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Harvey: Fierce Climate Change at Work
Harvey: Fierce Climate Change at Work Photo by The National Guard | CC BY 2.0 Is Harvey a force of nature or something more? Clearly, Harvey is a natural disaster of monstrous proportions. Its destructiveness is the hottest topic on TV coast-to-coast and around the world. Still, cynics of climate change say natural disasters, like […]
Arkema Texas Plant Explodes Causing “Massive” Fire, “Black Smoke Fills The Air”
Arkema Texas Plant Explodes Causing “Massive” Fire, “Black Smoke Fills The Air” You can’t say they didn’t warn us: this afternoon, the VP of US manufacturing Daryl Roberts at French chemicals giant Arkema, said the company was on “high alert” as more fires could start at the doomed facility at any moment. Well, that moment […]
Weekend Reading: Harvey & The Broken Window Fallacy
Weekend Reading: Harvey & The Broken Window Fallacy As the waters recede from “Hurricane Harvey,” the rebuilding efforts begin. It will take quite some time before Houston fully recovers from the tragedy, but recover we will. Hopefully, lessons were learned by a city government that has avoided dealing with the drainage and flooding problems for […]
Looming Gas Shortage: “Imports Can’t Make Up For This”
Looming Gas Shortage: “Imports Can’t Make Up For This” The East Coast will start feeling the effects of Hurricane Harvey as the gasoline supplied from the Gulf Coast starts to dry up. One of the most important pipelines that ships refined products to the Eastern Seaboard shut down on Thursday, which means that the U.S. […]
A Hot Mess
A Hot Mess It wasn’t until more than a week after Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans in 2005 that the full extent of the damage was recognized and so it will go with the hot mess where Houston used to be. Mostly, it is inconceivable that the business activity which made Houston the nation’s […]
Hurricane Harvey Aftermath: 100,000 Homes Destroyed, A Million Vehicles Ruined And Bottled Water Being Sold For $99 A Case
Hurricane Harvey Aftermath: 100,000 Homes Destroyed, A Million Vehicles Ruined And Bottled Water Being Sold For $99 A Case It is now being estimated that the total amount of economic damage caused by Hurricane Harvey will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 190 billion dollars. It is a disaster unlike anything that we have ever […]
What Did Harvey Do to the Wind Farms on the Texas Coast?
What Did Harvey Do to the Wind Farms on the Texas Coast? Downed power lines was the biggest problem. Oil-and-gas state Texas is by far the largest wind power producer among US states. With an installed capacity of 21,044 MW, and with 5,437 MW under construction as of the end of 2016, Texas is well […]
Arkema Releases List Of Toxic Chemicals Stored At Doomed Texas Plant, Warns “More Fires” Imminent
Arkema Releases List Of Toxic Chemicals Stored At Doomed Texas Plant, Warns “More Fires” Imminent One day after two explosions rocked its flooded plant in Crosby, Texas, French chemicals giant Arkema said it was on “high alert” as more fires could start at the doomed facility at any moment, according to VP of US manufacturing […]
Harvey Causing “Unprecedented” Disruptions To Supplies Of “Essential” Chemicals
Harvey Causing “Unprecedented” Disruptions To Supplies Of “Essential” Chemicals The unprecedented destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey will impact the US economy in ways may not be immediately apparent. Until recently, coverage of the storm’s impact has focused on property damage and the impact on the energy industry. But in a story published Friday, Bloomberg explains […]
Hurricane Harvey Looters Targeting Fuel Tanks As Google Searches For “How To Siphon Gas” Soar
Hurricane Harvey Looters Targeting Fuel Tanks As Google Searches For “How To Siphon Gas” Soar Texas resident Joe Roan woke up to a rather unpleasant surprise yesterday morning as he discovered the remnants of a would-be thief attempting to steal gasoline from his Jeep Wrangler tank. Unfortunately, as a local CBS affiliate pointed out last […]
Scientist Confirms: Harvey Caused A “1-In-1,000-Year Flood”
Scientist Confirms: Harvey Caused A “1-In-1,000-Year Flood” Scientists have confirmed what one renowned weather forecaster has suspected for days: Hurricane Harvey was a “1-in-1,000-year flood.” That’s according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin’s Space Science and Engineering Center, who claim there is nothing in the historical record that rivals the devastation resulting from the […]
Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature
Hurricane Harvey and the Dialectics of Nature Between 1872 and 1882, Frederick Engels worked on a book titled “The Dialectics of Nature” that sought to apply Marxist dialectics to the natural world. Although it was never completed and is filled with dated ideas about science, it is a work that has earned the respect of […]
Harvey Victims Face Toxic Pollution as Hurricane Recovery Begins
HARVEY VICTIMS FACE TOXIC POLLUTION AS HURRICANE RECOVERY BEGINS TEXAS COMMUNITIES THAT have long experienced health problems from nearby oil refineries and chemical plants are now facing the fossil fuel industry’s longer-term impacts: storms made more severe by climate change and the painful recovery process that follows their landfall — a recovery made far worse […]
“Rapidly Intensifying” Hurricane Irma Barreling Straight Toward The East Coast
“Rapidly Intensifying” Hurricane Irma Barreling Straight Toward The East Coast The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has just updated its forecast for what it is now referring to as a “rapidly intensifying” Category 2 hurricane in the Eastern Atlantic ocean and the results look disastrous for a large swath of the Caribbean and Southeastern United States. […]
Worries about a Galveston Bio-Lab
Worries about a Galveston Bio-Lab Exclusive: The flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey has left thousands homeless in the greater Houston area but there also is rising concern about a biological lab in Galveston that houses deadly diseases, notes Joe Lauria. Concern is rising for the safety of a biological lab containing deadly diseases on Galveston […]
