Climate News: part 3

[crimsonaudio]

 

[arthurdawg]

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I'm of the opinion that next gen nuclear is our best single option. Along with a backbone of renewable.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I'm of the opinion that next gen nuclear is our best single option. Along with a backbone of renewable.

New fission is amazing.

Once we get fusion down we're all set. Power will be as ubiquitous as atmospheric nitrogen. And we're *this* close.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I'm of the opinion that next gen nuclear is our best single option. Along with a backbone of renewable.

Three Mile Island set us back 50 years on that. I’m not saying it SHOULD have, but the generations who saw it (substantially) were around when we bombed Japan in 1945. Their minds already had a template on nuclear, and that (and later Chernobyl) really hit the fear sensor, not that l blame them.

 

[arthurdawg]

Three Mile Island set us back 50 years on that. I’m not saying it SHOULD have, but the generations who saw it (substantially) were around when we bombed Japan in 1945. Their minds already had a template on nuclear, and that (and later Chernobyl) really hit the fear sensor, not that l blame them.

Yes... The Chenobyl RBMK reactors were literally ticking atomic bombs... Add to that the fire in the control room at Brown's Ferry started by using a candle to assess for drafts in the basement!

The newer ones just shut themselves down, particularly the liquid sodium designs. I don't think anything is fullproof, but the margin of safety is shifted far to the favorable side.

I hope we make the leap for fusion soon... But I still think we are probably decades out for implementation. We also need to look into a superconducting network to let us transfer power from one region to another more easily. Not cheap, but such infrastructure is what we need to remain strong.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I hope we make the leap for fusion soon... But I still think we are probably decades out for implementation.

I can’t really say much here but one of my children is working for a company bringing commercial fusion online. I can’t say much as my kid can’t tell me much, but from the publicly shared documents they’re likely to have a commercial fusion reactor online before 2030…

 

[arthurdawg]

I can’t really say much here but one of my children is working for a company bringing commercial fusion online. I can’t say much as my kid can’t tell me much, but from the publicly shared documents they’re likely to have a commercial fusion reactor online before 2030…

I'll take it...

 

[crimsonaudio]

Note the date of the article.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I never thought I would ever want it to rain so much. The rivers, creeks, and lakes around here look pretty pathetic.

 

[arthurdawg]

Note the date of the article.

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Little bit of over estimation there... Oof.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Scientists do not agree that Venus was ever Earth-like. I would think Venus not having a moon is the biggest thing going against that theory. Unless it once had one, but it somehow went away.

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[Huckleberry]

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In the interest of fairness, here’s Gore’s quote: "About 10 million residents of Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades. Where will they go? Whom will they displace? What political conflicts will result? That is only one example. According to some predictions, not long after Bangladesh feels the impact, up to 60 percent of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated. Where will they go?"
However, it’s pretty clear that there’s not likely to be that kind of mass relocation of Florida residents anytime soon (though there are quite a few I’d like to see sent somewhere else).

And Florida’s population has grown about 73% since 1992. Whoever made that graphic apparently had the same math teacher as Trump.

 

[arthurdawg]

In the interest of fairness, here’s Gore’s quote: "About 10 million residents of Bangladesh will lose their homes and means of sustenance because of the rising sea level, due to global warming, in the next few decades. Where will they go? Whom will they displace? What political conflicts will result? That is only one example. According to some predictions, not long after Bangladesh feels the impact, up to 60 percent of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated. Where will they go?"
However, it’s pretty clear that there’s not likely to be that kind of mass relocation of Florida residents anytime soon (though there are quite a few I’d like to see sent somewhere else).

And Florida’s population has grown about 73% since 1992. Whoever made that graphic apparently had the same math teacher as Trump.

And while they were overly pessimistic about things... Carbon dioxide concentrations continue to rise and the strong signal from the current data and what we know about the past is that continued warming will occur for many years. I sincerely hope the worst estimates are not correct, as the scale of future climate change could still be immense.

 

[75thru79]

And while they were overly pessimistic about things... Carbon dioxide concentrations continue to rise and the strong signal from the current data and what we know about the past is that continued warming will occur for many years. I sincerely hope the worst estimates are not correct, as the scale of future climate change could still be immense.

 

[arthurdawg]

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Unfortunately yes... It is pretty fascinating what you can discern from a bunch of old rocks in terms of them locking in climate data. In the Triassic era, CO2 levels were drastically higher due to vulcanism and the equatorial temperatures hovered around 140 degrees. There are no fossils in the equatorial belt at that time due to a large dead zone there... Current levels are 425 ppm for us, and they hit 1000-2000 ppm in the Triassic. We could hit 1000 ppm by 2100 if we keep burning fossil fuels at an expanding rate. Make of it what you will, the human race has changed the face of the earth.

Heck... Read a fascinating article on nitrogen fixation the other day that noted thanks to the Haber-Bosch process we have at the minimum doubled the amount of nitrogen fixed on the planet on an annual basis.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Unfortunately yes... It is pretty fascinating what you can discern from a bunch of old rocks in terms of them locking in climate data. In the Triassic era, CO2 levels were drastically higher due to vulcanism and the equatorial temperatures hovered around 140 degrees. There are no fossils in the equatorial belt at that time due to a large dead zone there... Current levels are 425 ppm for us, and they hit 1000-2000 ppm in the Triassic. We could hit 1000 ppm by 2100 if we keep burning fossil fuels at an expanding rate. Make of it what you will, the human race has changed the face of the earth.

Heck... Read a fascinating article on nitrogen fixation the other day that noted thanks to the Haber-Bosch process we have at the minimum doubled the amount of nitrogen fixed on the planet on an annual basis.

It could have been earlier disaster without it. Of course, then there's the warmth-liberated methane in the arctic, a much more potent greenhouse gas...

 

[arthurdawg]

It could have been earlier disaster without it. Of course, then there's the warmth-liberated methane in the arctic, a much more potent greenhouse gas...

Just wait till those hydrates thaw out...