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Shell Opts Not to Build Plant on Gulf Coast, Citing Costs

After two years of research, the company said a plant that would convert natural gas to liquids would have cost more than $20 billion. Originally posted here:  Shell Opts Not to Build Plant on Gulf Coast, Citing Costs ; ;Related ArticlesCiting Cost Concerns, Shell Will Not Build Gulf Coast PlantOPEC, Foreseeing No Glut, Keeps Oil Production Level SteadySolarCity to Use Batteries From Tesla for Energy Storage ;

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Citing Cost Concerns, Shell Will Not Build Gulf Coast Plant

After two years of research, the company said a plant that would convert natural gas to liquids would have cost more than $20 billion. View this article –  Citing Cost Concerns, Shell Will Not Build Gulf Coast Plant ; ;Related ArticlesOPEC, Foreseeing No Glut, Keeps Oil Production Level SteadySolarCity to Use Batteries From Tesla for Energy StorageLarge Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon ;

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Large Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon

More than two dozen major American corporations are preparing to pay climate-related taxes, departing from conservative orthodoxy and exposing divisions between the Republican Party and its business supporters. View this article:  Large Companies Prepared to Pay Price on Carbon ; ;Related ArticlesOPEC, Foreseeing No Glut, Keeps Oil Production Level SteadySolarCity to Use Batteries From Tesla for Energy StorageFully serviced bee sales/rentals help bee fans become hive owners ;

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Warhammer 40,000: Stronghold Assault (eBook Edition) – Games Workshop

From Aegis Defence Lines to Aquila Strongpoints, the battlefields of the Imperium are punctuated with these looming structures – towering bastions and inviolable fortresses that bristle with fire ports and heavy weapon emplacements. To assault such bulwarks is to charge headlong into the face of death. Only the most determined armies, led by the canniest of […]

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Dataslate: Adeptus Astartes Storm Wing (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Like a bolt out of war-torn skies comes the Storm Wing – salvation for the Emperor’s forces, and a bane to their foes. The Adeptus Astartes Storm Wing gives Warhammer 40,000 players background information and rules that allow them to collect and field this deadly combination of fighter-craft. For the Adeptus Astartes to achieve their rapid strike styl […]

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Dataslate: Adeptus Astartes Storm Wing (eBook Edition) – Games Workshop

Like a bolt out of war-torn skies comes the Storm Wing – salvation for the Emperor’s forces, and a bane to their foes. The Adeptus Astartes Storm Wing gives Warhammer 40,000 players background information and rules that allow them to collect and field this deadly combination of fighter-craft. For the Adeptus Astartes to achieve their rapid strike styl […]

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Dataslate: Tau Firebase Support Cadre (eBook Edition) – Games Workshop

Tau combat doctrine places great emphasis on defeating enemy forces using superior firepower and technological advantage. At the heart of this method of warfare are their battlesuits; giant mechanical suits that are armed with the most powerful Tau weaponry. Foremost among these are the terrifying XV104 Riptide and XV88 Broadside battlesuits, capable of demo […]

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Battlescroll: The Restless Dead (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Now you too can summon reanimated corpses to do your evil bidding. The Restless Dead contains background and rules that will allow you to wield a fearsome Undead formation in Warhammer. In the Warhammer world, the dead do not rest easy. Pools of dark magic are siphoned off to fuel fell necromantic enchantments – dread words whispered into the Winds of Magic. […]

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Dataslate: Be’lakor, The Dark Master (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Know as the first Daemon Prince, Be’lakor has stalked the worlds of the Imperium since the beginnings of mortal memory. Favoured of the four Chaos Gods, he has ever been in the midst of their plots and plans, his own manipulations and schemes reach far across the stars and down through the millennia. As the End Times draw close, Be’lakor once again […]

