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GMA: ‘Heat Dome’ Will Bring Record Temps–And Risk Of Power Grid Collapse

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On Good Morning America, ABC’s Sam Champion warned East Coast viewers it’s not just going to be insanely hot today, but–brace yourself–you might not have air conditioning to endure the heat. Champion says the monster heat wave is pushing power grids toward capacity as temperatures hover around 100 degrees and energy consumption strains the system. It’s called a “heat dome,” a shroud of high pressure that’s keeping millions of Americans stuck in a prison of hot, humid air–and a very real possibility of power failures.

As ABC News reports this morning, cities are bracing for the worst:

New York City’s Consolidated Edison reports that its system is at 93 percent capacity. The New York area will presumably break its record for power consumption today, and break the weekend power consumption record Saturday. The city can reportedly expect power outages to pop up during the next few days.

In Chicago, Commonwealth Edison reached an all-time peak usage milestone late Wednesday, while ISO New England – which covers six states from Connecticut to Maine — forecasts that demand Saturday will peak at 27,350 megawatts, putting it in the top 10 of usage days.

Intentional rolling blackouts have already begun in the Detroit area.

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  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Notice how the science deniers, a/k/a Republicans, always talk about the fallacy of climate change when we have some snow and cold weather in the winter (“No ‘global warming’ here!”) but go mute when we have an excessively hot and humid spell in the summer? Hey guys: If you’re going to confuse climate and weather in the winter, you’ve got to do it in the summer, too. No situational science denial!

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    The power grid will not collapse, all the liberals have to do is go out to their windfarms and blow, that should solve the green energy crisis.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Climate change? What happened to Global Warming? According to Obama “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal …”Now get out there and peddle that new powerplant!

  • Moderate

    With all the factories moving to China, they should be the ones having a power problem, not us.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    The are building one 400 Kw coal fired powerplant each week. Where do you think all our coal is going to go after the EPA shuts ours down?

    It is going to be a new world order that Clinton and gang envisioned. Right along with the traitors in the Republican party.

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  • Anonymous

    If only we could mandate energy saving appliances and light bulbs.  But that would upset William Wallace because it would take away our Freeeeeeedom!!!

  • Anonymous

    Notice how the morons who want to believe an ex-politician about – what is it called this week? – oh yeah, Climate Change (because Global Warming wasn’t panning out) never address how we were able to get in and out of 5 or 6 Ice Ages without the planet warming and cooling over and over and over? I will say it is pretty convenient that if it is really hot it is Climate Change then if it is really cold it is still Climate Change. Kinda like a double headed quarter and Algore always calls “heads.”

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You’re post is superfluous. We already knew you were a science denier.

  • Anonymous

    LOL. And we all know you are a Algore loyalist. Just type in “heat wave of ____” (you can pick the year at random) and you get the same results. There is always a heat wave every year. Philadelphia may break a 1957 record of 100 degrees on Friday, while Washington, D.C., is expected to reach 103, tying a record from 1926. Hell I was just watching the National Geographic Channel about the theory of what wiped out the Egyptians. Want to know what it was? Global Warming. They surmise that the Nile dried up and have soil samples to prove it. This is what happens. The earth cools (i.e. ice age) and then it warms up again. Nothing new here other than Algore standing to make a billion dollars off the scam.

  • Anonymous

    One more lie Obama told us. He said that if we elected him the earth would start to “heal.” Bwa ha ha!

  • Darladoon

    global warming causes climates to change

    not that difficult to understand the difference

  • Anonymous

    You’re right. Global Warming caused all the Ice Ages we have gone through to cease.

  • Darladoon

    why don’t you do a little research.  here’s a good start:

    http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/21/why-we-need-to-keep.html

    why do you detest science so much, 2012 freedom?

  • thisexists

    Mr. Science Person, why did the earth go through all those climate changes back when there weren’t any people to cause it?    

  • Anonymous

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/29/the-medieval-warm-period-a-global-phenonmena-unprecedented-warming-or-unprecedented-data-manipulation/

    Why don’t you do a little research? Global Warming is a hoax. If Algore was so concerned about it he would be living in a tee-pee riding a bike. Instead he is traveling everywhere in a private jet and living in a 10,000 sq. ft. house.  He is in it for the money plain and simple.

