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Re:California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant ... by TigeriusKirk on Saturday October 16, 2021 @11:10AM (#28888382)
To actually answer your question instead of trying to spin it away -

“What changed dramatically…is we have had significantly bigger and more West-wide heat waves than ever before,” Mr. Randolph said. “Those aren’t built into our planning standards.”

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Re:California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant ... by bryan0 on Saturday October 16, 2021 @11:16AM (#28888434)
Yeah this quote caught my eye too, but how is this possible? They’re not planning for a hotter and dryer climate in CA? I find that hard to believe.
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Re:California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant ... by cedilla on Saturday October 16, 2021 @11:23AM (#28888488)
Both intensity and frequency of extreme weather events increased much faster than anticipated.

This may be a result of climate scientists presenting conservative estimates due to the fear of being labelled alarmist.

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Re:California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant ... by bryan0 on Saturday October 16, 2021 @11:57AM (#28888747)
This explanation doesn’t make much to me. CA is aggressively moving to renewables (well if you ignore shutting down nuclear) and we’re doing this because the state is alarmed about climate change.
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Re:California Scrambles to Find Electricity to Offset Plant ... by cedilla on Saturday October 16, 2021 @12:02PM (#28888798)
Well, extreme weather events have become much more common sooner than expected. As to why this happened, I only speculated.

I don't think that the state is alarmed about climate change as it aims to have a carbon neutral grid by 2045, which is already quite late even following the conservatives estimations.

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