August 6 was anything but a bucolic August afternoon. After as much as six inches of rain fell in three hours, a flash flood gathered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mobilized through networked climate systems, Hadley Cells, the Coriolis Effect, Kelvin Waves, and the Walker Circulation, the flash flood destroyed property and disrupted commerce. More and more network induced flash floods are materializing across the globe, leaving some scrambling to minimize the spontaneous assemblies of weather.
SUMMARY:
We, the Department of Lobby Energy (the DOLE), announces a 90–day finding on two petitions to list American coal (Ploratus Carbo Sacrilegus) (coal) as an endangered economic subspecies and designate critical habitat outside the Fossil Fuels EN of 2005, as amended (Act).
Although not listed as a species, coal is currently listed as threatened within the broader listing of Fossil Fuels. Based on our review, we find that current petitions present substantial scientific information indicating that coal may warrant listing as endangered. One of the petitions also requested the adding of nuclear (Absque Casus) as a subspecies in fossil fuels; however, we view this petition as without merit. With the publication of this notice, we are initiating a review of the status of coal to determine if listing coal as an endangered subspecies is warranted.