Comment on Uncertainty, risk, and (in)action by ChE
Demolishing a building isn’t an example of the precautionary principle, because it’s possible and relatively easy to search the building and be sure, or as sure as is humanly possible. Once you’ve gone...
View ArticleComment on The futility of carbon reduction? by manacker
Mark F Believe gbaikie is talking about the % of time that a solar panel generates power on average in a typical European location. Optimistically, this is around 25% for norther Europe and stated (by...
View ArticleComment on The futility of carbon reduction? by manacker
Fred Moolten No, Fred. You have not shown specific estimates of warming averted by specific mitigating actions. Please do so now (both for my benefit and for that of TonyB). Max
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty, risk, and (in)action by ChE
That’s not true, 1) because most coastal nuke plants have cooling towers, and 2) climate-driven sea level rise isn’t of the 30-meter magnitude that did Fukushima in, and even if it were, there’s time...
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Comment on Uncertainty, risk, and (in)action by ChE
This is bloody incredible: Heat waves are another serious concern, for two reasons. One, the colder the cooling water entering a reactor, the more efficient the production of electricity. And two, once...
View ArticleComment on The futility of carbon reduction? by manacker
Fred Moolten To the general request by TonyB and myself for specific actionable mitigation proposals with an estimate of how much global warming these will avert you replied that you had already posted...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty, risk, and (in)action by ChE
Not to mention the 100 year window in which to do the construction. These are our best and brightest at Stanford…
View ArticleComment on The futility of carbon reduction? by Fred Moolten
“This is a cop-out, Fred. You have NOT posted this in the past and appear to be weaseling out of doing so now.” That’s rather personal, Max. I have two questions. 1. Are you a betting man? 2. How much...
View ArticleComment on Uncertainty, risk, and (in)action by ChE
The reality is that we wouldn’t be having this “scientific” discussion if policy wasn’t the driver. This is, in fact, about policy. Every last bit of it. Always was.
View ArticleComment on What we agree(?) on by Pekka Pirilä
The knowledge of IR absorption spectra is not used only in climate science, and the climates science is not the first major application and motivation for the related computer codes. They were...
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by tempterrain
I would suggest that my comments on church attendance aren’t so much anti-religious as anti-idiot. By all means go into a church and pray for world peace, or whatever you like, should you feel the...
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by Latimer Alder
On this I agree with you entirely. They are witty bon mots. No more, no less. They could have been made by you or me or Joe Sixpack or the man on the bus with the squint and it wouldn’t change the...
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by tempterrain
Never mind the rest of the decade, what about the rest of the century? A growth rate of 3% equates to a doubling every 23.3 years. So, in 23.3+23.3+23.3 = 70 years, or before the end of the century,...
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by Latimer Alder
Kit Marlowe was positively scathing in his condemnation of it. ‘Not fit to be published’ were his words.’Not up to the standard of my own well-acclaimed published work. Shakespeare must not be allowed...
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by Latimer Alder
Yep. Your sum is right. Given the basic limits of physics,any suggestions on how you propose we achieve this?
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by Latimer Alder
‘However, correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t engineering types supposed to be more conservative than most?’ Like the engineers who build bridges ten times stronger than they need be ‘just in case’? Who...
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by Latimer Alder
Since you are talking to a fair bunch of sceptics on this blog, how do you know what we think on these matters? AFAIK they have never been raised here.
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by Chief Hydrologist
Yes I did mean the rest of the century – and your math is about right. How to do it? Hmmm.
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by Chief Hydrologist
There are lots of mad theories out there – abiotic oil is not one I am familiar with. But the sort of practical and pragmatic actions I am talking about don’t include taxing the SUV in any serious way...
View ArticleComment on How did we get into this? by Pooh, Dixie
Probably not; the wisdom of it, possibly. IMO, each scheme should come with an undo button.
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