Climate Change -- conspiracy theory or is it time we all drive a Prius?

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Oh, also have to continue with the tit for tat everybody is engaged in

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The UK is bracing for a cold snap next week as an Arctic blast is set to hit.

According to WX Charts, Friday, October 11 could see temperatures plummet below zero in many parts of the country, signalling the true arrival of autumn . . . and possibly the early one of winter. Netweather's map indicates a high likelihood of snowfall in some regions.

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https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/weather-maps-show-exact-date-33781210 .

Quote: odiousgambit

Some good things could come out of wanting to switch away from so much dependence on fossil fuels. F. fuels are ridiculously dirty on top of everything else

Not too much good comes out of panic, though. Guys like Kerry really show what can happen to people... the need for impossible solutions seems to breed crackpots. Thanks to Sabine Hossenfelder [you like her, yes?] we learned Germany's solution was to spend billions on a Hydrogen Energy System that can't possibly work, but she suspects they secretly just plan to use that infrastructure to store natural gas. So the dishonesty is also hard to take

To answer your question, I don't see conditions ever developing for panic mode. Can the climate get so bad that we have food shortages and deserts everywhere? Florida 90% under water ? Possibly, but most rational people would argue against it getting that bad. A return to more normal Ice Age conditions would be much worse. And that of all the scenarios is an almost certain eventual outcome ... all this way beyond our lifetimes.

OK, I turn out to be wrong and finally the entire public [after an upcoming huge backlash against crackpot ideas] all agree, we have to do something now! Well, we better wise up and go to the only thing that's going to get it done, and that's a worldwide energy system based on Nuclear. You ready for that?

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The accident did not initiate the demise of the U.S. nuclear power industry, but it did halt its historic growth. Additionally, as a result of the earlier 1973 oil crisis and post-crisis analysis with conclusions of potential overcapacity in base load, 40 planned nuclear power plants already had been canceled before the accident. At the time of the incident, 129 nuclear power plants had been approved, but of those, only 53 which were not already operating were completed. During the lengthy review process, complicated by the Chernobyl disaster seven years later, Federal requirements to correct safety issues and design deficiencies became more stringent, local opposition became more strident, construction times were significantly lengthened and costs skyrocketed.[107] Until 2012,[108] no U.S. nuclear power plant had been authorized to begin construction since the year before, 1978. Globally, the end of the increase in nuclear power plant construction came with the more catastrophic Chernobyl disaster in 1986 (see graph).

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Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was later asked to tell Congress why naval nuclear propulsion (as used in submarines) had suffered no reactor accidents, defined as the uncontrolled release of fission products to the environment resulting from damage to a reactor core. In his testimony, Rickover said:

Over the years, many people have asked me how I run the Naval Reactors Program, so that they might find some benefit for their own work. I am always chagrined at the tendency of people to expect that I have a simple, easy gimmick that makes my program function. Any successful program functions as an integrated whole of many factors. Trying to select one aspect as the key one will not work. Each element depends on all the others.[136]

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Quote: odiousgambit

Oh, also have to continue with the tit for tat everybody is engaged in

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The UK is bracing for a cold snap next week as an Arctic blast is set to hit.

According to WX Charts, Friday, October 11 could see temperatures plummet below zero in many parts of the country, signalling the true arrival of autumn . . . and possibly the early one of winter. Netweather's map indicates a high likelihood of snowfall in some regions.

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https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/weather-maps-show-exact-date-33781210 .

And?

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Brrrr! we're next!

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the panic folks are clinging to the strength of this one hurricane it seems. They need to prove it to themselves I guess

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I was the one that brought up the bunched-up number of 4-5 category hurricanes over 57 years that Geno corrected up making it even more significant. Stronger storms overall is part of warming climate predictions.