steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
I'd want to line in California as much as I.d wnat to live in Australia. Not very much.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered the country's three remaining nuclear power stations to keep operating until mid-April, as the energy crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine hurts the economy. Originally Germany planned to phase out all three by the end of this year. Mr Scholz's order overruled the Greens in his coalition, who wanted two plants kept on standby, to be used if needed. After relying so heavily on Russian gas Germany is now scrambling to maintain sufficient reserves for the winter. The crisis has also prompted it to restart mothballed coal-fired power stations, though the plan is to phase out coal in the drive for green energy.
You remind me of these people. You could be right, but you are doing such a shitty job of actually presenting the case. All you like to do is shit on people, call them deluded, cultish, etc...ish.Germany is keeping its nuclear plants running for the short term;
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered the country's three remaining nuclear power stations to keep operating until mid-April, as the energy crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine hurts the economy. Originally Germany planned to phase out all three by the end of this year. Mr Scholz's order overruled the Greens in his coalition, who wanted two plants kept on standby, to be used if needed. After relying so heavily on Russian gas Germany is now scrambling to maintain sufficient reserves for the winter. The crisis has also prompted it to restart mothballed coal-fired power stations, though the plan is to phase out coal in the drive for green energy.
BBC
"Green energy" (windmills and solar) is a bust but that won't stop the deluded from banging on about it.
Not to mention that many folks view nuclear, have always viewed nuclear, as "green energy".You remind me of these people. You could be right, but you are doing such a shitty job of actually presenting the case. All you like to do is shit on people, call them deluded, cultish, etc...ish.Germany is keeping its nuclear plants running for the short term;
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered the country's three remaining nuclear power stations to keep operating until mid-April, as the energy crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine hurts the economy. Originally Germany planned to phase out all three by the end of this year. Mr Scholz's order overruled the Greens in his coalition, who wanted two plants kept on standby, to be used if needed. After relying so heavily on Russian gas Germany is now scrambling to maintain sufficient reserves for the winter. The crisis has also prompted it to restart mothballed coal-fired power stations, though the plan is to phase out coal in the drive for green energy.
BBC
"Green energy" (windmills and solar) is a bust but that won't stop the deluded from banging on about it.
To be fair, that's only because it's by far the least damaging to the environment of all electricity generation technologies.Not to mention that many folks view nuclear, have always viewed nuclear, as "green energy".You remind me of these people. You could be right, but you are doing such a shitty job of actually presenting the case. All you like to do is shit on people, call them deluded, cultish, etc...ish.Germany is keeping its nuclear plants running for the short term;
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered the country's three remaining nuclear power stations to keep operating until mid-April, as the energy crisis sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine hurts the economy. Originally Germany planned to phase out all three by the end of this year. Mr Scholz's order overruled the Greens in his coalition, who wanted two plants kept on standby, to be used if needed. After relying so heavily on Russian gas Germany is now scrambling to maintain sufficient reserves for the winter. The crisis has also prompted it to restart mothballed coal-fired power stations, though the plan is to phase out coal in the drive for green energy.
BBC
"Green energy" (windmills and solar) is a bust but that won't stop the deluded from banging on about it.
More bad news: The IPCC predictions completely ignore methane hydrates. Not enough is known to make reasonable predictions so they are completely omitted--but the high end estimates of the problem make it worse than the high range estimates for CO2 issues.The New York Times recently published a long report on climate change.
Good news: This century's temperature rise (currently 1.2°C) was once forecast as 4-5° worst-case, but is now forecast to be only 2-3°C. This is due to global commitments by Europe, U.S., China and other countries, and due to falling prices of solar panels and batteries, and due to increased production of electric vehicles, etc. (The article gives only slight mention of nuclear power — "Greta Thunberg, the unyielding face of climate alarm, recently affirmed her support for at least existing nuclear power ... [the U.S.] climate bill ... included support for nuclear power" — but I hope discussion goes beyond yet another redundant iteration of anti-renewable screedings.)
Bad news: Even a 2-3°C rise is a lot. “For me, what we are witnessing at the present level of warming, it is already challenging the limits to adaptation for humans,” says Fahad Saeed of Climate Analytics.
The climate crisis has reached a “really bleak moment”, one of the world’s leading climate scientists has said, after a slew of major reports laid bare how close the planet is to catastrophe. the world was coming “very, very close to irreversible changes … time is really running out very, very fast”. The UN environment agency’s report found there was “no credible pathway to 1.5C in place” and that “woefully inadequate” progress on cutting carbon emissions means the only way to limit the worst impacts of the climate crisis is a “rapid transformation of societies”. Current pledges for action by 2030, even if delivered in full, would mean a rise in global heating of about 2.5C, a level that would condemn the world to catastrophic climate breakdown
I’m not in Santa Monica today, I’m in the SF Valley where it’s a catastrophic 80f today. We need a rapid transformation of society to get the temp down to 79.5f. Stat.You forget to mention the temperature in Santa Monica today.
How's the water supply?I’m not in Santa Monica today, I’m in the SF Valley where it’s a catastrophic 80f today. We need a rapid transformation of society to get the temp down to 79.5f. Stat.You forget to mention the temperature in Santa Monica today.
Seems good, had a shower, washed two cars, topped up the swimming pool.How's the water supply?I’m not in Santa Monica today, I’m in the SF Valley where it’s a catastrophic 80f today. We need a rapid transformation of society to get the temp down to 79.5f. Stat.You forget to mention the temperature in Santa Monica today.
How high is your dwelling above sea level?
It’s not so much the purchase price - any old welfare millionaire can afford that. But have you checked today’s insurance costs?My house is at least 600ft above sea level. I don’t think I can move much higher. Id actually like a beachfront house in Malibu but for some strange reason these houses are millions of dollars. What kind of fool is going to pay that kind of money for a property that is going to be underwater in a few months?
Oh no! if we don’t know the situation in Santa Monica how can we possibly assess the global climate??I’m not in Santa Monica today, I’m in the SF Valley where it’s a catastrophic 80f today. We need a rapid transformation of society to get the temp down to 79.5f. Stat.You forget to mention the temperature in Santa Monica today.