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Will Hurricane Irene Be a Wake-Up Call about Climate Change?

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Bill McKibben, Amy Goodman - Aug. 29 (Interview) - Hurricane Irene received a massive amount media coverage, but television reports made little or no reference to the role global warming played in the storm. We speak with someone with his eye on climate change and its impact. "We’ve had not only this extraordinary flooding, but on the same day that Hurricane Irene was coming down, Houston set its all-time temperature record, 109 degrees," says Bill McKibben, co-founder and director of 350.org.

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Implications of a Ten Day Refinery Outage

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Oil Drum - By Gail Tverberg - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - According to EIA data, gasoline inventories the week that Hurricane Gustav hit were the lowest that they had been since 2000, amounting to 187.9 million barrels, or about 21 days supply. Quite a bit of this inventory is needed just to keep the pipelines filled. EIA does not publish information as to how far inventories need to drop before we start seeing outages, but it is clear that we have now reached the point where shortages are developing.

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New Orleans dodges disaster

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Kathryn Jezer-Morton - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - In the post-Gustav news conferences, there will be handshakes and good cheer about a planning and evacuation job well done. Republican presidential candidate John McCain is no doubt relieved that he can now make a presidential-sounding statement of satisfaction about the proceedings, and maybe rub away some of the stink of the Bush administration's legacy of failure during Katrina.

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Janet Ritz: Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Jul. 01 (Opinion) - A new study by the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the National Center for Atmospheric Research has warned that the integrity of carbon and methane sequestering permafrost is threatened by the rapid retreat of Arctic Sea Ice.

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Blow-by-Blow: Blogging Hurricane Felix

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:50:58 -0700

Pajamas Media - By Brendan Loy - Sep. 03 (Opinion) - with a Category 5 hurricane, flooding rains aren't the only problem; wind and storm surge are also a huge concern. If Felix makes landfall in Honduras, that country will bear the brunt of those impacts as well, but if it stays just offshore, then Belize could be in for a direct hit on Wednesday. The computer models are split on which scenario is more likely, with a slight trend toward a more southward track in recent model runs. The current NHC forecast track is on the "northern half of the guidance envelope," according to the discussion.

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Blame it on the rain

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:43:14 -0700

Sepia Mutiny - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - Monsoon rains come every year, but the flooding caused by this year's downpour has been some of the worst in decades for India, Bangladesh and Nepal. 19 million people have been displaced by the deluge. That's roughly the entire population of New York State, the 3rd largest state in the union, or around the entire population of Sri Lanka.

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