If you want to help arrest global warming but are not sure about your best actions, then the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, offers a lengthy list of things to do. Over the next 10 years (2023-32), this breakthrough climate…
Heat Waves — In Red and Black
Heat Waves in Red & Black: Putin’s petrostate under kleptocratic ‘reiderstovo’
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Heat Waves — In Red & Black: PAYS to provide water like it’s a human right
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Heat Waves in Red & Black: Melting Glaciers involve more than rising sea levels
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Heat waves — in red & black | Danger zone: Will Greenland, West Antarctic ice sheets collapse?
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Climate scientists lose sleep over tipping points, temperature thresholds when crossed initiate self-sustaining, irreversible, and massively-destructive changes in natural systems, such as glaciers and forests. Countless living things will face untimely and unnatural deaths if these systems collapse. New…
Heat Waves in Red and Black: Energy companies would rather energize investors than consumers
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Ameren and MISO are playing politics with state regulations, slow walking Illinois into an electricity shortage Past columns revealed Exelon crippling the Illinois Renewable Portfolio Standard and thus contributing to Illinois’ electricity shortage. Additionally, Exelon supports its grid operator’s…
Heat Waves — In Red and Black | State of our electricity shortage
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Illinois once exported 40% of its electricity generation. Now, we must import electricity. Between 2007 and 2020, 44 Illinois coal plants closed (EIA) thus eliminating a sizeable fraction of our generation capacity. Another 12 coal plants may close by 2023.…
Heat Waves — In Red and Black | Forecast for rolling blackouts?
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The ultimate just-in-time commodity, supply and demand for electricity must be immediately and precisely balanced. If a supply deficit can’t be closed rapidly, grid operators order round-robin shutoffs across all customers, i.e. “rolling blackouts” lasting hours to days depending on…
Heat Waves — In Red and Black | Emergency Management hiding behind wall of voodoo statistics
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Heat Waves — In Red and Black | Illinois unprepared for killer heat
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Deadly heat gets no respect. Natural hazards that count — tornadoes, floods, etc. — are property-destroying traumas. Homeowners, public infrastructure, and insurance companies all take big hits. The Great Flood of 1993, for example, destroyed 24,000 Illinois homes and 884,000…