Archive for natural disaster
Seismic Stats
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As Libyan rebels stormed Gadhafi’s compound, the Dow soared over 300 points, President Obama dropped to a 38% approval rating, and the East Coast registered a 5.8 on the Richter.
Deniers
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Got the idea for this one from a Washington Post column by Bill McKibben, a climate activist, denying that recent natural disasters are “isolated, unpredictable, discreet events”. Here are a few more Rapture ruptures.
Swim at Your Own Risk
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The Fukushima nuclear plants blew 4,385 times the legal limit for radiation levels in nearby seawater.
Could this mean a glowing future for water powered vehicles? Other than that, I’m still okay with the view that, if we must have electric cars, nukes are the best way to make them go.
Heavy Water
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Just as people were warming up to nuclear power again, along comes an 8.9 (update: 9.0).
Fearing another Chernobyl, Congressman Ed Markey wants to take this opportunity to suspend the licensing of new reactors here. William Tucker, in the WSJ, says he’s over-reacting.
James Delingpole, in The Telegraph, agrees and so does Josh Dzieza in The Daily Beast. Their consensus is that flooding the reactors with seawater means the utility owner is toast but nobody dies.
Doc Fix
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Baby Doc showed up in Haiti without a passport. Seems he’s down to his last $6 million, and that’s frozen in a Swiss bank account. Former Georgia congressman Bob Barr feels his pain, “He’s a man that cares very deeply about his country. He’s hurt deeply as we are when we see the devastation and utter waste of money, U.S. taxpayer money.”
Earth Birth
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Chile accepted help from all over the world to rescue the miners. It was a drill bit from Pennsylvania that did the job but I thought the coolest items were copper socks from Virginia to prevent foot infections. This story in The Week has the rundown of American contributions.
The Mother Of All Clean-Ups
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How do you lose 200 million gallons of oil? Apparently Mother Nature cleaned it up. Maybe she’ll sell it on the spot market.
Insubordinate
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Salazar is going to fight a federal judge’s ruling that strikes down a 6 month ban on deep water drilling. A panel of experts says Obama misrepresented its views to justify the ban in the first place.