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Category: Natural Hazards
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From the WaPo (Olive oil prices reach record highs as Spain’s harvest is halved): Extreme heat, wildfires and drought have decimated much of the world’s olive oil harvest yet again, driving prices to a record high of $9,000 per metric ton. Most home cooks aren’t buying olive oil by the ton. But retail olive oil…
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Feel free to promote far and wide. Intended for a non-expert audience (my goal is to get a spot in the sequel to this blockbuster). If you don't like QR codes, you can register here.
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From NPR on February 8th (Residents can return home after crews burned chemicals in derailed tanker cars): "About 50 cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash Friday night on the edge of East Palestine. Federal investigators say a mechanical issue with a rail car axle caused the derailment." The derailed cars…
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The US government did not shut down in FY 2023. That is immensely unremarkable… But, I had a social media memory pop up about the most recent shutdown in the US, so I'm going to write about them. It was the longest shutdown in US history: 35 days (December 22nd 2018 to January 25th 2019)…
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From FiveThirtyEight.com: On Tuesday, two things happened: A New England Journal of Medicine article by Harvard researchers argued that the death toll from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was most likely thousands higher than the official number of 64; and Roseanne Barr, the sitcom star, was fired for a racist Twitter rant. According to the…
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This is a tough one (Watching a ridge slide in slow motion …): The fissure was first spotted in October on Rattlesnake Ridge in south central Washington State, overlooking Interstate 82 and the Yakima River. Since then, a 20-acre chunk of mountainside — roughly four million cubic yards of rock, enough to fill 25 football stadiums to…
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I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the sky tumbling, a'tumbling down … (Quakes and Fires …): For the half-century after World War II, California represented the epitome of middle-class America on the move. As people poured into the state in search of good weather and the lure of single-family homes with…
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CNN may have just inadvertently started WWIII.
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When the Super Bowl comes to town hotels increase prices for rooms. Bars increase prices for drinks. Restaurants increase prices for food. So why when the Super Bowl of hurricanes comes to town would we expect anything less? When they checked rates online as Hurricane Harvey was strengthening and about to make landfall in…
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