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The Really Big One
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.
The next full-margin rupture of the Cascadia subduction zone will spell the worst natural disaster in the history of the continent. When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa, at an international meeting on seismology. As the shaking started, everyone in the room began to laugh. Earthquakes are common in Japan—that one was the third of the week—and the participants were, after all, at a seismology conference. Then everyone in the room checked the time.
Anticipating the Unthinkable
Fairewinds Energy Education - NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) reports that in March of this year, Planet Earth broke the all-time high record on carbon dioxide concentrations at 400 parts-per-million, leaving the most optimistic limit of 350 in the distant dust. It is an ominous landmark, to say the least, and there are constant reminders that something big and unpleasant is transforming the world around us.
Report: US Energy Infrastructure a Sitting Duck
Common Dreams - New report from the Department of Energy shows the vulnerability the nation's energy system faces in a warming world. The nation's energy infrastructure is a sitting duck in the face of climate change.
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