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CUBA’s POOR Populations – at Greater Climate Change Risk . . .

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Climate Vulnerability and Readiness

The poor disproportionately face climate risks such as sea level rise, increases in temperature and more erratic rainfall, often experienced as more frequent and extreme weather events such as storms, floods, and droughts. Because the poor are more exposed and sensitive to such impacts and generally have lower capacity to adapt, they are morevulnerable to climate change.
Their vulnerability makes them less resilient to the impacts of climate change. Supporting the inclusion of the poor in planning and implementing adaptation actions can enable them to become more ready to adapt to climate change and reduce poverty.

Cuba embarks on a 100-year plan to protect itself from climate change | Science | AAAS

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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/cuba-embarks-100-year-plan-protect-itself-climate-change

On its deadly run through the Caribbean last September, Hurricane Irma lashed northern Cuba, inundating coastal settlements and scouring away vegetation. The powerful storm dealt Havana only a glancing blow; even so, 10-meter waves pummeled El Malecón, the city’s seaside promenade, and ravaged stately but decrepit buildings in the capital’s historic district. “There was great destruction,” says Dalia Salabarría Fernández, a marine biologist here at the National Center for Protected Areas (CNAP).

As the flood waters receded, she says, “Cuba learned a very important lesson.” With thousands of kilometers of low-lying coast and a location right in the path of Caribbean hurricanes, which many believe are intensifying because of climate change, the island nation must act fast to gird against future disasters.

 

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CUBA: Four-Year Drought Forces Cuba to Find Ways to Build Resilience – Cuba | ReliefWeb

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Santa Rosa council considers requirement for new homes to be independent of natural gas

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https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8899687-181/santa-rosa-council-considers-requirement

Santa Rosa council considers requirement
for new homes to be independent of natural
gas
Santa Rosa may soon require that new homes be equipped to operate without natural gas,
a shift city leaders hope could cut carbon emissions and lend momentum to greenbuilding
designs gaining favor after last year’s destructive wildres.
The City Council late last month directed sta
members to research and draft an “allelectric-ready”

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Definition: Resilience

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Definition: Resilience

In the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Programme, resilience is defined as “the ability of a system or organisation to withstand and recover from adversity”.

A resilient organisation is one that is still able to achieve its core objectives in the face of adversity through a combination of measures.

Physical protection may make up an important part of resilience, but it is not the only factor. Resilience is also underpinned by good design of infrastructure networks, effective emergency response, business continuity planning, and recovery arrangements.

In the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Programme, resilience is defined as “the ability of a system or organisation to withstand and recover from adversity”.

A resilient organisation is one that is still able to achieve its core objectives in the face of adversity through a combination of measures.

Physical protection may make up an important part of resilience, but it is not the only factor. Resilience is also underpinned by good design of infrastructure networks, effective emergency response, business continuity planning, and recovery arrangements. 

US Navy’s Newest Warships Take To The Seas – HistoryInOrbit.com

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http://www.historyinorbit.com/us-navys-newest-warships-take-to-the-seas-fb/?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=LAZ_HIO-Desktop-US-NewNavy-D4&utm_term=$section_name$&obOrigUrl=true

1. Littoral Combat Ships – Independence Class

People have always wanted to build things larger, faster, and stronger than what they had before; the military world is no exception to this trend. Since ancient times, having a strong and well-organized navy has been crucial for any world power to maintain its position. As a result, thousands of powerful battleships have been built by different countries over the

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Directed Energy Weapon and Electronic Warfare Relevant Patents:

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https://www.directedenergyweapons.net/p/patents.html

Directed Energy Weapon and Electronic Warfare Relevant Patents:
 

Method and Device for Producing a Desired Brain State
Patent #: US6488617 B1
Publication date: Dec 3, 2002
Filing date: Oct 13, 2000

Abstract:

A method and device for the production of a desired brain state in an individual contain means for monitoring and analyzing the brain state while a set of one or more magnets produce fields that alter this state. A computational system alters various parameters of the magnetic fields in order to close the gap between the actual and desired brain state. This feedback process operates continuously until the gap is minimized and/or removed.

