The subcommittee on energy will now come to order and the chair will recognize himself or an opening statement. This years atlantic Hurricane Season was unprecedented. More named storms in close succession slammed the gulf and the u. S. Virgin islands. These hurricanes caused catastrophic damage in Energy Supply disruptions across the country. Both texas and florida are further down the road to recovery in the humanitarian crisis is unfolding in puerto rico. A number of colleagues from this committee have been down there and the u. S. Virgin islands where the majority of folks still remain without power for more than a month after Hurricane Maria made landfall. Todays hearing will review the response in Energy Recovery efforts in the wake of the storms that will help us begin to understand what went right and what went wrong. What lessons can be learned and how we as a risk and identify gaps so when the next hurricane hits we will be better prepared. As a result of Hurricane Harvey mor
Season was unprecedented. More named storms in close succession slammed the gulf and the u. S. Virgin islands. These hurricanes caused catastrophic damage in Energy Supply disruptions across the country. Both texas and florida are further down the road to recovery in the humanitarian crisis is unfolding in puerto rico. A number of colleagues from this committee have been down there and the u. S. Virgin islands where the majority of folks still remain without power for more than a month after Hurricane Maria made landfall. Todays hearing will review the response in Energy Recovery efforts in the wake of the storms that will help us begin to understand what went right and what went wrong. What lessons can be learned and how we as a risk and identify gaps so when the next hurricane hits we will be better prepared. As a result of Hurricane Harvey more than 275,000 customers lost power in texas and severe flooding affected supplies and fuel. Compounding the response to challenges in Energy
Of researchers are continuously keeping watch on this change one that could ultimately alter the environment for all living things. Dr. Tans we use the atmosphere as a diagnostic to monitor that the earth is really doing what we hope it is doing. Narrator but the atmosphere does not just trap heat, it moves it around the world and together with the oceans shapes earths climate and weather patterns. One powerful example of this is the Tropical Cyclone, more commonly known in the United States as the hurricane. Dr. Kerry emanuel has spent much of his career trying to understand these lethal storms and the larger role they might play in regulating climate. Theres something rather unexpected thats turned up from research that hurricanes may have a profound effect on the climate. Narrator both of these studies offer us deeper insight into the complicated everchanging, active system that is the outermost layer of our planet the atmosphere. All around the world scientists from the National Oc
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Doing what we hope it is doing. Narrator but the atmosphere does not just trap heat, it moves it around the world and together with the oceans shapes earths climate and weather patterns. One powerful example of this is the Tropical Cyclone, more commonly known in the United States as the hurricane. Dr. Kerry emanuel has spent much of his career trying to understand these lethal storms and the larger role they might play in regulating climate. Theres something rather unexpected thats turned up from research that hurricanes may have a profound effect on the climate. Narrator both of these studies offer us deeper insight into the complicated everchanging, active system that is the outermost layer of our planet the atmosphere. All around the world scientists from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration commonly known as noaa are monitoring trace gases in the atmosphere. One of their findings is that Carbon Dioxide is increasing due to the burning of fossil fuels on earth an increas