News & Updates
This nice review just in, from the Denver Post: https://www.denverpost.com/books/ci_18571004
U.S. LAND IN FLOOD PLAINS COULD INCREASE 45 PERCENT, STUDY SAYS The amount of U.S. land located within flood plain zones is expected to increase by 40 to 45 percent by the end of this century, according to a study of the impacts of climate change on the federal flood insurance program. The study, which will be released later this summer, projects that a widening threat of rising waters along ocean coastlines and in river valleys as a result of climate change — including rising seas, greater downpours and more intense coastal storms — could double the number of policies in the National…
New definition of bummer: on the hottest day of the year, no swimming in NYC thanks to … massive fail at sewage treatment plant in Harlem, which spewed raw sewage into water https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/nyregion/sewage-spill-renders-new-york-harbor-unfit.html?_r=2&hp
(Apologies for headline: this is a very worthy effort to overcome a deadly serious problem.) Gates Foundation Launches Effort to Reinvent the Toilet: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/safe-affordable-sanitation-110719.aspx
https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59384.html
https://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/391552/july-11-2011/anti-frack-attack?redirect=true
Yesterday, the New York Times ran my op-ed piece about drought, and how it could become a permanent condition in the Southwest. Have a look, and let me know what you think: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/opinion/sunday/17drought.html?ref=opinion
FLOODS, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis and other geological phenomena have left a trail of destruction during the first half of 2011. But this could be just the start to a remarkable year of bad weather. Next up: drought. In the South, 14 states are now baking in blast-furnace conditions — from Arizona, which is battling the largest wildfire in its history, to Florida, where fires have burned some 200,000 acres so far. Worse, drought, unlike earthquakes, hurricanes and other rapid-moving weather, could become a permanent condition in some regions. Climatologists call drought a “creeping disaster” because its effects are not felt…
Lots to do, water-wise. Check it out: https://www.cityofwaterday.org/
A Friday classic from Publisher’s Lunch: Talisman Energy USA has removed from circulation and its web site a two-year-old coloring book for kids that was distributed in Pennsylvania where the company is drilling for natural gas. The project attracted attention after a story in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette last month. It was mocked recently by Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey in the Congressional Record and then by television host Stephen Colbert. Spokeswoman Natalie Cox says, “I can’t stress this enough: It’s just a coloring book…. It was something you gave away at a county fair.” Called Talisman Terry’s Energy Adventure, the narrative…