"..executive with the utility company Florida Power & Light told me that his company had adopted nuclear power so that its leaders wouldn’t be embarrassed on the golf course by other C.E.O.s who had done so" @insideFPL#Florida#sealevel
.. world should expect one full or partial meltdown every six to seven years.. worldwide nuclear program is slightly overdue for its next big surprise.
A 2016 study concluded the “overall probability” of a meltdown in the next decade was almost 70%
the death certificate for the U.S. nuclear industry can be dated precisely to the summer of 1974. U.S. interest rates were approaching the double digits, and utility companies, en masse, stopped ordering nuclear units;
cancelled their outstanding contracts for new ones; and even scrapped nuclear-construction projects that were already well under way. This entailed LOSSES OF HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars for the utilities & led to a cascade of unprecedented DEFAULTS in the nuclear industry
👆Is this factored in in the cost of #Nuclear power? Don't think so!
Add cost of previous accidents & ones to come #CostingTheEarth
Decades’ worth of evidence testifies to the difficulty, expense, and danger of turning swords into plowshares
French nuclear capacity has been effectively cut in half. Due to failures & #RapidGlobalWarming
The fact that French nuclear power has fallen on its face when it is needed most is a hint that it is not the key to world energy security.
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“Things are behaving in a more ERRATIC way than we expected & that means the future predictions may also be more off" 👀
"So it turns out there are some, kind of systematic issues, in the way that we have built all these model runs, that are problematic" e360.yale.edu/features/gavin…
Schmidt: ..my best plan is just to do the best that we can in terms of the science & hope that by knowing more about the system, people will make better choices. But obviously that’s hopelessly naive
James Hansen 👇🏽
"Rate of ice melt would increase exponentially.. we don't know how fast that is but we KNOW that it's going to be EXPONENTIAL..
👉🏽BECAUSE we HAVE from #PaleoClimate history, evidence of how FAST ice sheets melt"
Interview with Paul Beck
👉🏽"AND in particular during the Emian which was about 1C warmer👀 than the Holocene 👀..
👉🏽Sea levels SUDDENLY went up by a FEW METERS which IS a clear indication that the Western Antarctic ice sheets collapsed AND this occurred in LESS than a century 👀"
“Almost irrespective of our emissions choices in the near term, we will probably reach 1.5C in the first half of the next decade,” said Irish climate scientist Peter Thorne, one of the lead authors on the UN report.
real question, he said, is whether we overshoot 1.5 C by a little bit and come back down 🤔
Doesn't he realize that the #NetZero target is 2050?
And no nation is on target for 2030 reductions 🔥
And fossil fuel production everywhere Is INCREASING 👀