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Weather Extremes!
I dont trust the New York Times but at least this article didnt mention "man made global warming" or "man made climate change". It does mention climate change but i can accept that by itself after all if one thing history can teach us, it is that the climate does change.
Simple things like this could leave us without power for days when the weather is hot and local creeks are running low. Do you have power and water figured out? Do your neighbors?
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On a single day this month here, a US Airways regional jet became stuck in asphalt that had softened in 100-degree temperatures, and a subway train derailed after the heat stretched the track so far that it kinked
I dont trust the New York Times but at least this article didnt mention "man made global warming" or "man made climate change". It does mention climate change but i can accept that by itself after all if one thing history can teach us, it is that the climate does change.
Excessive warmth and dryness are threatening other parts of the grid as well. In the Chicago area, a twin-unit nuclear plant had to get special permission to keep operating this month because the pond it uses for cooling water rose to 102 degrees; its license to operate allows it to go only to 100. According to the Midwest Independent System Operator, the grid operator for the region, a different power plant had had to shut because the body of water from which it draws its cooling water had dropped so low that the intake pipe became high and dry; another had to cut back generation because cooling water was too warm.
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On a single day this month here, a US Airways regional jet became stuck in asphalt that had softened in 100-degree temperatures, and a subway train derailed after the heat stretched the track so far that it kinked