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World sets all-time high temperature record 2 days in a row

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‘Unprecedented and terrifying’: World sets all-time high temperature record 2 days in a row

The Earth’s average temperature reached an all-time high on Monday, and then again on Tuesday, in what is shaping up to be a year of record-breaking heat.

Monday’s global average temperature of 62.62 degrees Fahrenheit was exceeded Tuesday when it reached 62.92?F, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute.

Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of geophysical climate hazards at University College London, called the back-to-back records “totally unprecedented and terrifying.”

High Voltage Power Lines in NYS

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This interactive map shows the high-voltage lines in New York State. It is a different presentation of the map shown in EIA State Energy Profile. Data Source: Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) and Energy Information Agency. Electric Substations: https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/electric-substations Electric Transmission Lines: https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/electric-power-transmission-lines

Final Disadvantaged Communities (DAC) 2023

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The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) directs the Climate Justice Working Group (CJWG) to establish criteria for defining disadvantaged communities. This dataset identifies areas throughout the State that meet the final disadvantaged community definition as voted on by the Climate Justice Working Group.

The tracts will receive a minimum 35% of "overall benefits of spending" on clean energy and energy efficiency programs.

Data Source: https://data.ny.gov/Energy-Environment/Final-Disadvantaged-Communities-DAC-2023/2e6c-s6fp

NPR

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Climb aboard the Nuclear Ship Savannah in Baltimore : NPR

Deep inside the Port of Baltimore, past stacks of shipping containers and a plant that makes wallboard, sits the world's first, and only, nuclear-powered cruise ship – the NS Savannah.

The Savannah is the only nuclear-powered merchant ship the U.S. ever built, and the only nuclear vessel in the world designed with passengers in mind. As NPR's chief correspondent for all things atomic, I've wanted to see her for years.