On April 1st, Mochizuki wrote in the Fukushima Diary that the sea water off shore Fukushima is warmer than the average of past 30 years by around 2.5 degrees C http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/04/sea-water-offshore-fukushima-is-warmer-than-the-average-of-past-30-years-by-2-5%E2%84%83/
This dramatic rise in temperature was also picked up in the Fukushima webcam discussion thread, in ENE news.
On April 4th, I looked at the Unisys Weather - Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies chart and it was still showing up. This is a map from their archives for April 7th 2013 http://weather.unisys.com/archive/sst/sst_anom-130407.gif
This comes from a very helpful SST anomalies archive provided by Unisys. You can link to it from the previous map, or follow this link, http://weather.unisys.com/archive/sst/ to a list which is updated about weekly for sea surface temperature anomalies. I couldn't see anything significant in the March 4th weekly map, or in the weeks just preceding it, but there is clear evidence in the week of March 11th onwards of a temperature rise.
There is also a Unisys Weather - Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies chart (current) http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sfc_daily.php?plot=ssa&inv=0&t=cur and Elders has a an excellent chart of current anomalies, http://www.eldersweather.com.au
If you are also new to this area, don't forget that these are maps of sea surface temperature anomalies, not overall sea surface temperatures. It can be a bit confusing!
I don't think that global warming is responsible for this.
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Thursday, 4 April 2013
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Hello ice age...Bye Bye Global warming. Please let's get rid of nuclear power before the freeze.
For years I have been getting fed up at at being told that nuclear power is zero carbon rated. This is an absolute lie to me because, for a start Uranium mining is anything but low carbon, and the legacy of sickness and contamination of water and soil that goes with it can be devastating. Are we human beings or unfeeling aliens? I hope the former and no one on earth should wish this for their neighbour.
We have had yet another nuclear accident at Fukushima and it is still out of control and the Missouri River is flooding and apparently if one of the dams burst it will be a very serous scenario at the Nebraska nuclear plant..
The people of Italy, Germany, Switzerland, have recently said No to nuclear and countries like Norway made up their mind years ago not to go down that road. Surely this is the time to begin to close down the plants before anything worse happens. We know that the leukaemias will already come in a few years time, the hard cancers will follow some years later.... and they will. There will also be other diseases and abnormalities which will be genetic.
Now, if the scientists are right, we are almost certainly heading into a new mini ice age and that means that global warming won't happen. This means that nuclear power industry simply can't use the carbon argument any more.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/ and, even sooner with the news: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html
I personally think that peak oil will come upon us far sooner than most people are allowing for and that will have a huge effect on our contribution to global warming. I just don't want future generations to be trapped into drinking water which is radioactive, eating food which is radioactive and grown in soil contaminated with alpha particle emitters. It won't seem funny to them, I'd guess when they know that they and their children are tasting the future and it's one of leukaemias, cancers and other diseases, and a genetic legacy they hadn't asked for.
Certainly, it probably is a fact that whatever these sunspots herald, the earth has a habit of going into another real ice age every 15,000 to 20,000 years and as we are around 18,000 years we may not have too long before this hits in again.
A lot of the things that have come out of the global warming theory are useful. Every solar panel and wind farm out at sea, wave machine and tidal power station will be a boon and surely micro generation is a blessing. I love the idea of generating electricity at the site it is needed. It's fun!
Keeping your home warm will be even more important and if nuclear power is allowed to be one of the future
mix, heaven help the poor people because according to the bright guys I've read, the costs will be passed on in the electricity bill and they will be huge. Don't forget that decommissioning the plants after their twenty years or so, takes a huge amount of energy and costs a huge amount too, and we still don't know what to do with the waste, a lot of which which will be dangerously radioactive for thousands of years. That will cost too.
Anyway, grease the runners on the sled and hold onto your sweaters, because you may need them!!
We have had yet another nuclear accident at Fukushima and it is still out of control and the Missouri River is flooding and apparently if one of the dams burst it will be a very serous scenario at the Nebraska nuclear plant..
The people of Italy, Germany, Switzerland, have recently said No to nuclear and countries like Norway made up their mind years ago not to go down that road. Surely this is the time to begin to close down the plants before anything worse happens. We know that the leukaemias will already come in a few years time, the hard cancers will follow some years later.... and they will. There will also be other diseases and abnormalities which will be genetic.
Now, if the scientists are right, we are almost certainly heading into a new mini ice age and that means that global warming won't happen. This means that nuclear power industry simply can't use the carbon argument any more.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/ and, even sooner with the news: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242011/DAVID-ROSE-The-mini-ice-age-starts-here.html
I personally think that peak oil will come upon us far sooner than most people are allowing for and that will have a huge effect on our contribution to global warming. I just don't want future generations to be trapped into drinking water which is radioactive, eating food which is radioactive and grown in soil contaminated with alpha particle emitters. It won't seem funny to them, I'd guess when they know that they and their children are tasting the future and it's one of leukaemias, cancers and other diseases, and a genetic legacy they hadn't asked for.
Certainly, it probably is a fact that whatever these sunspots herald, the earth has a habit of going into another real ice age every 15,000 to 20,000 years and as we are around 18,000 years we may not have too long before this hits in again.
A lot of the things that have come out of the global warming theory are useful. Every solar panel and wind farm out at sea, wave machine and tidal power station will be a boon and surely micro generation is a blessing. I love the idea of generating electricity at the site it is needed. It's fun!