    In addition, the world would have still been covered in ice without Global Warming. The polar bears are doing just fine and actually increasing in numbers. They have always swam for miles and miles for food. The difference is, now it is televised.

  • Anonymous

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/29/the-medieval-warm-period-a-global-phenonmena-unprecedented-warming-or-unprecedented-data-manipulation/

    Why don’t you do a little research? Global Warming is a hoax. If Algore was so concerned about it he would be living in a tee-pee riding a bike. Instead he is traveling everywhere in a private jet and living in a 10,000 sq. ft. house.  He is in it for the money plain and simple.

    In addition, the world would have still been covered in ice without Global Warming. The polar bears are doing just fine and actually increasing in numbers. They have always swam for miles and miles for food. The difference is, now it is televised.

  • Anonymous

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/29/the-medieval-warm-period-a-global-phenonmena-unprecedented-warming-or-unprecedented-data-manipulation/

    Why don’t you do a little research? Global Warming is a hoax. If Algore was so concerned about it he would be living in a tee-pee riding a bike. Instead he is traveling everywhere in a private jet and living in a 10,000 sq. ft. house.  He is in it for the money plain and simple.

    In addition, the world would have still been covered in ice without Global Warming. The polar bears are doing just fine and actually increasing in numbers. They have always swam for miles and miles for food. The difference is, now it is televised.

  • Anonymous

    The Medieval Warm Period – a global phenomenon, unprecedented warming, or unprecedented data manipulation?

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/29/the-medieval-warm-period-a-global-phenonmena-unprecedented-warming-or-unprecedented-data-manipulation/

  • Anonymous

    The Medieval Warm Period – a global phenomenon, unprecedented warming, or unprecedented data manipulation?

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/29/the-medieval-warm-period-a-global-phenonmena-unprecedented-warming-or-unprecedented-data-manipulation/

  • Darladoon

    yeah, and those “climate changes” you speak of happened over tens (or hundreds) of thousands
    of years…….not 100-150 years.

    kind of a critical difference, but again, i don’t expect anti-science knuckle draggers to 
    UNDERSTAND these very obvious critical differences

  • Anonymous

    yeah, and those “climate changes” you speak of happened over tens (or hundreds) of thousands
    of years…….not 100-150 years.
    ————————————————————————————————————————————————————-Well, the recent heat waves are likely the warmest since 1500 in Europe. So, in 1500 it was just as warm as it was now. My SUV wasn’t around in the 1500′s and there were much fewer people. Quit trying to stick a square peg into a round hole.     

  • Anonymous

    “Climate change 6,000 years ago in Sahara desert explained”
    http://eltahir.mit.edu/news/climate-change-6000-years-ago-sahara-desert-explained

    Here’s another great read for you and in this particular article it also states that it was an increased time frame that altered the Sarah Desert. Faster “global warming” was happening 6,000 years ago so the whole “but this time it is different because it is faster” is total crap.

    “Eltahir’s models suggest that the erosion of that 500 kilometer swath of land from arable to arid was likely to have been sudden, occurring over decades and years, rather than a slow evolution over centuries.”

    “”Sometimes nature reinforces whatever damage you do. We tend to think of nature as healing the damage we humans do. But in this case it seems to be a bit self-destructive,” said Eltahir.”

    Again, no SUV’s to be seen.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Global Warming causes Climates to change.

    How do you determine what Climate change is? Is it the change in temperature? More storms? Less storms? Consistently increasing ocean levels over the past 100 years? Record temperatures cold and hot? What EXACTLY are the parameters of that climate change?

    It seems all the predictions from the chicken littles are getting scrubbed as we speak. Ocean level parameters changed. Temperature parameters changed. etc changed.

    See with SCIENCE, you postulate a theory, you make predictions. If your predictions prove to be inaccurate, you make adjustments to your theory and make other predictions.

    You do not scrub the data. You do not just change your predictions. You do not just rename your theory and lie. That is called politics.

    Now go away before I taunt you a second time, and I say NEET unto you!

  • Darladoon

    if you are referring to climategate, and i assume you are, then you are (obviously) wrong

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    Every summer it will be very hot somewhere in USA. As for Globe warming I believe in some of it not all of it Al Grove needs to walk the walk at least Ed walks the walks and talks the talk about Globe warming. I will never use a bike to use power and I believe in little things like turning off lights when not in use reuseable bags at the stores is also good thing etc.

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