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Death Wish Why the Gulf dead zone won't go away any time soon	Wayne Curtis	07 Aug 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Tuesday, 07 Aug 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. It's summertime in New Orleans. Time slows. Backyard gardens demand to be weeded near ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Hurricane update They might be coming sooner than you think	Andrew Dessler	01 Aug 2007	Gristmill
From a NASA's Earth Observatory: Hurricanes need two basic ingredients to develop: warm, moist air and a relatively calm atmosphere. Late summer over the Atlantic Ocean provides both things. Ocean waters above about 27 degrees Celsius (80 Fahrenheit) give rise to the warm, moist air that fuels tropical storms, and winds that could tear a storm apart are light during the summer. Typically, the Atlantic is primed for hurricanes by early August, and the height of the ...
Topics: climate, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

Thames Fugit England walloped by historic floods		23 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Thames Fugit England walloped by historic floods It's a "summer of suffering" in England, as severe flooding wreaks havoc across the country. This weekend, floods in the central and southern part of the country left more than 350,000 people without drinking water and forced the evacuation of hundreds from their homes. The worst part, observers say, is that the waters are still rising -- and a ...
Topics: climate, England, news, placemaking, severe weather (all these topics)

All Kinds of Sickening Congress grills FEMA on toxic post-hurricane trailers		20 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
All Kinds of Sickening Congress grills FEMA on toxic post-hurricane trailers The media have reported for at least two months that the trailers used to house refugees from hurricanes Katrina and Rita have been giving off fumes that are making some people sick. Now it seems the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has fended off those accusations, has known about the toxic trou ...
Topics: Congress, environmental justice, health, news, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

Whose Fault Is It, Anyway? Carmakers, nuclear plant halt operations after Japan quake		19 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Whose Fault Is It, Anyway? Carmakers, nuclear plant halt operations after Japan quake Aftershocks from Monday's earthquake in Japan continue to be felt -- and not the kind that shake the ground. Yesterday, officials ordered the nuclear plant that was damaged in the quake to shut down indefinitely while operators assess and fix some 53 problems discovered over the course of the last fe ...
Topics: electricity grid, energy, Japan, news, nuclear power, severe weather (all these topics)

A Barrel of Gaffes Earthquake causes nuclear headaches in Japan		17 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
A Barrel of Gaffes Earthquake causes nuclear headaches in Japan A strong earthquake hit northwestern Japan yesterday morning, and aftershocks continued into the night. The 6.8-magnitude quake killed at least nine people, injured more than 900 others, and flattened houses and highways. It also led to a fire, leak, and waste spills at a powerful nuclear plant. The Kashiwazaki Kariwa facility, which produc ...
Topics: energy, Japan, news, nuclear power, severe weather (all these topics)

Storm World: Understanding hurricanes today New book on hurricanes and global warming	Kit Stolz	16 Jul 2007	Gristmill
On his site, science writer Chris Mooney recently posted a fascinating pair of graphs, courtesy of collaborator Matt Nisbet, which chart public interest in global warming. As the years march by, the charts show what happens when scientific reports are released, when politics intervene -- and when hurricanes strike, as measured by coverage at the Washington Post and the New York Times. What the graphs show is that in these thoughtful newspapers, political and sci ...
Topics: books, climate, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

Leo, I've Got a Feeling We're Not in Hollywood Anymore DiCaprio-produced series will rebuild tornado-ravaged Kansas town		16 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Leo, I've Got a Feeling We're Not in Hollywood Anymore DiCaprio-produced series will rebuild tornado-ravaged Kansas town It's official: Nine months after the rumors began, Leonardo DiCaprio has confirmed that he and a partner will give birth to ... a reality series on green building. DiCaprio will executive produce the 13-part Eco-Town on the Discove ...
Topics: celebrity, green living, Kansas, Leonardo DiCaprio, news, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning (all these topics)

A river runs through it Literally	Kate Sheppard	13 Jul 2007	Gristmill
The International Rivers Network has a new study out, 'Before the Deluge: Coping with Floods in a Changing Climate,' which details the failures of flood control techniques like dams and levees and presents other options for areas that may face flooding from severe weather and rising shorelines. Turns out traditional flood control measures like embankments and dams can sometimes actually make flooding worse since they force rivers to run straighter and faster, making ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, severe weather (all these topics)

Black Coffeyville Oil spill adds agitation to tri-state flooding		03 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Black Coffeyville Oil spill adds agitation to tri-state flooding A 42,000-gallon oil spill in Kansas is complicating state and federal response to flooding that has walloped that state, Oklahoma, and Texas. Weeks of rain have forced evacuations and caused at least 11 deaths. On Sunday, workers at a Coffeyville, Kan., oil refinery began evacuation procedures, but a malfunction sent bla ...
Topics: Kansas, news, oil, Oklahoma, severe weather, Texas, water pollution (all these topics)

It Was Sunny in Seattle Global weather is bad and likely to get worse		28 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
It Was Sunny in Seattle Global weather is bad and likely to get worse Within the last week, excessive heat -- think 113 degrees Fahrenheit -- has killed dozens of people in Greece, Romania, and Turkey. Storms killed some 150 people in India and about 220 people in Pakistan. Britain has been deluged by flooding. We like to think of these severe weather incidents as coincidental, but some crazies claim they're ...
Topics: climate, news, severe weather, United Nations (all these topics)

