Global Warming News

[EddieWalker]

For those who don't want to believe there is a conspiracy, what about incompetencey? Anybody hear about the UN's claim that the glaciers are melting in the Himalaya's?

You're really gonna love this. World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown - Times Online

Over and over again, when the science is examined, it turns out that there really wasn't anything done to support their claims.

At some point, it becomes a question of when is enough enough?

Eddie

 

[IH3444]

What??? I'm Flabbergasseded!!! That article is from a right-wing nut job paper.......OH NO, I'm wrong again, it's from the Times in the UK!!! Great Jumping Horn Toads, the glaciers are bigger than originally reported!

 

[Ken45101]

Why not base scientific conclusions on unfounded speculation, after all, people believe Al Gore knows what he is talking about.

Gore is as credible as his predecessor, vice president Spiro T. Agnew "I am not a thief" (yes he was.)

Maybe there is something in the water at the VP mansion.

 

[SpringHollow]

A damning article for sure, the one about the glaciers. But i also have seen what is happening to the glaciers in Europe - they are receding at an alarming rate. As I keep saying, this stuff is complicated.

Ken

 

[Pilot]

There was a recent study that reported that any glacial retreat in the Himayalas was due to soot, not global warming. The soot on the snow absorbs the heat from the sun.

Diesels make a lot of soot. Europe uses lots of diesels. Ksimolo says glaciers are retreating in the Alps. Why does it have to be due to global warming? Could it be that something else is causing the glaciers to recede in the Alps? Something like soot?

 

[FallbrookFarmer]

My understanding about the success of the French Nuke program was because they standardized on their plants. They have a limited number of plant sizes. I think it was three, small, medium and large, if you will. So they had commonality of parts, design and operation. What I have read is that a US plant operator is licensed, if that is the right word, to run a given reactor. They are very likely NOT licensed to run the reactor right next to "theirs" because it will be different.

US Nuke plants are custom built one offs. Which of course costs more money to design, get approved, build and run. And Nukes are so expensive due to the required safety systems required for the reactors that are being used.

The pebble bed reactors look like they would be MUCH safer, supposedly melt down is impossible, and much cheaper to build and run. I read a proposal to put one in Alaska somewhere. Their biggest operational expense was going to be security. In this case this is a smaller reactor to provide power for a small town in the middle of now where.

Pebble Bed Reactors aka PBRs, , no it is not a beer in this case, Pebble bed reactor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Later,
Dan

When we had our last wildfire here in San Diego,and the power went out, the Navy offered a nuclear carrier,which could produce all the power we would need ,no problem, just plug it into the grid.
Along those lines, I wonder why sailors, who are obviously living in close proximity to those nukes aboard the ships, aren't glowing when they go on shore.
Perhaps a partial solution to the NIMBY problem,about having a nuke, could be answered by having a movable nuke.

 

[WTA]

The Navy has done that before. Before Nukes even. I was on two carriers and a battleship in the 80's and several times we supplied power to cities we were in. Twice after volcanoes erupted, in Japan and the PI we supplied power when there was nothing left of the grid at all in the city till they got back up and running.

Oh I read one post about australia having a hot season. Duh, It's summer down there right now.

 

[SpringHollow]

Ksimolo says glaciers are retreating in the Alps. Why does it have to be due to global warming?

Hi Pilot,

I did not say it was global warming. I do say things are complicated. There could be many reasons, global warming is only one possibility.

Ken

 

[SpringHollow]

Oh I read one post about australia having a hot season. Duh, It's summer down there right now.

Hi WTA,

I know someone in Australia and they have had an extreme drought in their region for many years now.

Ken

 

[WTA]

Most of Australia is always in extreme drought. It's a desert. So are we where I live but farmers have turned it all into irrigated farmland, like me, and some of them can't understand why their wells are drying up. It's easier to blame global warming than to blame themselves for pulling more and more water out of the ground in a desert.