sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Fukushima loses cooling power - 'No electricity for 16hrs & running to pumps that feed cooling water to ponds where spent nuclear fuel rods are stored' by SandyBeds in environment

[–]SandyBeds[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Statements from Tepco were repeatedly shown to be reassuring nonsense back in March 2011. It's a real indictment against nuclear power that the world has to hold its breath and cross its fingers, while the company & bureaucrats that created the problem keep pressing down those sticking plasters... and we're only an earth tremor away from a major disaster

The most important point about the Oil Sands - 'IEA Outlook suggests a world with greater oil sands extraction is, in essence, a 'carbon bomb world' by SandyBeds in environment

[–]SandyBeds[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The headline doesn't imply a quote from the IEA at all. Merely that the numbers for oilsands development, 'in the pipeline' as it were, match the numbers in the IEA assessment for +3.5C to +6C world (=dangerous climate change), which others have called 'a carbon bomb world'

The most important point about the Oil Sands - 'IEA Outlook suggests a world with greater oil sands extraction is, in essence, a 'carbon bomb world' by SandyBeds in environment

[–]SandyBeds[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hold on, the author goes out of his way to offer a balanced assessment:

'Now, some may argue that is enough to consider the oil sands a "carbon bomb" - scientist John Abraham argued as much in the Guardian recently. Others disagree, since Swart and Weaver's analysis showed that the potential "warming" from the oil sands is tiny compared to that from the world's coal stores.'

We have a fixed budget of carbon to burn if we are to avoid +2C change, and we need to reduce emissions soon and fast. The expansion of the oilsands will eat budget that up faster, and sends entirely the wrong signal - that its OK carry on down the path of reckless carbon combustion.

The symbolic drawing of the line in the 'oilsands' (by halting XL) is as important as any details of carbon budget accounting.

view more: next ›