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Weird—er, New-Normal—Weather Watch: Too Hot to Cool Nuclear Reactors
Frank Strait’s blog at Accuweather informs us that it’s so hot in the east that nuclear reactors in the Tennessee Valley are being shut down because the water drawn out of the Tennessee River is too warm to cool them. That’s a first. The Tennessee Valley Authority said it would compensate for the loss of power by buying power elsewhere—though just Thursday they announced they were imposing a fuel surcharge on their customers because hydropower production is already down from the drought.
So maybe we won’t have to learn how to cut our own profligate carbon footprints. Maybe it will all be done for us in a hand-of-imaginary-friend, I mean, -god kind of way.
Add to this news the extremely weird behavior of tropical system Erin—it actually got stronger after landfall. And the fact that those fabulously bizarre birds known as frogmouths are breeding at the London Zoo for the first time in nearly a decade because, apparently, they’re mistaking the neverending deluge there for a monsoon. Seems someone likes the new normal. JULIA WHITTY
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Well, I guess nuclear power and hydroelectric won't be the solutions to global warming. I'm glad to hear someone likes the new climate. I imagine over a long enough time span evolution will take its course. We as a species won't be here to see it though.
Misanthropic Scott,
Your post is totally apropos. We here in Cleveland, Oh had no ice fishing for the last few winters. Bush and his science advisor Michael Crichton, MD and that other right winger from Lehigh Univ in Lehigh,Pa should ask our Ice fisherman what they think about climate change. They could stand to learn something to clear up their bubble of deliberate denial, NOT, likely.
The right wing religious, including my own religion, know climate change is not happening. And how do they know, why they just talk to God everyday and He tells them directly.
Somehow methinks their gods are the oil companies and the Bushies. But then what do I know, I'm not a right winger.
Posted by: bobr900 on 08/23/07 at 12:59 PM Respond
We are having unusually cold weather this summer in socal. Please send us some warm weather.
Posted by: Endless Bummer on 08/26/07 at 7:50 AM Respond
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Posted by: Misanthropic Scott on 08/22/07 at 6:42 PM Respond