solar farms. Abandoned landfills need to be capped and then monitored for decades to ensure waste does not contaminate the air or groundwater. Colston: “So…there's a lot of ongoing care that goes into them.” …It’s an expense to the landowner. And it's difficult to redevelop a website for most commercial uses. Colston: “Decades…
from NoTricksZone Author: P. Gosselin The Committee on Food Security predicts that the weather in Western Europe will be somewhat cool and humid in October this year. Surface frost is already widespread. hat tip snow fan Chart: NOAA As shown in the figure above, the deviation of 2m air temperature from 1991-2020 from the globally valid WMO climate mean is expected to be around 0°C. Above average rainfall is expected. For Germany's higher altitudes, October can be snowy at times… Germany's natural gas storage facilities are nearly full at 96% ahead of Russia's third consecutive winter attack, which is a…
From Dr. Roy Spencer's Global Warming Blog Author: Dr. Roy W. Spencer Florida residents must feel like they've been hit by major hurricanes in recent years, but what does the data show? The problem with human perception of such things is that the time scales at which hurricane activity fluctuates tend to be longer than human experience. For example, people born in the 1950s will not remember that Florida was hit by major hurricanes (five in total) in the 1940s. But they have many memories of the hurricane lull of the 1970s and 1980s, when Florida experienced just one major…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned residents Monday to prepare to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton, even as crews continued to work to clean up the debris left by Hurricane Helene.As of Monday afternoon, Hurricane Milton was a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 175 mph. As the storm moves eastward, it is expected to strengthen and make landfall on Florida's west coast as a major hurricane on Wednesday. Forecasters warned that Tampa Bay could see a storm surge of 8 to 12 feet and said 5 to 10 inches of rain across mainland Florida and the Keys…
From the Daily Caller Irving KlinskyContributor European energy company BP has abandoned its pledge to cut oil and gas production by 2030, Reuters reported on Monday, as it aimed to boost investor confidence amid falling share prices. According to Reuters, BP unveiled plans in August 2020 to reduce oil and gas production by 40% by 2030, before lowering the target to 25% in February 2023. Now, in a bid to regain the trust of investors, Chief Executive Murray Auchincloss is backing away from that goal entirely, sources told Reuters as part of a broader shift in corporate strategy to focus…
California law firm Sher Edling received more than $3 million in unreported dark money to advance high-profile climate lawsuits on behalf of dozens of Democratic-led cities and states, according to a congressional report obtained Monday. washington free beacon. Reports from the Senate Commerce Committee and House Oversight Committee found that Schell Edlin received $2.9 million last year from the Accountability Collective Action Fund, a shadow group run by the New Venture Fund. Because the contributions were made in 2023, New Venture Fund, a Washington, D.C.-based dark money group, is not required to disclose the contributions until it files its next…
A California public university has officially launched a new curriculum update that will force all students to take at least one course on climate change. [emphasis, links added] Since the beginning of the fall semester, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has imposed a “climate change education requirement” for freshmen. The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) announced course updates in November. “Knowledge of climate change is required of all bachelor's degree candidates admitted to UC San Diego as first-year students in fall 2024 or later,” the school's website states. University of California, San Diego (UCSD) states The Jane…
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is approaching, and forecasters predict it will be active and potentially dangerous. … [emphasis, links added] Hurricane Helene hit Florida's Gulf Coast in late September, flooding the Southeast and causing devastating flooding in North Carolina's mountains. The following is Top 10 deadliest hurricanes on record in U.S. history, according to the National Weather Service. 10. The Last Island Hurricane (1856) Last Island hurricane kills 400 After striking the Louisiana coast in August 1856. In the aftermath of the storm, the island's highest point was submerged under five feet of water and the resort hotel and…
Michael O'Sullivan Ah, election season. During this holiday season, politicians suddenly have new ideas about how to make our lives better. This year, attention has been focused on our venerable American economy, which is currently in either good or bad shape, depending on who you ask. But it's election season, so voters have the final say and experts can surprise. That's why today we have Both Presidential candidates are proposing economic policies that have economists frowning and voters cheering. A recent Wall Street Journal poll of the economic policy ideas of both campaigns provides a good illustration of the wide…
The U.S. metropolitan area most vulnerable to storm surge damage is Tampa/St. Petersburg. According to a 2015 report by Karen Clark & Company, U.S. cities most vulnerable to storm surge flooding. Its once-in-a-century storm (1% chance of occurring in any year) is a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 mph (240 km/h). Such a storm hitting northern Tampa Bay is expected to cause $230 billion ($2,024) in damage from the storm surge alone. Tampa Bay is not frequently hit by hurricanes because the city faces the ocean to the west and the east-west trade winds prevail at that latitude,…