Global Warming: "Pseudoscientific Fraud"

[SeattleUte]

That’s great. Nuclear power is a no-brainer.

I have been kind of obsessed with Chernobyl the last few weeks — if anything what I have learned about that accident makes me feel even more confident in the safety of nuclear power. It took an extreme amount of incompetence in an incredibly dysfunctional government to produce that accident. Something like that would be very unlikely to ever happen again.

If you accept climatologists’ worst case scenarios—which may be unlikely but it’s what the left takes as a given—we have no choice.

[frank ryan]

That’s great. Nuclear power is a no-brainer.

I have been kind of obsessed with Chernobyl the last few weeks — if anything what I have learned about that accident makes me feel even more confident in the safety of nuclear power. It took an extreme amount of incompetence in an incredibly dysfunctional government to produce that accident. Something like that would be very unlikely to ever happen again.

The Fukushima disaster taught us that we still need to be cautious. But, I'm with you. Both environmentally and economically is makes a lot of sense.

[frank ryan]

If you accept climatologists’ worst case scenarios—which may be unlikely but it’s what the left takes as a given—we have no choice.

I hope it's unlikely.

[wapiti]

It doesn’t matter. The left needs to get real about the problem and pay attention to the science. Their delusions are ruining the planet.

https://quillette.com/2019/02/27/why...ve-the-planet/

I remember when GWB and Cheney came out with their energy plan that included large investments in nuclear and token investments in renewables. They got torched in the media and the plan went no where. In reality, they nailed it.

[PaloAltoCougar]

While I agree with the conclusion of the article SU linked, I've been bothered by one sentence:

Over an 80-year lifespan, fewer than 200 people will die from the radiation from the worst nuclear accident, Chernobyl, and zero will die from the small amounts of radiant particulate matter that escaped from Fukushima.

The few things I've read, not to mention the recent HBO Chernobyl series, have claimed radiation deaths from Chernobyl will be at least 4,000, and that number is frequently derided as being low. I'd like to ask the article's author to explain his number.

[hostile]

While I agree with the conclusion of the article SU linked, I've been bothered by one sentence:

The few things I've read, not to mention the recent HBO Chernobyl series, have claimed radiation deaths from Chernobyl will be at least 4,000, and that number is frequently derided as being low. I'd like to ask the article's author to explain his number.

Yeah, that number seemed very low to me.

[SeattleUte]

While I agree with the conclusion of the article SU linked, I've been bothered by one sentence:

The few things I've read, not to mention the recent HBO Chernobyl series, have claimed radiation deaths from Chernobyl will be at least 4,000, and that number is frequently derided as being low. I'd like to ask the article's author to explain his number.

Actually, you can look these things up, now. Three decades later, the 4000 figure remains highly speculative.

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news.../2005/pr38/en/

Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, the spotted owl, the border crisis, like global warming/climate change itself, et al., the event or phenomenon is mostly characterized by its politicization, rather than honest research and debate.

But if we don't stop global warming the entire planet will die!

[Walter Sobchak]

This is some Bullshit right here... a bridge too far.

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[Pelado]

This is some Bullshit right here... a bridge too far.

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Is nothing sacred?

[BigFatMeanie]

Why is it just America's heavy use of TP? Do Canadians wipe their ass with their hands?

[Moliere]

Why is it just America's heavy use of TP? Do Canadians wipe their ass with their hands?

Maple leafs

[Kamrone]

Global Warming "Pseudoscientific Fraud"

I thought we had a thread on this but couldnt find it.

heres the question I have. If it is proven that carbon dioxide emmissions do not contribute to global warming, how long will it take for the proponents of such an idea to let it go?

[beefytee]

I thought we had a thread on this but couldnt find it.

heres the question I have. If it is proven that carbon dioxide emmissions do not contribute to global warming, how long will it take for the proponents of such an idea to let it go?

Probably about as long as it has taken for opponents of global warming to come around to the fact that carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to global warming.

[Joe Public]

I thought we had a thread on this but couldnt find it.

heres the question I have. If it is proven that carbon dioxide emmissions do not contribute to global warming, how long will it take for the proponents of such an idea to let it go?

I trust your knowledge of the history of CS thread topics and discussions throughout the years, so maybe you just missed it in your search.

[Pelado]

I trust your knowledge of the history of CS thread topics and discussions throughout the years, so maybe you just missed it in your search.

There is truly no better CS historian than... [checks notes]...Kamrone.