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Dataslate: Tau Firebase Support Cadre (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Tau combat doctrine places great emphasis on defeating enemy forces using superior firepower and technological advantage. At the heart of this method of warfare are their battlesuits; giant mechanical suits that are armed with the most powerful Tau weaponry. Foremost among these are the terrifying XV104 Riptide and XV88 Broadside battlesuits, capable of demo […]

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Be’lakor, The Dark Master: Digital Collection (Interactive Edition) – Games Workshop

Belakor is rumoured to have been the first mortal to become a Daemon Prince, in a time when each of the four Chaos Gods thought they could combine their power into a single champion. Among the oldest servants of the Dark Gods, Be’lakor is full of secrets and lies, as evil and dangerous a foe to have ever stepped forth from the realm of Chaos. This Digit […]

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Warhammer 40,000: Escalation – Games Workshop

Huge engines of war rumble across the battlefields of the 41st Millennium crushing everything in their path. The lumbering super-heavy tanks and towering titans of the Imperium square off against devastating and impossibly deadly alien machines or Warp-spawned horrors forged deep within the Eye of Terror. In their shadows, ranks of stalwart warriors prepare […]

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Dataslate: Be’lakor, The Dark Master (eBook Edition) – Games Workshop

Know as the first Daemon Prince, Be’lakor has stalked the worlds of the Imperium since the beginnings of mortal memory. Favoured of the four Chaos Gods, he has ever been in the midst of their plots and plans, his own manipulations and schemes reach far across the stars and down through the millennia. As the End Times draw close, Be’lakor once again […]

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SolarCity to Use Batteries From Tesla for Energy Storage

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Can we blame climate change for the Northeast’s massive blizzard?

Can we blame climate change for the Northeast’s massive blizzard?

The great blizzard of 2013 (which shall remain nameless) has come and gone. At least 15 people were killed, and 700,000 lost power. A nuclear power plant in Massachusetts was knocked offline. Storm surge in the state flooded several communities. In many parts of the Northeast, new one-day snowfall records were set. It was a massive storm — one whose damage could have been much worse.

Christopher Burt at the Weather Underground puts the storm in perspective:

The storm was certainly among the top five to affect Southern New England and Maine and for some localities, the worst winter storm on record (going back 300 years since European inhabitants began keeping track of such things). …

It can probably be said that winter storm Nemo was the 2nd most intense winter storm event for Long Island, Connecticut, eastern Massachusetts, and perhaps Rhode Island. For Long Island and Connecticut the Blizzard of 1888 remains unparalleled whereas for Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts the Blizzard of 1978 remains the top event. For southeastern Maine it would appear that Nemo has been the most extreme snowstorm on record. …

I might add that it is a bit unsettling that two of the most significant storms in the past 300 years to strike the northeastern quadrant of the U.S. have occurred within just four months from one another.

Emphasis added, because it’s worth emphasizing.

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In our preview of the storm last Thursday, we noted the circumstantial evidence that climate change might make the blizzard worse. Over at ThinkProgress, Joe Romm dove a lot deeper:

Like a baseball player on steroids, our climate system is breaking records at an unnatural pace. And like a baseball player on steroids, it’s the wrong question to ask whether a given home run is “caused” by steroids.

But:

The blizzard is also pulling in an extraordinary amount of moisture, which is consistent with recent trends in the Northeast toward more frequent one-day precipitation extremes during the cold season, including snowstorms. The satellite-derived image of total precipitable water shows that the storm has been drawing tropical moisture from the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean.

[Former head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Dr. Kevin] Trenberth’s second point is an important one — warmer than normal winters favor snow storms (See “We get more snow storms in warm years“).

The ThinkProgress post includes this graph, showing the growth in one-day precipitation extremes as the climate has warmed.

Did climate change create this storm? No. Did climate change make the storm bigger and more powerful? Evidence suggests it. Is it disconcerting and alarming that two major storms have struck the Northeast since the end of October? Well, I live in the Northeast. So: very much so.

Philip Bump writes about the news for Gristmill. He also uses Twitter a whole lot.

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