Comments on: Climate care gone mad! http://blog.cluepusher.dk/2008/03/29/climate-care-gone-mad/ Diary and thoughtspace of Rune B. Broberg Wed, 26 May 2010 16:29:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: mihtjel http://blog.cluepusher.dk/2008/03/29/climate-care-gone-mad/comment-page-1/#comment-1308 mihtjel Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:16:27 +0000 http://blog.cluepusher.dk/2008/03/29/climate-care-gone-mad/#comment-1308 We already have a bunch of ways of generating energy without letting out CO2 and other polutants - nuclear power is one very obvious one; solar, wind and hydro-power are others. But nuclear is the one that shows by far the largest potential to help reduce the base load on the fossil fuel based power plants. Unfortunately, people - and politicians in particular - are far too scared of it, because of a crappy built Soviet reactor that blew up. We already have a bunch of ways of generating energy without letting out CO2 and other polutants – nuclear power is one very obvious one; solar, wind and hydro-power are others. But nuclear is the one that shows by far the largest potential to help reduce the base load on the fossil fuel based power plants. Unfortunately, people – and politicians in particular – are far too scared of it, because of a crappy built Soviet reactor that blew up.

]]> By: radiac http://blog.cluepusher.dk/2008/03/29/climate-care-gone-mad/comment-page-1/#comment-1305 radiac Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:47:06 +0000 http://blog.cluepusher.dk/2008/03/29/climate-care-gone-mad/#comment-1305 And I thought our politicians were dumb - that's amazing! Am sure I read somewhere that starting and stopping the engine has a petrol overhead too, so I guess that wouldn't help either. Bit like the green taxes that our government insist on slapping on everything, but without putting any money into alternative forms of transport - it's clearly got nothing to do with the environment and is just to grab headlines. Or in our case, to cover the budget shortfall they are now panicking about because they've only just realised that by spending all our reserves in a strong economy, they haven't saved anything to get us through the imminent recession. So now they will help inflation by increasing taxes. And then rig the basket to claim that inflation hasn't been at 33% over the past year; it's a coincidence that everything now costs 33p/£ more, we just don't understand the complicated maths. The only thing that will sort out the climate is one of two things: we invent a pollution-free way of generating energy, or a meteor hits and wipes us all out before we can do any more long-term damage. We're therefore completely screwed. And I thought our politicians were dumb – that’s amazing! Am sure I read somewhere that starting and stopping the engine has a petrol overhead too, so I guess that wouldn’t help either.

Bit like the green taxes that our government insist on slapping on everything, but without putting any money into alternative forms of transport – it’s clearly got nothing to do with the environment and is just to grab headlines. Or in our case, to cover the budget shortfall they are now panicking about because they’ve only just realised that by spending all our reserves in a strong economy, they haven’t saved anything to get us through the imminent recession. So now they will help inflation by increasing taxes. And then rig the basket to claim that inflation hasn’t been at 33% over the past year; it’s a coincidence that everything now costs 33p/£ more, we just don’t understand the complicated maths.

The only thing that will sort out the climate is one of two things: we invent a pollution-free way of generating energy, or a meteor hits and wipes us all out before we can do any more long-term damage. We’re therefore completely screwed.

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