Sunday, March 20, 2011

1934 : The Big Lie | Real Science
1934 was (by far) the hottest year in US history, until USHCN and Hansen adjusted it downwards 10 years ago.
Pondering the Arctic Ocean. Part I: Climate Dynamics | Climate Etc.
There are many indicators that natural variability has a strong influence on the variability of sea ice extent on decadal to millennial timescales.
EU Referendum: Costing our nuclear future?
There is no parallel between Fukushima and Chernobyl at all, says Booker , who notes that the scaremongers have been out in force, with talk of "meltdown" and claims that the Japanese nuclear power plant emergency threatened a disaster "worse than Chernobyl".

There is, of course, says our man, no parallel with Chernobyl at all. The problem at Fukushima was not the explosion of a working nuclear reactor (all its reactors had been automatically shut down). The main problem was the lack of water to cool spent fuel rods.
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Booker makes the point that the excessive stockpiling of fuel rods at Fukushima has arisen because pressure from anti-nuclear groups has made the safe dispersal of nuclear waste so difficult. This means, in a sense, the Greens are partly responsible for the problems – not that they will ever admit it. Greens never take responsibility for anything – everything is always someone else's fault.

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