Climate Change News

  • Thread starter Thread starter Theo520
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
If only they had left their nuclear plants running, they wouldn’t be backed into this corner.
 
California is planning to shut down their last nuclear reactor (Diablo Canyon). One can only wonder what their plan is to replace its 2.3 gigawatts of (always available) power. In all likelihood they will have to add gas fired generating plants to make up the loss. Ah, green progress. This is in line with the Germans closing coal fired plants and replacing them with wood burning plants.
 
Worries? What worries? California has no worries. They burned down half their state and then let the rains [rains?what rains? they have a drought] cause mud slides it all went down hill … literally.
 
(may be off topic, but I don’t think we are supposed to “correct” reporters…)
 
petra22 said:
(may be off topic, but I don’t think we are supposed to “correct” reporters…)
Click to expand...
So ‘fake news’ should just be consumed?

Is it that the reporters are our betters, and any deception is for our own good?
 
Reporters have college degrees in … what … exactly.

They skated and skimmed through, and actually don’t KNOW anything.
 
Not defending “reporters”, just stating a politically correct slant on a rampant situation…
also being sarcastic…
 
Last edited:
petra22 said:
Not defending “reporters”, just stating a politically correct slant on a rampant situation…

also being sarcastic…
Click to expand...
Yea, you forgot to finish with “/sarc”

There should be a sarcasm emoji
😁
 
Last edited:
It occurs to me that this approach, which seems ludicrous on its face, is quite possibly the most serious concern faced by those who oppose the theory of AGW. If scientific concerns are left to the courts to decide I fear we could be in serious trouble.

wattsupwiththat.com

Climate Lawsuits Piling Up

Guest essay by Eric Worrall For years many fossil fuel companies seemed content to stay quiet in the face of public vilification, but with big lawsuits looming, this strategy of avoiding public cli…
wattsupwiththat.com wattsupwiththat.com
 
Ender said:
It occurs to me that this approach, which seems ludicrous on its face, is quite possibly the most serious concern faced by those who oppose the theory of AGW. If scientific concerns are left to the courts to decide I fear we could be in serious trouble.
Click to expand...
This could go both ways.

The courts do get involved in science when chemical companies are sued, etc. It seems to work reasonably in such cases. With big tobacco I think too much of the defense research was explicitly funded by tobacco. I don’t see that with climate change, though alarmists claim skeptics are in the pockets of big OIl.

With CAGW, a good defense should be able the shred the case as conjecture on catastrophic outcomes, but it’s also very emotional. If they live long enough there are many nobel prize winners (Dyson etc) that could make a convincing case against alarmists. The offense can’t script it as with Al Gore’s movies, that are just propoganda.
 
Theo520 said:
This could go both ways.
Click to expand...
No matter how many times it goes the right way it may only have to go the wrong way once. This is an example of what we could see:

It started with a precedent-setting climate lawsuit in the summer of 2015, when 900 Dutch citizens, represented by the Urgenda Foundation, took their government to court to cut greenhouse gas emissions nationwide.

This was the first time a group of citizens sued their own government over climate change action — and won.

The lawsuit resulted in a Dutch court ordering the government to cut greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by at least 25 percent by the year of 2020 (compared to 1990 levels), forcing it to take more measures against climate change.
 
Not to disagree, but in some cases the Govt is complicit. We saw this with the EPA losing court battles to their fav enviro group and using the court decision to implement new regulations.
 
That’s a nice looking boat.

Must be boring for the crew, I doubt they get extended shore leave and a new boat doesn’t need much cleaning or maintenance. Neither can you run practice drills tied up at port.
 
I had my finger’s crossed that using molten salt would make these utility level solar plants more useful. It’s sad to see they are not performing up to promise. Not even close to meeting base load requirements in ideal weather conditions let alone in adverse ones. The Wind and Solar plants in Puerto Rico need to be rebuilt.

wattsupwiththat.com

"24-Hour Solar Energy: Molten Salt Makes It Possible"… Reality Check.

Guest skewering by David Middleton From Inside Climate News… 24-Hour Solar Energy: Molten Salt Makes It Possible, and Prices Are Falling Fast Molten salt storage in concentrated solar power p…
wattsupwiththat.com wattsupwiththat.com
 
Last edited:
Theo520 said:
The Wind and Solar plants in Puerto Rico need to be rebuilt.
Click to expand...
This is where believing or disbelieving in AGW matters. Puerto Rico will endure hurricanes again and again; what sense does it make to rebuild facilities like wind and solar plants that are so susceptible to the very conditions that destroyed those plants in the first place?

Puerto Rico is paying the cost today because they were induced (forced?) to go down the renewable energy road. The argument that there is no down side to renewable energy, once again, fails when the theory encounters the real world.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top