The Tahoe Blues Blaze rages around Lake Tahoe; blame game begins in earnest		27 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
The Tahoe Blues Blaze rages around Lake Tahoe; blame game begins in earnest What's to blame for the raging fire that has burned more than 200 homes near California's South Lake Tahoe? Try the homogenous stands of white fir planted post-clear-cut by 20th-century miners. Or was it this year's low-snow winter and current drought? Perhaps criticism should be leveled at homeowners who failed to clear brush and o ...
Topics: California, deforestation, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Barrier Methods Galveston, Texas, expected to approve history-defying development plans		26 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Barrier Methods Galveston, Texas, expected to approve history-defying development plans The city of Galveston perches precariously on a Texas barrier island; some 8,000 people were killed there by a hurricane in 1900. But hindsight shmindsight! Officials are set to OK construction of over 1,000 acres of hotels and homes, the largest development in city history. Geologists hired to study the issue have s ...
Topics: insanity, news, placemaking, severe weather, Texas (all these topics)

Drink Me A New Orleans transplant traces the source of his tap water	Wayne Curtis	26 Jun 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Tuesday, 26 Jun 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. I was hiding out from New Orleans' early summer heat in a Magazine Street bar ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Scarce Fell On Alabama Crops, neighborly relations suffer in Southeastern U.S. drought		19 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Scarce Fell On Alabama Crops, neighborly relations suffer in Southeastern U.S. drought A severe drought is gripping most of the Southeastern U.S., threatening crops, inspiring prayer, and turning neighbors against each other. "It's one of the worst droughts in living memory in the Southeast at this point," said Doug LeComte, a drought specialist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Western civilization? What a nice idea	James Dailey	15 Jun 2007	Gristmill
If Gandhi were around today, I think he would be less reasonable and tractable about the climate crisis; instead, he would challenge the moral integrity of so-called western civilization. The galvanizing march to the salt flats (the famous 'Salt March') would be a tour of threatened island nations: Inuit seeking redress for loss of habitat, mountain people facing bewildering change, deluges in Bangladesh, landslides in the Philippines, and masses of people in the Indus- ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, energy, environmental justice, severe weather (all these topics)

For those planning on growing a lot of biofuels Anyone got those cans of instant water? (Just add water)	JMG	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill
'A drought for the ages.
Topics: climate, desertification, severe weather, water crisis (all these topics)

What if Hurricane Katrina had hit the Persian Gulf coast? Stormy weather ahead	Jon Rynn	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Well, we might find out, according to an exclusive from The Oil Drum and Chuck Watson of KAC/UCF, also using a weather blog, where Margie Kieper writes: An unusual event is happening over the next 48 hours, as the first tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds, and major hurricane-force winds at that, is approaching the Gulf of Oman, to strike the eastern coast of Oman, curve northward, and make landfall on the coast of Iran. In the tropical cyclone best tracks and th ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, oil, severe weather (all these topics)

2006: Second most extreme weather ever And yet the media isn't reporting it	Joseph Romm	04 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Global warming has long been predicted to make the weather more extreme. Wouldn't it be great if there were an official government index of extreme weather -- of heat, drought, rainfall, and hurricanes -- that would let us know if the prediction had come true? Well, such an index exists: the National Climatic Data Center's Climate Extremes Index. As the figure shows, the most extreme year by far was 1998; 2006 was the second most extreme, followed closely by ...
Topics: climate, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

Postcard From the New Atlantis On moving to New Orleans, a city defined by water	Wayne Curtis	24 May 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Thursday, 24 May 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La Someone once wrote that eating a tomato grown on a fire escape dem ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Not On My Botch -- Uh, Watch Katrina refugees say FEMA trailers making them sick		17 May 2007	Daily Grist
Not On My Botch -- Uh, Watch Katrina refugees say FEMA trailers making them sick As states in the Southeastern U.S. brace for this year's hurricane season, new Federal Emergency Management Agency head David Paulison has a promise: "You won't see what happened with Katrina happen again in this country.'' Paulison assured a crowd of emergency responders in Florida that the &q ...
Topics: climate, environmental justice, green living, health, news, severe weather (all these topics)

Cloudy, With a Chance of Powers As Asian economies grow, increased pollution affecting world's weather		06 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Cloudy, With a Chance of Powers As Asian economies grow, increased pollution affecting world's weather Scientists say smog from Asia is drifting east, seeding storm clouds, and intensifying weather in the Pacific. On a typical spring or summer day, they say, nearly a third of the air high above the U.S. West Coast comes from Asia. And according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academ ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, news, severe weather, United States (all these topics)

Why do hurricanes matter? Policy-wise, that is	David Roberts	02 Feb 2007	Gristmill
As Andrew mentioned, the hurricane folks are saying that hurricanes are going to be the huge controversy when the IPCC report is released. Does climate change strengthen them? Yes? No? Kindamaybe with full takebacks? Does this consensus statement say we're 51% sure while this other one says 49%? Let me ask a simple question: what policy implications follow from this debate? What difference will a clear answer make? What policy would make sense in light of the pros ...
Topics: climate, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

The IPCC and hurricanes The former says nothing about the latter	David Roberts	06 Jan 2007	Gristmill
"We found that there is just no way that the observed changes [in hurricane strength] [in sea-surface temperatures] could be attributed purely to internally generated natural variability." (see correction at bottom of post) So said Tom Wigley -- one of many people at NCAR with more expertise and peer-reviewed papers in the area of hurricanes and climate change than Roger Pielke Jr., but far fewer media appearances -- when he and 18 other respected researche ...
Topics: climate, IPCC, severe weather (all these topics)

What's the link between hurricanes and global warming? Cleared up once and for all	Andrew Dessler	25 Oct 2006	Gristmill
The answer depends on the exact question you're asking. Here is my view of the scientific consensus on a range of questions: 1) Did global warming cause Katrina? Or Rita? Or any single storm? As far as I know, there exists not a single peer-reviewed article that connects global warming with the increased ferocity of any single storm. The commonly used dice analogy provides a good explanation of why the case is so hard to make. Assume the weather is determined by ...
Topics: climate, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

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