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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>May</b></i></font></font><font
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home. Really?</b><br>
Just Have a Think<br>
May 21, 2023<br>
Solid state batteries? When will they ever actually arrive? Well,
according to a Florida based start up called Amptricity, they have
arrived already and they are available right now for delivery to
your home in 2023. So has this news caused Elon Musk to quake in
his entrepreneurial boots, or is the marketing hype getting a
little ahead of its skis? Lets take a look.<br>
AMPTRICITY WEBSITE <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amptricity.com/">https://www.amptricity.com/</a><br>
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website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justhaveathink.com">http://www.justhaveathink.com</a> <br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ The New Yorker has poetic insight ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>How to Quit Cars</b><br>
They crowd streets, belch carbon, bifurcate communities, and
destroy the urban fabric. Will we ever overcome our addiction?<br>
By Adam Gopnik<br>
May 15, 2023...<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">The grip of the car as a metaphor
for liberty is as firm as that of guns, if perhaps with
similarly destructive results. Consider the paranoia unleashed
when urban planners recently disseminated the benevolent idea of
the “fifteen-minute city.” The model is based on places such as
New York and Paris, where most goods, from groceries to
haircuts, can indeed be found within a fifteen-minute walk of
your home—in many New York neighborhoods, it’s closer to five,
and in some Paris neighborhoods closer to two. Yet its enemies
decried an anti-car conspiracy led by statists who wanted to
force citizens into tiny, concentration-camp-like areas from
which they would have no exit. The French academic Carlos
Moreno, the most recent proponent of the fifteen-minute ideal,
has had to deny being in any way anti-car. (He is anti-car, but
in a gentle, vehicle-reducing manner, not a vehicle-eliminating
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<p><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/22/carmageddon-daniel-knowles-book-review-paved-paradise-henry-grabar">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/22/carmageddon-daniel-knowles-book-review-paved-paradise-henry-grabar</a></font><br>
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<i>[ Inside Climate News ]</i><br>
<b>Water, Water Everywhere, Yet Local U.S. Planners Are Lowballing
Their Estimates</b><br>
A study finds that more than half of American communities are basing
their long-term preparations for coastal flooding on numbers that
underestimate future sea level rise.<br>
By Charlie Miller<br>
May 20, 2023<br>
Communities across the U.S. are underestimating future sea level
rise, according to a study published in Earth’s Future, a journal
from the American Geophysical Union. The study found that more than
half of the 54 surveyed locations in the U.S. underestimate the
upper end of future sea level rise, compared to regional projections
from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).<br>
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“Our goal was to understand how well scientific advances in
understanding sea-level rise are being incorporated into the local
assessment reports,” said lead author Andra Garner, assistant
professor at Rowan University in New Jersey. The answer in the
report? Not very well...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20052023/sea-level-rise-underestimates/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20052023/sea-level-rise-underestimates/</a><br>
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<i>[ Here's the research paper ]</i><br>
<b>Evaluating Knowledge Gaps in Sea-Level Rise Assessments From the
United States</b><br>
Andra J. Garner, Sarah E. Sosa, Fangyi Tan, Christabel Wan Jie Tan,
Gregory G. Garner, Benjamin P. Horton<br>
First published: 23 January 2023
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003187">https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003187</a><br>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
<blockquote>There have been many scientific advances regarding
future sea-level projections, however it is unclear if these have
been transferred to assessment reports used by stakeholders. Here,
we present a first-of-its-kind comprehensive analysis of regional
sea-level rise (SLR) assessments for the United States (U.S.). We
identify variations in time horizons over which regions plan for
SLR, with 25 projections from the U.S. Northeast and West that
extend to 2150 or beyond, but no projections from the U.S. South
beyond 2100. The majority of 2100 projections from the U.S.
Northeast (77%) and West (83%) include ranges of future SLR, while
88% of projections from the U.S. South include only single
estimates. At least 56% of U.S. communities in the database
underestimate the upper end of future SLR compared to the regional
projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth
Assessment Report.<br>
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<b>Key Points</b><br>
More than half of communities in the United States (U.S.)
underestimate the upper end of future sea-level rise (SLR) compared
to projections from the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change report<br>
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There are no long-term (beyond 2100) projections of SLR from
assessment reports in the U.S. South<br>
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Most projections from the U.S. Northeast and West use ranges of SLR;
projections from the U.S. South often use single estimates<br>
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<b>Plain Language Summary</b><br>
It is unknown if scientific advances are readily incorporated into
local SLR assessments used by the public for decision making. To
better understand where knowledge gaps exist in SLR assessments, we
construct and analyze a database of the most recent local
assessments for the United States (U.S.). We find differences in
assessments among regions, including the time horizons used for
future projections, and varying preferences for single values of SLR
versus ranges that better capture uncertainty. Over half of U.S.
communities included in our analysis underestimate the high end of
future SLR compared to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Sixth Assessment Report...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF003187">https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EF003187</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ The news archive - looking back at a
powerful tornado ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>May 22, 2011 </b></i></font><br>
May 22, 2011: 158 people are killed after a severe tornado in
Joplin, Missouri.<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">Joplin, a city of about 49,000 people,
sits at the edge of the Ozark Mountain region.<br>
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Mr. Bettes, the meteorologist, said that the storm that hit
Joplin had been hard to read — which was why his crew was
willing to travel so close to it. “It was a rain-wrapped
tornado,” he said. “When it is obscured by rain, you can’t
tell what the danger is.”<br>
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One Joplin resident, Donald Davis, described to The
Springfield News-Leader driving through the city, saying that
Joplin High School’s windows were broken out and part of its
roof was missing. A church across the street was demolished,
he said. He also described damage to a grocery store and a
large apartment building.<br>
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“They’re flattened,” Mr. Davis said. “You just can’t believe
it. There must have been 150 units. One lady had a bathrobe
around her. Others just had blankets around them.”<br>
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The scene at St. John’s hospital was equally overwhelming. “I
spoke to a couple of nurses who were on the sixth floor,” said
Mike Jenkins, a senior producer at Weather Channel who was
with Mr. Bettes at the hospital. “They told me they received a
warning, that a tornado or possible tornado was 20 minutes
away. They took their precaution, ran through their steps, and
five minutes later the windows were blown out, people were
blown across the hall.”<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/us/23tornado.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/us/23tornado.html?_r=0</a>
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