När ett snöoväder i helgen drog in över Texas frös nästan hälften av delstatens vindkraftverk fast. Detta resulterade i att delstatens sammanlagda uteffekt minskade. Det rapporterar National Wind Watch.
Det inte bara när det inte blåser som vindkraften slutar leverera el. I Texas i USA togs befolkningen på sängen då de för några dagar sen vaknade upp till en snöstorm och nästan 20 minusgrader. Mer än två miljoner hushåll och företag drabbades av strömavbrott på grund av de fastfrusna vindkraftverken vars kombinerade effekt ligger på 12 000 megawatt.
The family of an 11-year-old boy from Texas who froze to death after the family’s mobile home lost power during cold weather are suing the electricity companies involved to the tune of $100 million.
Cristian Pavon Pineda, 11, was found dead in his bed next to his younger brother Tuesday as temperatures plummeted into single digits and the family were unable to keep warm.
The lawsuit places the blame squarely at the region’s utility companies, Power grid operator ERCOT and electricity provider Entergy, holding them responsible for the tragedy.
Kerry: The world has nine years to avoid climate catastrophe.
John Kerry, the White House’s special envoy on climate, warned Friday that the U.S. only has less than a decade left to avoid the worst of a climate catastrophe.
“Around 2030 is the date at which we have to get the world now on the right path in order to cap the level of warming at that level of 1.5 [degrees celsius],” he said at a Munich Security Conference.
Bli med og spleis til annonser på Facebook så flere får vite sannheten om klima som blir kaldere. Alle beløp hjelper. Eva (bestemor) tar seg av annonseringen.
Med været som er nå bør flere få vite sannheten om hva som skjer i en Mini-Istid. Vi kjører videre med spleisen til ekstra annonser i helgene på Facebook så flere får vite sannheten om klima som blir kaldere. Takker dere som bidro forrige helg. Men vi trenger flere. Presse og media kjører på med klimaskremsler døgnet rundt.
Texas’ power grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months, officials with the entity that operates the grid said Thursday.
As millions of customers throughout the state begin to have power restored after days of massive blackouts, officials with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, which operates the power grid that covers most of the state, said Texas was dangerously close to a worst-case scenario: uncontrolled blackouts across the state.
The quick decision that grid operators made in the early hours of Monday morning to begin what was intended to be rolling blackouts — but lasted days for millions of Texans — occurred because operators were seeing warning signs that massive amounts of energy supply was dropping off the grid.
Bli med og spleis til annonser på Facebook så flere får vite sannheten om klima som blir kaldere. Alle beløp hjelper. Eva (bestemor) tar seg av annonseringen.
An exceptionally rare and long-lasting snowstorm battered Attica this week–the historical region that encompasses Greece’s capital city Athens and the surrounding countryside projecting into the Aegean Sea.
While winter snowfall may be commonplace across Greece’s higher elevations, it is much rarer in and around the nation’s capital.
On Feb. 16, snowfall of 20-25 cm (8-10 inches) settled in Athens — accumulations that resulted in power cuts, traffic chaos, and the effective shut down of the city, as reported by greekcitytimes.com.
Bli med og spleis til annonser på Facebook så flere får vite sannheten om klima som blir kaldere. Alle beløp hjelper. Eva (bestemor) tar seg av annonseringen.
Tre dager uten strøm og vann. Tyve minus. Butikkene er i ferd med å gå tomme for varer. Neste gang kan det vare i flere uker. Er dere klar for det? Dere har ikke aning om hvordan Mini-Istiden vil påvirke dere. Det visste de ikke under forrige Mini-Istid heller. Millioner frøs og sultet i hjel. Men nå burde dere vite bedre og forbereder dere. Tror jeg dessverre tar feil om det. Derfor holder jeg på med denne siden så kanskje flere av dere forbereder seg.
Bli med og spleis til annonser på Facebook så flere får vite sannheten om klima som blir kaldere. Alle beløp hjelper. Eva (bestemor) tar seg av annonseringen.
Rare and heavy snow has buried parts of Libya, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia (among others) of late, blocking roads and closing schools and businesses.
This week’s disruptive Arctic freeze isn’t just confined to the North America –where on Monday a staggering 79% of the U.S. was below freezing– no, polar cold is engulfing a large portion of the northern hemisphere, including central/eastern Europe, northern/western Asia, north Africa, and the Middle East, and it has succeeded in driving Earth’s temperature below the 1979-2000 average.
As reported by africanews.com, Libya saw its first snowfall in 15 years on Tuesday — the Green Mountain in the northeast if the county was veiled white as snow settled in the area for the first time since 2006:
Vi kjører videre med spleisen til ekstra annonser i helgene på Facebook så flere får vite sannheten om klima som blir kaldere. Takker dere som bidro forrige helg. Desverre kan jeg telle dere på en hånd. Det er skuffende lite.
Alle beløp hjelper. Eva (bestemor) tar seg av annonseringen.
Green Folly: Berlin’s City E-Buses Leave Passengers Out In The Cold…Diesel Buses To The Rescue.
The Berliner Morgenpost reported some of the green electric buses operated by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) had been taken out service due to range problems in the extremely cold weather. Up to 23 electric buses had to be replaced by diesel-powered buses last Monday. Ultimately the German capital plans to convert its entire fleet to electric by 2030.
