12/10/12, "Harvard hosts coastal disaster forum today," Junk Science
"In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, this Forum event will explore how people and cities rebound from devastating natural disasters and how they prepare for new catastrophes. With millions of people living in coastal cities, coupled with changing weather patterns, natural disasters present significant public health and policy implications — from managing crises, to safeguarding infrastructure, to bolstering and leveraging the resilience of people and cities. This Forum event will be presented in collaboration with The Huffington Post.
E-mail questions for the expert participants any time before or during the live webcast to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu." via Climate Depot
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12/7/12, "Surprise Side Effect Of Shale Gas Boom: A Plunge In U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions," Forbes, guest article by Julie M. Carey, an energy economist with Navigant Economics
8/16/12, “AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low,” AP, Kevin Begos“In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.
Many of the world’s leading climate scientists didn’t see the drop coming, in large part because it happened as a result of market forces rather than direct government action against carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere.
Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, said the shift away from coal is reason for “cautious optimism” about potential ways to deal with climate change….
In a little-noticed technical report, the U.S. Energy Information Agency, a part of the Energy Department, said this month that energy related U.S. CO2 emissions for the first four months of this year fell to about 1992 levels. Energy emissions make up about 98 percent of the total. The Associated Press contacted environmental experts, scientists and utility companies and learned that
virtually everyone believes the shift could have major long-term implications for U.S. energy policy.”…
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Infrastructure built after a 1992 hurricane in Bradley Beach, NJ saved them from Sandy damage. That's something different from giving billions of US taxpayer dollars to the Sultan of Brunei for alleged "clean energy" CO2 terror expenses:
Below, one of the Sultan of Brunei's 5000+ cars:
7/24/12, "The Sultan's Cars," wheel to wheel blog.
"...a beach house in Bradley Beach, N.J. escaped serious (Sandy storm) damage thanks to view-obstructing dunes the town built after a damaging hurricane in 1992."...
12/5/12, "Storm Writes a New Script in Campaigns for New York Mayor," NY Times, by Michael M. Grynbaum
"Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, whose Chelsea apartment lost power for four days, has focused more on the practical challenges left by the storm. ...
Ms. Quinn was the only major Democratic contender who lost power in the storm, but she, like all the candidates, said her concerns were minor compared with those of people who live in low-lying areas. ...As it often does with Ms. Quinn, the personal overlaps with the political. She and her wife share
a beach house in Bradley Beach, N.J., which escaped serious damage thanks to view-obstructing dunes the town built after a damaging hurricane in 1992 — a useful case study as New York prepares its own preventive measures.
“People used to bust a little bit on Bradley because you couldn’t see the water from the Boardwalk,” Ms. Quinn said. “But the dunes did their job. They ended up on the Boardwalk, but they held the water back.”"...
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11/19/12, "White House Announces $6 Billion to Promote Clean Energy – in Asia," CNS News, Lucas
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