Climate Change (?) Fossil fuels (?) Nuclear (?) John Shanahan

Man-made climate change (???)

Climate Change (Read to the end) The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate at Bergen Norway.

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone.

Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.

Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the Gulf Stream still very warm.

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Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.

Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coast cities uninhabitable. ********* Opps… neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922 as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post 96 years ago.

“This warming in Norway in 1922 must have been caused by Model T Ford emissions or possibly from horse, cattle and reindeer.”

Lake Geneva, Versoix, Switzerland Storms with very cold temperatures – 12 deg C, 10 deg F and 100 kmh, 70 mph winds happen quickly while Lake Geneva is still warm enough to have no ice. Wind whips the lake water up and it freezes instantly on everything it lands on. This has happened in 2018, 2017, 2015, 2012, and 2005 as well as at various times in the distant past. The average annual temperature of Versoix is 9 deg. C, 48 deg. F 2

Lake Geneva, Versoix, Switzerland 3

Lake Geneva in the summer time.

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Fossil fuels and their by-products have made incredible contributions to improving lives of billions of people around the world. More billions in poorer parts of the world desperately need fossil fuels, not solar ovens, solar panels, windmills or nuclear power.

They shouldn’t have nuclear plants yet because their governments, economies and education systems are not stable and strong enough. The advanced economies of the world have enough problems trying to have stable governments.

Arguments that nuclear can be implemented universally in a short span of time, less than a century are absolutely unrealistic. Yes, France implemented a nearly all nuclear program in a few decades. But the rest of the world is clearly not France. Vive la France!

Advocates for nuclear power should not use the man-made global warming argument against fossil fuels for two reasons: a) the question of man-made global warming is far from settled and b) the poorer half of the world desperately needs fossil fuels. This has been the position of Environmentalists for Nuclear – USA, EFN-USA, since 2013.

EFN-USA encourages all nuclear organizations and individual nuclear professionals to drop the man-made climate change argument as a reason to promote nuclear so that nuclear power and all of nuclear’s by-products and services including nuclear medicine can develop quickly based on sound technical reasoning, not potentially wrong climate science. Nuclear professionals need to focus on overcoming licensing, technical and public perception challenges. The nuclear industry must finish developing advanced nuclear power and used fuel recycling technologies. France is very close to accomplishing that. Russia and China are racing to be number one and two. Go Canada, South Korea, Japan, South Africa, and everyone else! Hello Germany! Are you going with wind and solar or nuclear? The world needs all the fossil fuels and nuclear power it can get.

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