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Study: Climate change raises risks of power outages
2015-01-01 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Baltimore Sun: In the December issue of Climatic Change, researchers suggest that increases in storm frequency, as predicted by some climate scientists, are likely to aggravate power outages in hurricane-prone areas like Miami or New Orleans. But if hurricanes become more intense, as many climate researchers expect, the study found severe outages could occur in areas that now suffer relatively few storm landfalls - such as New York, Philadelphia and Hartford, Conn. "Hartford [is] not some place you'd think of...
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