Environment & Energy

Last edited Mon Sep 9, 2024, 07:18 PM - Edit history (3)

Since people started whining about radiation at Fukushima, ignoring the people killed by seawater in the same event, and the destruction of a coastal city, about 93 million people died from air pollution.

The death toll from radiation from the boogeyman at Fukushima is also discussed in many scientific publications; here's an example to which I often refer:

Comparison of mortality patterns after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant radiation disaster and during the COVID-19 pandemic ( Motohiro Tsuboi et al 2022 J. Radiol. Prot. 42 031502)

It's open sourced, but an excerpt is relevant:

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I added the bold.

I would say that if one is on a computer, using electricity largely generated by the combustion of gas and coal to whine about "what happened" at Fukushima, one is not really paying attention to what really happened, and what is happening.

In my tenure here, over the more than 20 years, beginning in the week beginning 11/17/2002, while listening to chants about solar and wind the whole time, something that happened is that the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide rose by 49.65 ppm as demonstrated by the most recent data:

Week beginning on September 01, 2024: 422.33 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 418.64 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 396.29 ppm
Last updated: September 09, 2024

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

That happened, although it's very clear that many people, many who in my view are reactionaries, don't give a shit.

Since the week of January 1, 2000, that number registering the increase is 53.63 ppm.

I am morally opposed to spending trillions of dollars on stuff that doesn't work.

The rate of atmospheric degradation is increasing, as reported in the OP, is now the worst ever.

The numbers make it clear that it isn't working, and all the quasi-religious chanting make that as clear as can be.

Numbers don't lie. People lie, to themselves and to each other, but numbers don't lie.

We have screwed all of our future generations because we have not understood that nuclear energy saves human lives.

Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895)

This is not to say that it is risk free, but it doesn't have to be risk free to be better than everything else, including the stuff people sweep under the rug.

Many people want to claim that they're environmentalists, and regrettably our "but our emails" media often includes antinuclear people as if they were really "environmentalists" but I don't buy it for a New York second. They are anything but environmentalists, and frankly, their selective attention kills people.

I stand by my remarks.

Have a swell afternoon.