Posted on 07/12/2013 10:34:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
The latest evidence that climate change is already causing massive damage
Extreme weather patterns spawned by global warming are a serious threat to the nation's energy infrastructure, according to a new report from the Department of Energy, and their destructive effects are already being felt nationwide.
"Increasing temperatures, decreasing water availability, more intense storm events, and sea level rise will each independently, and in some cases in combination, affect the ability of the United States to produce and transmit electricity from fossil, nuclear, and existing and emerging renewable energy sources," the report states.
In the most striking example, the report says climate change contributed to last year's powerful Hurricane Sandy, which ravaged the Northeast, closing ports, pipelines, and oil refineries, and knocking out power to some 8 million customers. And, the report warns, future storms will only get worse.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Worth repeating. Weather rules. Climate is secondary, global warming from CO2 is a very minor component of climate. Solar spectral changes are more important along with ocean circulation cycles. Those are responsible for patterns like the lack of strong hurricanes hitting us.
Eco-Porn.
More HupA science.
Statistically speaking, temperatures are flat since the trend is a lot less than the variations.
Your chart is way out of sync with the one I posted for the ten years the chart I posted represents.
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