Keeping your home warm will be even more important and if nuclear power is allowed to be one of the future
mix, heaven help the poor people because according to the bright guys I've read, the costs will be passed on in the electricity bill and they will be huge. Don't forget that decommissioning the plants after their twenty years or so, takes a huge amount of energy and costs a huge amount too, and we still don't know what to do with the waste, a lot of which which will be dangerously radioactive for thousands of years. That will cost too.
Anyway, grease the runners on the sled and hold onto your sweaters, because you may need them!!
Monday, 2 August 2010
Raising the temperature... Whose water is it anyway?
A week or so ago I reported the good news that all we have to do is to eat organic and bring back the world to an organic system of food growing, as well reforesting, to not only stop global warming but reverse it. This came in the form of an article and alert in organic byte #227 from the Organic Consumers Association via a tweet.
Never in the history of mankind , surely, has such an important piece of news been delivered in such a singular way!.... but there it is... you don't need to do anything more fancy than going back to growing food the way our great grandparents did, to save the world.
This cannot come soon enough. This week, I had a news update from The Ecologist, the ecological early warning e magazine, reporting on a paper by a Canadian researchers, headed by Daniel Boyce, a PhD student at Dalhousie University, published in Nature.
It appears that while the beneficial mycorrhizal fungi in the soil can seqester back all the CO2 we produce and more, given half a chance; the phytoplankton in the surface layers of the sea have not been doing so well.. In fact their numbers have been going down worldwide each year by 1% since 1950. The Northern hemisphere has lost 40%. This seems to be due to the temperature of the water going up.
The Phytoplankton produce half the world's oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to Boris Worm, another member of the team.
You can find mention of it on the internet.. CBS has a short report, for one, which is where these figures came from, and which the link is to, but there are others.
It raises the question, do the billions and billions of gallons of water, sucked in by the nuclear power plants every day around the world, which also suck in and kill billions of small marine animals, have a crucial role in this?
From some figures I obtained from Beyond Nuclear, by going to " Licensed to Kill" (or go to 'Animals' and choose it from the drop down menu, or key it in their search box), "Once Through" systems can raise the temperature of the water taken in by up to 25 degrees Fahrenheit when it is returned to the sea. These temperature changes and the huge volumes of water being returned to the surface layers of the seas makes me wonder if the very air we breath depends on their being closed down? It may depend on no new ones being even considered..
If these "once through" plants were all forced to close down until they had been retro fitted with cooling towers, it would reduce this problem..but before you think that's the answer, just look at the problems with cooling towers and tritium leaks and ask yourselves whether that is an especially good answer.
In this country, Sellafield can take 4 million gallons of water a day from Wastwater, a beauty spot in the Lake District, to keep the high level liquid wastes from boiling, that's a lot in a year, but unlike the nuclear power plants, you can't shut down the cooling to the tanks, because the radioactivity in them causes the liquids to get hotter and hotter, and the wastes have to be kept cool for years and years. Meanwhile, local people are complaining about a hosepipe ban!
There are alternatives and you are entitled to a secure future... all of you. But don't worry about global warming, you can still munch your way out of it. Will there be enough for everyone... well, if you read "Don't Panic, Go Organic", also in the OCA., of course there will.
Never in the history of mankind , surely, has such an important piece of news been delivered in such a singular way!.... but there it is... you don't need to do anything more fancy than going back to growing food the way our great grandparents did, to save the world.
This cannot come soon enough. This week, I had a news update from The Ecologist, the ecological early warning e magazine, reporting on a paper by a Canadian researchers, headed by Daniel Boyce, a PhD student at Dalhousie University, published in Nature.
It appears that while the beneficial mycorrhizal fungi in the soil can seqester back all the CO2 we produce and more, given half a chance; the phytoplankton in the surface layers of the sea have not been doing so well.. In fact their numbers have been going down worldwide each year by 1% since 1950. The Northern hemisphere has lost 40%. This seems to be due to the temperature of the water going up.
The Phytoplankton produce half the world's oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to Boris Worm, another member of the team.
You can find mention of it on the internet.. CBS has a short report, for one, which is where these figures came from, and which the link is to, but there are others.
It raises the question, do the billions and billions of gallons of water, sucked in by the nuclear power plants every day around the world, which also suck in and kill billions of small marine animals, have a crucial role in this?
From some figures I obtained from Beyond Nuclear, by going to " Licensed to Kill" (or go to 'Animals' and choose it from the drop down menu, or key it in their search box), "Once Through" systems can raise the temperature of the water taken in by up to 25 degrees Fahrenheit when it is returned to the sea. These temperature changes and the huge volumes of water being returned to the surface layers of the seas makes me wonder if the very air we breath depends on their being closed down? It may depend on no new ones being even considered..
If these "once through" plants were all forced to close down until they had been retro fitted with cooling towers, it would reduce this problem..but before you think that's the answer, just look at the problems with cooling towers and tritium leaks and ask yourselves whether that is an especially good answer.
In this country, Sellafield can take 4 million gallons of water a day from Wastwater, a beauty spot in the Lake District, to keep the high level liquid wastes from boiling, that's a lot in a year, but unlike the nuclear power plants, you can't shut down the cooling to the tanks, because the radioactivity in them causes the liquids to get hotter and hotter, and the wastes have to be kept cool for years and years. Meanwhile, local people are complaining about a hosepipe ban!
There are alternatives and you are entitled to a secure future... all of you. But don't worry about global warming, you can still munch your way out of it. Will there be enough for everyone... well, if you read "Don't Panic, Go Organic", also in the OCA., of course there will.
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