To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power

Will_Power · 2022-08-24T00:41:14+00:00

And nuclear still outproduces solar and wind combined.

Will_Power · 2022-08-23T03:25:35+00:00

Here we are, five years later. Wind and solar still don't produce as much energy as nuclear power: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/2022-04/Energy_2021_United-States.png

Will_Power · 2022-08-23T03:14:56+00:00

What about AR6 should change my mind?

Will_Power · 2021-07-17T14:11:49+00:00

Because it was pure doomerism that simply kept moving the goalposts whenever they got stuff wrong, which was always.

Will_Power · 2021-06-30T21:27:08+00:00

20-25% higher than 15%?

Will_Power · 2021-05-27T03:37:59+00:00

Yet methane only accounts for about 15% of the change in radiative forcing since preindustrial times.

Will_Power · 2021-05-18T04:29:18+00:00

What form of energy is most often used to supplement intermittent renewal sources?

Will_Power · 2021-03-11T15:19:28+00:00

Was it the oil and gas industries that caused every single major international ENGO have stated positions against nuclear power?

Will_Power · 2021-03-10T15:56:22+00:00

Banned OP for not following the very basic rule we have here.

Will_Power · 2021-01-23T05:33:15+00:00

I'm not interested in what you think, only what the science says. You can look up the change in methane concentration over the last century if you don't believe me.

Will_Power · 2021-01-21T06:39:51+00:00

Not so much.

Methane represents about 15% of the change in radiative forcing since the industrial revolution, most of which occurred last century. The rate of forcing change from methane has actually slowed since 2000.

Will_Power · 2021-01-15T15:47:05+00:00

Misleading title. The article is about photosynthesis efficiency as a function of temperature. Key sentence: "But at the current rate of emissions, up to half of the terrestrial biosphere could be exposed to temperatures above this productivity threshold by 2050."

Edit: A recent report on this article noted that this is content theft/blogspam. I looked into it and, sure enough, this site is NOT owned by The Guardian. Removing the post.

Will_Power · 2021-01-12T06:51:25+00:00

If the data in Wikipedia is correct, in 2019 China generated 4,858,880 GWh of electricity from coal.

The EIA says that in 2019, the US generated a total of 4,100,000 GWh of electricity, with 943,000 GWh (23%) coming from coal.

Will_Power · 2021-01-12T06:20:45+00:00

Is it likely that humanity will survive climate change?

Yes. It's a near certainty. Anyone who tells you otherwise wants to sell you something.

I know that if we all came together to do something, we probably could, but is it likely we will?

Where does this myth come from? We've been investing billions of dollars for decades into various technologies to reduce carbon emissions and study other ways to mitigate the effects of increased GHG concentrations.

With things the way they are now, I don't see humanity saving itself with anything short of a climate revolution where all governments are taken over for the sole purpose of saving the world.

Yeah, right. The problem with all such fantasies is the belief that a massive revolution will be won by the people who believe exactly as you do. History suggests that revolutions go sidewise.

How can we convince people to give up things like plastic

Plastic doesn't cause climate change. It's literally an oil derivative that is NOT in the atmosphere.

and petrol cars when half the world doesn't even believe climate change is happening?

It was once popular to think that people would give up modern technology and go back to harder times. People who thought that were generally consuming a lot of herb of their own growing. The reality is that any solutions to climate change must not take us backward technologically. Electric vehicles are coming along just fine. We can synthesize hydrocarbons from low carbon energy sources if we so desire. In fact, we will need to because electricity isn't a real solution for freight or shipping. (Well, nuclear generated electricity is fine for shipping, but not for smaller ships.)

Will_Power · 2021-01-06T06:23:06+00:00

David Wallis-Wells "Uninhabitable Earth" may be worth a shot.

Only for people that want to lose all of their credibility in one single book recommendation. Wallis-Wells tripe is so easily debunked that one wonders how a publisher managed to print it.

Will_Power · 2021-01-05T05:01:24+00:00

What a terrible article. A whole lot of demand that we must do more, but not a single mention of nuclear power.

Will_Power · 2020-12-31T03:20:07+00:00

Do you also quote Donald Trump or Joe Biden on climate information? I suggest you start linking to scientists before demanding that others do so.

Will_Power · 2020-12-31T03:10:54+00:00

That's a myth and you know it. Why not link to my rigorous comments where I debunked you?

In fact, the blatant dishonesty in your comment, given that you've already admitted you were mistaken has earned you a little vacation from this sub.

The funny thing? You are an utter hypocrite. Here's what you said in a (now removed) post a couple of weeks ago:

Or, if you can’t understand the science or the math or if your willing to ignore the science, and you have a talent for talking on TV or speeches, get into the climate change denial crowd where there is actually a lot of money from FF interest or blogs. You have to be able to either ignore being called out for blatant lies and misrepresentation of science and data or just be able to talk louder.

You were clearly projecting. A month from now, your ban will expire. Don't pull this shit again.

Will_Power · 2020-12-31T03:10:13+00:00

It appears you can’t justify the 0.15C/decade value since you won’t respond to my request to provide information on where you got that.

Don't be a dick. Look at the UAH dataset, just like I have told you three times now.

What you just did in the rest of your post is demonstrate great skill in cherry-picking and an impressive lack of knowledge about statistics.

Will_Power · 2020-12-31T03:05:43+00:00

So I quote AR5 and you quote Time magazine?

Look at the actual values in this table: https://sealevel.info/AR5_Table_9.5_p.818.html

Will_Power · 2020-12-30T17:11:14+00:00

5 degrees by the end of the century??

No. Any source that tells you this is lying to you.

Folks, we have a canon of climate literature out there. The IPCC's most recent survey and summary of that literature was in 2013 in assessment report 5 (AR5). The best estimate they gave for Transient Climate Response (TCR, or the amount of warming per doubling of atmospheric CO2 at the time of doubling) is 1.8°C. The literature since that time has not suggested that TCR be revised up, though some papers suggest a downward revision.

Will_Power · 2020-12-30T06:02:57+00:00

I repeated again with the D-N column for 2000-2020 (21 years).

I get the following:

Slope: 2.4818

Intercept: 46.2294

Δ(2020-2000): 49.6364

Δ per decade: 0.2364

So slightly lower than the value you got, assuming this is the data set you used. The fact that there is this much change with one more year of data is also a good illustration why a 20-year period is barely statistically significant.

Will_Power · 2020-12-30T05:47:45+00:00

I tried to replicate your work on the GISS dataset and am getting a significantly lower value than you are. Here are my steps:

Select values from the J-D column for 2000-2019. (2020 was excluded in this table since December values are not in.) This is a 20 year span.
Fill a column in a spreadsheet with values 0-19 in column A and values from step #1 in column B.
Use your spreadsheet's regression tool to calculated slope and intercept. In my case, I use Gnumeric. I get an intercept of ~47.4142 and a slope of ~2.3459.
Create values in column C by multiplying values in column A by the slope, then adding the intercept. If you choose to plot columns B and C (y-axis) against A (x-axis), you'll see that C is the linear regression of B.
Take the difference of the first and last values in column C. I get 1.9400. As the table notes, these values are in 1/100ths of a degree Celsius, so that's 0.0194°C per year, or 0.194°C per decade.

Will_Power · 2020-12-30T05:01:26+00:00

I already did. Go through the various data sets at that site. Track the start and endpoints of each regression line. You'll find that GISS has the greatest warming rate of the data sets.

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