[✔️] August 14, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*August 14, 2022*/

/[  CNBC tells us why... in video report https://youtu.be/OR6RuSTcdHE ]
/*Why Power Outages Are Getting Worse In The U.S.
*Aug 12, 2022  The average American experienced just over eight hours of 
power outages in 2020. The overall duration of power interruptions in 
the U.S. more than doubled over the past 5 years. Beyond just 
inconvenience, blackouts cost the U.S. an estimated $150 billion every 
year. They can also be fatal, as most recently seen during the 2021 
outage in Texas. So why is the U.S. power grid so unreliable and can it 
be fixed?

Despite the Biden administration’s effort to improve the situation, 
recent actions would suggest the federal government lacks the ability to 
enforce a grid modernization.

There were a total of 549 policy and deployment actions on grid 
modernization during the second quarter of 2022, but of the $12.86 
billion in investment under consideration, regulators only approved 
$478.7 million, according to the NC Clean Energy Technology Center.

“Electricity systems are an area of shared federal and state 
jurisdictions,” according to Romany Webb, senior fellow at the Sabin 
Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. “The fact that we 
have this split authority between the federal government and the states 
is one of the factors that contributes to the complexity of the sort of 
modernizing the grid and building out additional infrastructure.”

What’s more, certain state and regional regulators often have political 
incentives to fight against changes to the power grid.

“The state entities that regulate electric utilities are called state 
public utility commissions,” said Webb. “In some states, those 
commissioners are elected. So if we’re talking about making investments 
that are going to be really expensive and are going to be increasing 
electricity bills, they might see a lot of pushback from customers about 
that and that might affect [the commissioners’] chances of reelection.”

Those directly affected by grid-modernization efforts say there are 
valid reasons to fight against such disruptive projects.

“We’re not opposed to solar, but it does not belong on farmland. It 
doesn’t belong in an agriculturally zoned area and it certainly does not 
belong on timberland,” said Susan Ralston, president of Citizens for 
Responsible Solar. “These projects are very destructive to the land and 
at the end of the day, we’re trying to do what’s right by our county. 
We’re trying to preserve the rural nature of our country and really 
convince our elected officials that the rural character is more 
important than caving into developers.”

Watch the video to find out more about why the U.S. power grid has 
become unreliable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR6RuSTcdHE/
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/[from Aljazeera text and video ]/
*Europe’s heatwaves, droughts put focus on climate change risks*
Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, France, the Netherlands and the United 
Kingdom are enduring severe droughts this summer.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/13/europes-heatwaves-droughts-put-focus-on-climate-change-risks

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/[ Vegas flooded - various videos assembled ]/
*Las Vegas is flooded again! The second heavy rainstorm in two weeks!*
Aug 12, 2022  Las Vegas suffered overnight floods, with rainwater 
pouring through the ceilings of the casinos. This flood occurred for the 
second time in two weeks. In Las Vegas, Nevada, floodwaters have 
overtaken the whole Strip and countless casinos. On Thursday night, the 
Las Vegas Strip, which is home to some of the most well-known casinos 
and hotels in the world, was absolutely crowded. Rainwater has soaked 
the casino ceilings again!
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/[  A DW news video report ]/
*Drought disrupts cargo traffic on Germany's Rhine River | DW News*
Aug 13, 2022  A summer of record-breaking heat is drying up rivers 
across Europe as around half of the continent faces an unprecedented 
drought.
In the UK, the driest July in over 80 years has largely evaporated the 
source of the River Thames. Italy's longest waterway, the River Po, has 
sunk to record lows, threatening food production. And in Germany, low 
water levels in the Rhine are threatening to make boat passage 
impossible, cutting off a major shipping route. Scientists have warned 
that climate change means extreme heat and drought will be more common 
in the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H54N1M4pPMM



/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*August 14, 2015*/
August 14, 2015:
Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson falsely claims that "we 
currently do not have feasible policy responses that are adequate" to 
meet the challenge of human-caused climate change "even if we had far 
greater political will," ignoring the fact that there were plenty of 
policy solutions that were rejected by his former employer, President 
George W. Bush, as well as a right-wing US House of Representatives and 
Senate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-need-a-miracle-on-climate-change/2015/08/13/fd44a7b0-41d8-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html


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