 

Pulsative Manipulation of Nervous Systems
Patent #: US6091994 A
Publication date: Jul 18, 2000
Filing date: Aug 31, 1998

Abstract:

Method and apparatus for manipulating the nervous system by imparting subliminal pulsative cooling to the subject’s skin at a frequency that is suitable for the excitation of a sensory resonance. At present, two major sensory resonances are known, with frequencies near 1/2 Hz and 2.4 Hz. The 1/2 Hz sensory resonance causes relaxation, sleepiness, ptosis of the eyelids, a tonic smile, a “knot” in the stomach, or sexual excitement, depending on the precise frequency used. The 2.4 Hz resonance causes the slowing of certain cortical activities, and is characterized by a large increase of the time needed to silently count backward from 100 to 60, with the eyes closed. The invention can be used by the general public for inducing relaxation, sleep, or sexual excitement, and clinically for the control and perhaps a treatment of tremors, seizures, and autonomic system disorders such as panic attacks. Embodiments shown are a pulsed fan to impart subliminal cooling pulses to the subject’s skin, and a silent device which induces periodically varying flow past the subject’s skin, the flow being induced by pulsative rising warm air plumes that are caused by a thin resistive wire which is periodically heated by electric current pulses.

 

Multifunctional Radio Frequency Directed Energy System
Patent #: US7629918 B2
Publication date: Dec 8, 2009
Filing date: Dec 15, 2005

Abstract:

An RFDE system includes an RFDE transmitter and at least one RFDE antenna. The RFDE transmitter and antenna direct high power electromagnetic energy towards a target sufficient to cause high energy damage or disruption of the target. The RFDE system further includes a targeting system for locating the target. The targeting system includes a radar transmitter and at least one radar antenna for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic energy to locate the target. The RFDE system also includes an antenna pointing system for aiming the at least one RFDE antenna at the target based on the location of the target as ascertained by the targeting system. Moreover, at least a portion of the radar transmitter or the at least one radar antenna is integrated within at least a portion of the RFDE transmitter or the at least one RFDE antenna.

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Directed Energy Weapons: US Army Looks to Strike Foes with Lightning Weapon

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https://www.directedenergyweapons.net/2016/01/US-army-looks-to-strike-foes-with-lightning-weapon.html

US Army Looks to Strike Foes with Lightning Weapon

According to several sources publishing articles in 2012, the US Army is officially developing directed energy weapons aimed at striking targets with lightning bolts…

Army Looks to Strike Foes with Lightning Weapon ~ LiveScience.com ~ 2012 Article

A U.S. Army lab is testing how lasers can create an energized plasma channel in the air — an invisible pathway for electricity to follow. The laser-guided lightning weapon could precisely hit targets such as enemy tanks or unexploded roadside bombs, because such targets represent better conductors for electricity than the ground.

Army researchers used an “ultra-short-pulse laser of modest energy” that keeps the laser beam focused through its own intensity. The laser’s electro-magnetic field can harvest electrons from air molecules to create the plasma pathway for electricity to follow.

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U.S. Army Announces Latest Toy: Lightning Laser Gun ~ VentureBeat.com ~ 2012 articleThis is how it works: a very brief but incredibly intense laser beam paints the target. By intense, the army means 50 billion watts of optical power … about 500 million times more powerful than the light bulb illuminating your room.

By some trick of physics, very intense laser beams focus themselves in air. And when they are intensive enough, laser beams generate an electro-magnetic field “strong enough to rip electrons off of air molecules.”

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Directed energy weapons can do quite a lot… I know that many secrets lie in electromagnetics when it comes to future technologies and methodologies. Lightning directed energy weapons isn’t even 1% of it…