Reporting from the “blistering" fire conditions in Berkeley (Temp 64F/17C, Winds 8 mph, and humidity 41%): Ronnie’s hypothesis is looking increasingly more likely to be borne out, classes are back on, and I won’t have to stretch for examples in tomorrow’s (already as scheduled) lecture on North and South and on the diminishing difference between/diversity within countries on both sides of the divide. Tim Doyle’s work on majority and minority worlds is highly appropriate moving forward.
Kate On Oct 9, 2019, at 4:49 PM, Shannon Kathryn Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > > It’s also an interesting case study of how climate change can be a > “multiplier effect”. You take the aging infrastructure (power lines in this > case) and add in warm weather/high winds and it escalates the danger of > wildfire. > > And unfortunately, those who are most vulnerable (e.g. hourly workers in > retail and food service who will not be called into work during power > outages) are the ones who feel the biggest impact. Along with parents who are > dealing with school closures and no back up child care. > > Shannon > > > -- > Shannon K. Orr, Ph.D. > Professor/Graduate Coordinator > Political Science Department > 118 Williams Hall > Bowling Green State University > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > 419-372-7593 > > > > From: 'Ronnie Lipschutz' via gep-ed <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Reply-To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 6:05 PM > To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>" > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Cc: 'GEP-Ed List <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: CA outages & climate change [Re: [gep-ed] Fordham > University Comparative Politics/Environmental Policy position] > > Those of us at UC Santa Cruz keep getting warnings of imminent shutoffs, > which keep being postponed. There is a growing suspicion that PG&E is > engaged in a form of blackmail, intended to motivate a public demand to > accede to all of its bankruptcy demands and wishes (including smaller payouts > to fire victims). There is, so far, no sign of the predicted Diablo winds > that are supposed to trigger the shutoff. > > All of this makes me thing the case for regional microgrids, operated by > community power aggregators, is stronger than ever. At least then you would > not have to shut down half of California in seeking to prevent another costly > fire. Either utilities need to underground their transmission > networks--extremely costly--or create subgrids that can be shut off > independently as necessary. Otherwise, their asteroid is on its way. > > Ronnie > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 2:54 PM Charles Chester <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Kate, >> >> Your parenthetical coda was intriguing…please power up your computer while >> you can (and obtain a satellite uplink, I guess) so you can send us >> gep-eders some real-time updates from your (increasingly remote?) outpost on >> the climate change front. >> >> You also inspired me to google <<california power outage climate change>>. >> Some notable finds came up, including the first, which I thought most on >> this email list would appreciate: >> >> Think California's Preemptive Blackouts Are Scary? Buckle Up >> <https://earther.gizmodo.com/think-californias-preemptive-blackouts-are-scary-buckl-1838912490> >> Good luck, >> >> Charlie Chester >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> GEP-guide.net >> <http://secure-web.cisco.com/1f_YDAvNd8vtIFYwdAZC5U1mnuoz04IQc__XraIgzDnnRnligzBGPDpJ_9JeAlGQJXCh0cmq2o6EQfI_UkH9t1e7eFBAyNA8Jf6kx-_RCNqezDVtPja-JlKW_Nz9wNCxe7vX-kMnD5VNh7gzrpr04D8EKciT8aQbJMez5jwIzlwf8IRVnGy7dA96t2pLCc8eiAyb9-DXVaHuJuQPKwMyCvS5UOMO5MvLWjBoPowDWRNENim1_wtwlPxD0H1iZd5O0kQc-RfpZbU7iVwCR1P3o40iBvL3ZP-_sY1WTTs1omkpoIIKhJQ-WOcOe7q6Q-FlQYyRNxTARUjF0U2I4AMASb6JHk0Ulq8ZF8BtRjr7EzbvXuKJi8zYdVuEPiPGTxl3xKXSm30nnguxquiyn2mtlK_5sW1vnh2kAYfWI5lzt6TPGb1NuPPJ9w2FrKf3_hrmj0--LL8P5E25Dry3xP-nfabq1Qwm1MLBdz7vbQS4MUL1hqmujJ9RHi3RdLKpc84cZc192kL6fNZsPYGOdSWosPg/http%3A%2F%2Fgep-guide.net> >> • BCI >> <http://secure-web.cisco.com/14pmtj9vBI-JDmX8PBxtoZ1lTxcxcsJgupKO5BpKtRTfcSWvodqUOKYgIxKiwZBbOrLbHG_5yf3R7RguGboADfQhyWz9N88sLB9DNXmLisym8r32so_z4V0XYV_LZQQkHx6lz5XknWEKCPUFgN5jJbb1812LQ1pPoA0ZQEJmYzxxYFccYPLvjSvTUGu-eInTNch7Q4Iid1cyxr2LCIPgRcJjSahoR0UJ1VwSJf8C-TExau9woExVXF2cdhdYRyPVw0CVM-eei5GeGJOaIZbTb3tfl4tucBaPHs3FFeIwe1DgSJu4DO2J-WzE1Q5IPxcBDE7PEKTbRxXLeFgSc26kddblrWor-UoksPS6AVJVGYFSXWqpZKXuWvc5anH4vNMDvDHwJdYhw1ilVeKa81czFx5tbzAQE2GkqvMfnom6nQbSmdI76mrHB6JWuqSPbpK3gFM25ZLP_Su13pBgwwpCFD9bsHWmD75qUsxHQRB1vV1WwRhS6J7V3bzct8UDZuBQT9dDyhA2VvTK2PRfWoL9pvA/http%3A%2F%2Fbatcon.org> >> • Y2Y >> <http://secure-web.cisco.com/11JnzwMQZJVF__d4hla8kvHuC6ueElLCtFF0cI3D131x_s1vmpLruk4nYcL1UcLiHIplW2o3ZLECixpw9a8G-qYUaTuF_ePjnkY0HHLD0eJLnEMviZH0bVqOPNxRyenOa6zel6CZsR5eCg2-9yP07sj9-qI5estfBpJETuOyI0bh2U1yvGrHNQ_bicceFyn5s8-rX_8EkdBJIgYBNIlahgll9dL-VpJmLlMo9LyL0HC2Ry46Ek0ydtnkCESGD-RecSUd0dkPTVGJFLOiJTv1v-KVeAwOpJQ53LJDvZTV2-6TcjjBH08HFAH1SW56tc-5FGYdFieJWHuNLGI6Q3I2NvTfDeRGCo_f3mdcUrQZwc05MpUtzB7ooq02brliQFNY-7NQqQwDgdFKsSeIPYykNhr5BmHbXOTSyUcEy3hx2EtagerH9aipRgULIlXo6JZQa4r-B63vgrUtFtr8V1jkZaiVe96lRbIjhO4kVluyx9DjDmetzveqwlsUMEdrZVxIbnqPvhSkqX8qNh2YElaUzbw/http%3A%2F%2FY2Y.net> >> • Brandeis <http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/environmental/> • Fletcher >> <https://sites.tufts.edu/cierp/> >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Oct 9, 2019, at 4:22 PM, Kate O'NEILL <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Please also pass along to your networks! 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