2008 To Be Warmest Year in a Century!
You thought is was hot this year? Just wait till next year! Triple digits will might be around longer than you think!
Global Warming could cause a shortage of electricity this year..
Predictions are not set in stone, but they are very concerned
Global warming is causing rivers and lakes to dry up - but these same rivers and lakes are what supply nuclear power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate,Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.
Of the nation's 104 nuclear reactors , 24 are in areas experiencing the most severe levels of drought. All but two are built on the shores of lakes and rivers and rely on submerged intake pipes to draw billions of gallons of water for use in cooling and condensing steam after it has turned the plants' turbine.
Because of the yearlong dry spell gripping the southeastern region, the water levels on the lakes and rivers in that area are getting close to the minimums set by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission . Over the next several months, the water could drop below the intake pipes altogether. Or the shallow water could become too hot under the sun to use as coolant.
And it would be costly for any shut-downs. Currently, nuclear power costs between $5 to $7 to produce a megawatt hour," said Daniele Seitz, an energy analyst with New York-based Dahlman Rose & Co. "It would cost 10 times that amount that if you had to buy replacement power - especially during the summer."
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Nuclear Power - we rely on it alot!
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Get some information you might not know about nuclear power.
- NRC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission - here's what it does
- Nuclear safety in the U.S.
- Learn about this amazing energy we make
- N.C. Waste Awareness and Reduction Network
- Coal or nuke power? What do you think?
Northeast Winters are Warming Fast
Earlier blooms. Less snow to shovel. Unseasonable warm spell.
A study of weather station data from across the Northeast from 1965 through 2005 found December-March temperatures increased by 2.5 degrees. Snowfall totals dropped by an average of 8.8 inches across the region over the same period, and the number of days with at least 1 inch of snow on the ground decreased by nine days on average.
" Winter is warming greater than any other season," said Elizabeth Burakowski, who analyzed data from dozens of stations for her master's thesis in collaboration with Cameron Wake, a professor at the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space.
The reduction in days with at least an inch of snow on the ground was the most pronounced at stations between 42 and 44 degrees latitude - a band that includes most of Massachusetts, a thick slice of upstate New York and southern sections of Vermont and New Hampshire.
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Find Out About the Weather in Your Area
- National Climatic Data Center
- Protecting the past, preserving the future.
- Northeast Regional Climate Center
- What the climate in your state?
Get Ready for that Warm Weather!
Proof of Global Warming - It Used to Be REALLY COLD!
" But the booming interest in climate change has transformed the study of ancient weather records from what was once a "wallflower science," says Christian Pfister, a climate historian at the University of Bern."
Seems climate change historians are becoming the "ones to watch" these days. History can't be changed. But it can be learned from and used to predict the future.
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What To Know More About The Farmer's Almanac?
- History of the Almanac Covers
- From 1793 - 1992 - one of the few books that is known for its cover..
- History of Old Farmer's Almanac
- Here's the story!
Are You Ready for a HOT Year?
Out here in California, at the end of summer 2007, we are still having triple digit heat waves. I am SO not looking forward to more of this next summer. Are you?
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KarenHS2
Oh man - I love hot weather but the long dry spell really got me here in NC. I really hate to think about it being hotter next year! Posted September 19, 2007 |
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Susan52
Interesting history of the almanac and the covers. I had never read that before. I'm voting that they're wrong about the triple digits! Remind me to check back with you next summer! Posted September 12, 2007 |
Farmer's Almanac Trivia
- The Old Farmer's Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America.
- Only 13 people have held the title of editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac since it was first published in 1792.
- In 1858, Abraham Lincoln may have used a copy of The Old Farmer's Almanac to argue the innocence of his client, William ("Duff") Armstrong, who was on trial for murder in Beardstown, Illinois. Lincoln used an almanac to refute the testimony of Charles Allen, an eyewitness who claimed he had seen the crime by the light of the moon on August 29, 1857. The book stated that not only was the Moon in the first quarter, but it was riding "low" on the horizon, about to set. Because the actual almanac used in the trial was not retained for posterity, however, there exists some controversey as to whether the almanac used was, in fact, "The Old Farmer's Almanac."
- Films that have featured The Old Farmer's Almanac include Desk Set (1957), In the Gloaming (1997), Love Letters (1998), State and Main (2000), Elizabethtown (2005), and The Dukes of Hazzard (2005).
- In 2007, a competing almanac, the Farmers' Almanac, based in Lewiston, Maine, ran an article claiming that the almanac in queston may have been theirs. Because both farmers' almanacs, and many others, were in general circulation at the time of the trial, there is no way to verify which book, if either, was the almanac used by Lincoln.
- The Old Farmer's Almanac has been featured on TV in episodes of Dharma & Greg, Pinky and the Brain, and Malcolm in the Middle, served as a topic on Jeopardy!, and as an answer on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
