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New $1.1B sea wall protects New Orleans against major storms but may cultivate complacency
2014-05-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Looming 26 feet over the bayou, the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal-Lake Borgne Surge Barrier stands as a concrete and steel sentinel against the rising and heaving ocean. The 1.4-mile-long wall, also known as the IHNC barrier, protects vital commercial arteries and more than 350,000 people in New Orleans. An ambitious and expensive project built on soft soils and hard lessons, this Great Wall of Louisiana is a bulwark against once-in-a-century storms. The problem: After Hurricane Katrina drowned...
Buffett's Coca-Cola Complacency Warning Foretells Tough Year
2014-02-20 03:27:39| Beverages - Topix.net
Warren Buffett, speaking last April at Coca-Cola Co.' s annual meeting, warned that the beverage giant shouldn't get complacent about its success.
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Nuclear occupational safety: the war on complacency
2014-01-29 01:00:00| Power Technology
Occupational safety at nuclear power plants has notably improved in the last ten years. However, human error means that fatal accidents still happen. Industry experts explain how they believe technology, a zero-tolerance culture and international col
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Finland seeks lessons after Fukushima on nuclear complacency culture
2013-09-06 09:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Finland is pushing to ensure that complacency does not threaten its nuclear safety record as it builds new reactors despite the Fukushima disaster, which has made some other European states think twice about atomic energy. The head of Finland's nuclear safety body, Petteri Tiippana, said cultural as well as technical lessons had to be learnt from the crisis in Japan, the worst in a quarter of a century. "It was said in a report in Japan that the underlying causes of the accident had to do with...
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Global warming slows but beware complacency
2013-01-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The latest forecasts from a foremost climate research institute that global warming has slowed present a new challenge to policymakers on how to inject urgency into the campaign to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Climate change is a growing problem. Each year in the past decade has been hotter than the 1981-2010 average, and extreme heat waves are becoming more frequent. But the research indicates the rate of warming has slowed in the past decade and a half due to temporary natural factors....
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