New research on sea ice

[Tony Taylor]

Firstly the MGI Vesta factory on the Isle of Wight is producing 80 metre long wind turbine blades and they are the world leaders nice one for the island

The problem with UK deep mined Coal was 1 it was heavily subsidised and extremely expensive and it wasn't the dust that was the problem it was the high sulphur content which we didn't have the flu cleaning systems the deal with why I do not know I don't see taking a water soluble acidic gas out of a exhaust flow is a difficult problem to be solved but obviously it was

A lot of money was spent on UK power stations in 90s retrofitting desulphurisation plants but still being shut down.

[robpage]

My own feeling was that the price of deep mine coal was too expensive and the change over to oil seems to have not improved things especially when the price of oil went through the roof . I think that the United Kingdom safety record on nuclear power plants is notably brilliant .

[Captain Kong]

Hi Rob
didn't Sellafield have a big blow out of radiation a few years ago, and polluted sheep as far away as Wales?

[robpage]

Sellafield previously Windscale had a serious fire in 1956 rated 5/7 in severity , It had an advanced gas cooled reactor as research project , the on line power station was next door at Calder Hall

I don't recall welsh sheep being perverted though , just strontium 90 in milk

[Chris Allman]

It was the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 that caused the radiation fall out over North Wales. There is a very good article on it HERE

[Captain Kong]

In 1990 , my son worked as a Doctor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. in Seattle, WA, in the States,
He worked on the Helicopter Pilot, Anatoli Grishchenko who was dropping concrete on the Nuclear site in Chernobyl , he developed Leukemia from the Radiation but even after blood transfusians etc, he died, Olga Korbet the little Gymnast from the 1976 Olympics also attended the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center she was OK and now lives in New Jersey.
Cheers
Brian

[j.sabourn]

In general they say in Physics every action has a reaction. If you blow your nose you get what’s up there either on the pavement or in your handkerchief. If you punch someone in the eye, chances are they are going to finish up with a black eye, if you fire a weapon at someone and are a good marksman someone in all likelihood is going to be dead. As a kid if you rubbed a bar of iron long enough you finished up magnetising it , which appeared to be magic. So everything has a reaction to any action we take. How come when setting off nuclear explosions underground and under the sea bed , which is going to upset the earths structure more than most people could ever imagine , we hear no reports of any reaction. I would rather blame any reports on present adverse bad weather made by scientists who had the ability to study the after effects of such in regard to what people say are changing weather patterns. The French and North Korea being the two most recent hooligans in this field. JWS

[robpage]

I see it as simply as if you can blame someone or something , you can always find a lawyer to sue , so nobody , especially governments ever admits anything

[happy daze john in oz]

Here in Victoria we were burning 'brown coal' known in Ireland as Peat.

Ireland has been burning it since cocky was in the egg but here the 'protectionists' said it is bad for the atmosphere and your health. Any one living within 5 klm will develop TB, but so far no evidence of that after some 50 years of using it.
Now in Ireland they still burn it made into bricketes and it does very well.

[Rodney Mills]

"Oct. 9, 2018 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, a new assessment on minimizing global warming, and multiple IIASA researchers were involved in its production.
"The report was approved by the IPCC at a meeting on 6 October in Incheon in South Korea and highlights the strong benefits to humanity and ecosystems of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, rather than 2°C. Governments will meet in Poland in December for the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to review the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change, and the special report will provide important scientific input.
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"The world is currently on track for 3-4°C of warming, far off the Paris Agreement targets. If climate change is limited to 1.5°C, rather than 2°C, the global sea level rise would be 10cm lower, hundreds of million fewer people would be exposed to severe heatwaves, ocean acidification would be reduced, protecting the ecosystems, and irreversible impacts on polar ice sheets would be avoided.
“Already we see the serious consequences of a 1°C warming, such as increased extreme weather events, sea level rise and effects on important terrestrial and oceanic systems. However, the report also shows that at 1.5°C and beyond some systems would be reaching the limits of adaptation, for example, the loss of 70-90% of tropical coral reefs by mid-century under the 1.5°C scenario, with a total loss under 2°C scenario,” says Reinhard Mechler, deputy program director of the Risk and Resilience Program.
"IIASA Energy Program Director Keywan Riahi says: “The report clearly shows that achieving the 1.5°C target is still possible, if rapid and stringent action is introduced. It will however not come for free as substantial upscaling of investments into clean energy by more than a factor of four is needed by 2050 compared to 2015.”
"Such actions would cover almost every aspect of life, including the use of clean energy sources such as renewables, sustainable agriculture and diet changes, CO2 removal technologies and energy efficiency. Emissions will need to fall by about 45% by 2030 compared to 2010 levels.
"In support of the IPCC assessment, IIASA signed a memorandum of understanding with the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) and the IPCC Working Group III to develop and host the IAMC Scenario Explorer, a database of emissions pathways which critically underpin the conclusions of the Special Report.
"The Australian government has backed coal-fired power, despite the recommendations of a major report on climate change.
"Phasing out coal is considered crucial to limiting global warming to within 1.5C, as set out in the UN report released yesterday.
"Australia's deputy prime minister has said the country should "absolutely" continue to use and exploit its coal."


As I seem to be the lone "canary in the mine" I thought I would temporally change my Avatar to salute all you naysayers on global warming. If the warnings correct and we could all live long enough, I could have beach front property and Y'all down-under could have a nice big sand-patch for the grandkiddies to play in.