{"id":5637,"date":"2013-02-19T04:19:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T09:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2013-02-13T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T14:50:25","slug":"year-4-month-2-day-19-cant-do-nothin-without-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-4-month-2-day-19-cant-do-nothin-without-the-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 4, Month 2, Day 19: Can’t Do Nothin’ Without The Man."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Herald reports that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is arguing in favor of buried power lines<\/a>. Given that the power lines currently have about 200 kg of ice on them, that’s not such a bad idea:<\/p>\n

SCITUATE \u2013 Gov. Deval Patrick this morning called for a sweeping review of the cost to bury power lines underground as the weekend\u2019s storm left 100,000 Bay Staters still without electricity and more than 1,000 still in shelters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am personally very interested in seeing a real analysis done on the cost to bury utilities underground. I know it\u2019s expensive, but I have to believe that with the cost of recovery, the disruption to personal and work lives over time and given the increased frequency of storms of this severity,\u201d it\u2019s worth a review, Patrick said.<\/p>\n

Early Monday, an estimated 100,000 Bay Staters were still without power and approximately 1,500 storm-displaced people were still in shelters.<\/p>\n

With fiercer weather events predicted, and the state\u2019s history of long-lasting power outages, the governor said, \u201cWe need to start thinking long term about how we adjust. Meteorologists are telling us that we\u2019re going to see more storms like this, and so we are going to have to start thinking, long term, about how we address this,\u201d Patrick said from this hard-hit town\u2019s high school, where more than 100 residents rode out Superstorm Nemo.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But since climate change isn’t real, this is going to cost too much. Sent February 11:<\/p>\n

When Governor Patrick, arguing for underground power lines in the Commonwealth, says that “meteorologists are telling us that we’re going to see more storms like this,” what he’s really talking about, of course, is climate change. Rising sea levels and increased atmospheric humidity are going to make the next generation of hurricanes and snowstorms into massive events. The prospect of a Nemo-sized storm once or twice every winter is an excellent argument for putting as many electrical lines underground as possible \u2014 as fast as possible. <\/p>\n

States on the frontline of the transforming climate will have to work rapidly to avert catastrophic consequences over the coming decades. But there is another strategy which has outlived its usefulness: the attempt by conservative politicians and media to deny the obvious facts of a rapidly transforming climate. Climate-change denialists are on the wrong side of science, and the wrong side of history.<\/p>\n

Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Boston Herald reports that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is arguing in favor of buried power lines. Given that the power lines currently have about 200 kg of ice on them, that’s not such a bad idea: SCITUATE \u2013 Gov. Deval Patrick this morning called for a sweeping review of the cost to bury power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[253,574,207,1233],"class_list":["post-5637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-denialists","tag-deval-patrick","tag-idiots","tag-power-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5641,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}