global warming

[Jim_Rob]

Hey, that’s me! That’s just what I look like!

[ivan]

@BluntRM

Source it, but the problem will still remain: What can be done with a spent nuclear fuel rod?

Can’t we put it to good use by placing it in the Simpsons opening sequence?

[ivan]

@iridemymuni

see this is how it works.

in a nuclear power plant, the only thing it gives off is heat, and nuclear waste. the nuclear waste is always controlled and never allowed to reach the “outside world”, it is then dumped into big “bunkers” deep underground where the radiation cannot escape.

in a coal power plant, it uses coal, right? and the coal is not 100% pure coal, it will have some impurities, one of these being radioactive material. Even if the concentration of radioactive material is only 0.001%, the millions and millions of tonnes used adds up to a substantial amount of radioactive material which is released into the atmosphere/environment.

the spent fuel rods go deeeeeeeeeeep underground and stored so that the radiation could never escape. personally i wouldnt mind if they had the bunker in my back yard, it’s pretty safe.

That’s in theory, but in practice they just dump it in the Irish Sea in containers that are supposed to last for centuries and which start leaking after a few years. Nothing ever goes the way it’s supposed to.

[ivan]

@yoopers

They tell me there that life in a nuclear power station control room can be described as hours upon hours of sheer boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

I’m very much inclined to believe that after watching almost all of the Simpsons episodes. Homer is always sleeping at work: boredom. But sometimes the boss comes with an inspection or Homer spills his soup on the control panel: terror.

[pkplonker]

unicycles wont be affected so why worry?!?!

[monkeyman]

@pkplonker

unicycles wont be affected so why worry?!?!

It’s good to know that if global warming causes chaos throughout the world, and destroys all life on the planet, our unicycles will still be ok.

[johnfoss]

@monkeyman

I’m against global warming for two reasons:

1. It doesn’t exist.
2. It takes focus away from real environmental problems.

If I had to pick my experts between you and Al Gore, I’m afraid Gore seems to have the better numbers. Have you seen his film? I thought it was very well done. Check it out with an open mind (he’s not like Michael Moore or anything) and see if you learn anything new.

According to what I remember from the film, the current numbers are not just rising, they are spiking way beyond any known trend of temperature fluxuations known to science. And the spike is still curving upward. If someone has numbers to suggest otherwise, I’m curious to hear about them, and their source.

[JusticeZero]

Well, the bright thing about global warming projections is that they’re based on existing carbon emissions. We’re on the verge of hitting the peak oil crisis when oil prices start curving drastically upwards due to the exhaustion of the economically-recoverable deposits faster than the lag time to get alternative energies on the market. We -can’t- keep producing carbon emissions at the current rate because we’re about to run out of fuel to do it with.

Mind you, that may not be comforting.

[timtimtimmy]

@JusticeZero

Well, the bright thing about global warming projections is that they’re based on existing carbon emissions. We’re on the verge of hitting the peak oil crisis when oil prices start curving drastically upwards due to the exhaustion of the economically-recoverable deposits faster than the lag time to get alternative energies on the market. We -can’t- keep producing carbon emissions at the current rate because we’re about to run out of fuel to do it with.

Mind you, that may not be comforting.

Yes! so that means the bureaucrats have to stop dragging there ass and do southing like pot money in to wind turbines and hydrogen card s or we are going to be back in the caves like 1000s years ago o and it will be hotter lol

[mscalisi]

@johnfoss

If I had to pick my experts between you and Al Gore, I’m afraid Gore seems to have the better numbers. Have you seen his film? I thought it was very well done. Check it out with an open mind (he’s not like Michael Moore or anything) and see if you learn anything new.

According to what I remember from the film, the current numbers are not just rising, they are spiking way beyond any known trend of temperature fluxuations known to science. And the spike is still curving upward. If someone has numbers to suggest otherwise, I’m curious to hear about them, and their source.

According to this:

Climate change

about 75% of scientists think global warming has to do with human activity.

I don’t understand what makes people think that we cannot affect our environment with all the stuff our machines spit out.

…and what if humans are NOT the cause of global warming. …are we sure…really really sure…absolutely unconditionally positive!!! I think we should err on the side of safety when talking about something with such high consequences.

[headstone]

My view exactly. Sure, I admit the earth might be going through a warm spell. But like I think I already said (sorry if I’m repeating) in several years or so it’ll most likely start cooling off again.

Also, “global warming” isn’t really “global”. Didn’t Siberia/ Rushia have an unusually extreme cold winter last year? And South Africa had an unusually long snow, with snowstorms in places that didn’t normally get snow. Even here in Montana, it got down to -15 F middle of october. Which is pretty cold for so early in the fall. Call that ‘global’ warming?

Or the earth might explode in exactly 10 years and kill us all!!! According to Al Gore.

Short term cold spells in certain areas have nothing to do with global climate change.

There’s a lot of denial happening here, but it doesn’t matter because none of us have enough power to do anything about it anyway.

[Borges]

@headstone

… it doesn’t matter because none of us have enough power to do anything about it anyway.

We have to live with being just one out of billions of people, but you can always do what’s in your power.

[Naomi]

@timtimtimmy

Yes! so that means the bureaucrats have to stop dragging there ass and do southing like pot money in to wind turbines and hydrogen card s or we are going to be back in the caves like 1000s years ago o and it will be hotter lol

Best get started building some more caves.

Nao

[Jim_Rob]

@mscalisi

According to this:

Climate change - Wikipedia

about 75% of scientists think global warming has to do with human activity.

In my experience that number is way low, it’s more like 99+%. Like I said, even our village/national idiot believes global warming is caused by humans, he (or more properly his manipulators) just isn’t going to do anything substantive about it.

[thejdw]

@forrestunifreak

How little is understood STILL. I’m sure people believed in global cooling then just as strongly as people believe in global warming now.

The earth will probablly start cooling down again in 20-30 years and then global cooling will be the new thing.

I think they will cancell each other out with the word getting hot and cold at the same time the result should be the earth being warm.
Also I heard somthing about the sun going through a cool stage has anyone got any more info on this?

[thejdw]

@monkeyman

It’s good to know that if global warming causes chaos throughout the world, and destroys all life on the planet, our unicycles will still be ok.

Yes we shall all go to a planet rserved for unicyclists:p

[Jethro]

@Jim_Rob

In my experience that number is way low, it’s more like 99+%. Like I said, even our village/national idiot believes global warming is caused by humans, he (or more properly his manipulators) just isn’t going to do anything substantive about it.

But Rush Limbaugh says it is due to methane gas produced by cattle, and if anyone should know a thing or two about cow farts, it is Rush Limbaugh.

[forrestunifreak]

@johnfoss

If I had to pick my experts between you and Al Gore, I’m afraid Gore seems to have the better numbers. .

If Al Gore told me the sky was blue, I would have doubts…

[yoopers]

@Jethro

But Rush Limbaugh says it is due to methane gas produced by cattle, and if anyone should know a thing or two about cow farts, it is Rush Limbaugh.

Okay, Billy-Bob. You’ve forced me to do it. I must revive the story about my proposed senior engineering design project in college. It was right along these lines.

I wanted to determine a factor for the bovine methane gas emmision contribution to the enviroment as a base for further research on global warming. My design would be an air sampling device to hang on the back end of a cow that would take periodic air samples for analysis. I was going to call the device my Flatulated Air Recovery Terminal or F.A.R.T.

[Jethro]

^hilarious!

So what did you find out?