Should Ontario electricity stay as clean as it is right now? Right now (six thirty a.m. on Friday May 16), every kilowatt-hour of Ontario grid power comes with a carbon footprint of 38.5 grams; Table 1 on the left gives…
Category: Nuclear
RIP Farley Mowat: an affectionate farewell to an opponent of the softest-stepping energy technology mankind ever devised
Farley Mowat, author of some of the best young adult adventure novels ever written, passed away last week. He was 92. Most people who offered kind words on his behalf to the Canadian and international media said he left a…
“Concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere are surpassing 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history”—Scripps Institution of Oceanography
A year ago, I published an article on the then-most-recent warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the rapidly increasing concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in out planet’s atmosphere. Concentrations were nearing 400 parts per million (ppm)…
Ontario electricity and ocean acidification: fighting carbon with nuclear power
The acidity of the world’s oceans has since the Industrial Revolution increased by 30 percent, according to the U.S. National Atmospheric and Ocean Administration (NOAA). This is because the Industrial Revolution introduced machine power to human civilization; and machines multiplied,…
IPCC, meet Johannes Kepler: like you, he faced dogma, peer pressure, and criticism. Here’s how he responded
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) earlier this week published the contribution of another Working Group to its Assessment Report 5. This WG, WG3 to be precise, reviewed literature on the “scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of…