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Because they and the general populace are more afraid of anything with Nuclear in the title than they are of global warming.
We are as little a 25 to 30 years away from nuclear fusion power plants, and much sooner if decent funding was allocated. Fusion power will be i) almost limitless ii) requiriing only miniscule material inputs and iii) clean.
Why don't the AGW/clean technology crowd ever mention this, why are they pushing us down the blind alley of solar and geothermal wishful thinking.
We are as little a 25 to 30 years away from nuclear fusion power plants,
For a more indepth read on how Climate Science has evolved check out the following reference.
So many different sets of information, research, models and analysis to sharpen up the current understandings.
Parts 1 and 2 are also very interesting reads.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/two-centuries-climate-science-3.html
CO2 might be a significant risk to the natural environment.Because they and the general populace are more afraid of anything with Nuclear in the title than they are of global warming.
Green dissembling Rumpole. Name one Greens-approved 'proven' technology capable of providing baseload power generation, for industry, for the human journey into deep space....Proven technologies are already here...
Scientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the atmosphere.
The methane has been trapped by ice, but is able to escape as the ice melts.
Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, the researchers say this ancient gas could have a significant impact on climate change.
Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after CO2 and levels are rising after a few years of stability.
There are many sources of the gas around the world, some natural and some man-made, such as landfill waste disposal sites and farm animals.
Tracking methane to these various sources is not easy.
But the researchers on the new Arctic project, led by Katey Walter Anthony from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks (UAF), were able to identify long-stored gas by the ratio of different isotopes of carbon in the methane molecules.
Green dissembling Rumpole. Name one Greens-approved 'proven' technology capable of providing baseload power generation, for industry, for the human journey into deep space.
Take another look, fusion power is an advanced scientific project. It's later than you think. If only it were funded adequately, fusion would provide baseload power, and soon. Unless that's a problem?
Country towns told to brace for climate change
A population expert says the effects of climate change will not necessarily decimate rural communities if the right plans are laid.
Professor Graeme Hugo is the director of the new Population and Migration Research Centre at the University of Adelaide.
He says annual rainfall is already declining in south-eastern parts of the country but says rural communities can survive if governments start preparing now.
Just saw this on BBC
Arctic melt releasing ancient methane
Link please.
Regarding isotopes, I recall reading somewhere that the isotope signature of atmospheric methane had a more tropical source... will have to dig up the source
Link please.
Regarding isotopes, I recall reading somewhere that the isotope signature of atmospheric methane had a more tropical source... will have to dig up the source
Link please.
Regarding isotopes, I recall reading somewhere that the isotope signature of atmospheric methane had a more tropical source... will have to dig up the source
It does. The earth has moved its axis a few times since inception.
All in "The Sixth Extinction" really should get it out and have a read Wayne.
Russische Wissenschaftler melden: Globale Erwärmung geht zu Ende!
Die globale Erwärmung geht zu Ende: In den nächsten Jahren wird die Temperatur auf dem ganzen Planeten fallen, wenn auch die Abkühlung einen schonenden Charakter haben wird. Diesen Schluss zogen die russischen Wissenschaftler aus der Physikuniversität der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Der Prozess des allgemeinen Temperaturrückgangs hat laut Forschung bereits begonnen. Nach einer Spitze im Jahre 2005 ging nun die durchschnittliche Temperatur auf der Erde um 0,3 Grad auf das Niveau der 1996-1997er Jahre zurück.
Laut den Wissenschaftlern werden die globalen Temperaturen bis 2015 um weitere 0,15 Grad sinken, was dem Klima der früheren 1980er Jahre entsprechen würde.
Global warming is coming to an end: In the coming years the temperature over the entire planet will fall and the cooling will provide a character of relief. This is the conclusion reached by Russian scientists from the Physics University of the Russian Academy of Science.
The process of a general temperature decrease has already begun, according to the research. After having peaked in 2005, the average temperature on Earth is now returning to the level of the 1996-1997 years, 0.3 °C lower.
According to the scientists, global temperatures will fall another 0.15 °C by 2015, which corresponds to the climate of the early 1980s.”
...Not sure how a CO2 tax will fix this...
I've long thought this but have been ridiculed for suggesting it in the past.<<SEA levels are indeed rising - but is the draining of water on land, not climate change, the main culprit? >>
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