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I CALL BULLSHIT!

April 30, 2006 on 6:22 pm | In Contemplation | | Jonny Chaos

This morning, as I arose bleary and bag-eyed, I listened to the news on the b, as you do (well I do). Apparently some research group (curse media for not citing sources) have published results indicating that human input to climate change has been over-estimated. Fine, Whatever.

What irked me was that jeanette fitzsimons (of the green party) decided to claim that the results were influenced by private interest. I CALL BULLSHIT!!.

Like the greens arent! Quite aside from their zealous need to be right about the environment, they all own organic soap companies and hemp clothing labels. SO? So if we were no longer afraid of the environment crashing and burning, the cattle would start to think like they did in the 50’s: when synthetic meant good. Of course, if that happened, no one would make money from the organics industry. Clearly the greens need to keep up this appearance (to continue raking in the filthy lucre), and I call bullshit upon them.

This is not to say that I dismiss the notion of climate change, paleogeology has given us ample evidence that the climate changes, its just a question of causality, rather than culpability. I find it abysmal that the greenies run around blaming everyone before solid data has been presented. Good example: nuclear power, we had a nice co-cogitation about it on IRC a few nights ago: heres the salient points…

[22:53] mountain: Soviet scientists reported that the Chernobyl Unit 4 reactor contained about 180–190 t of uranium dioxide fuel and fission products.
[22:54] JonnyDoom: Commercial nuclear power plants use fuel typically enriched to 2-3% U235
[22:58] JonnyDoom: according to the info, there couldnt have been more than 5 tonnes of U235 in the whole reactor.
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[23:11] Lord_Riff_Raff: we burn 6000 million tonnes of coal each year. Coal is between 1 and 10 ppm Uranium. Ergo we release at least 6000 tonnes of uranium into the atmosphere each year normally
[23:12] JonnyDoom: so thats about 12 tonnes U235
[23:13] JonnyDoom: a year….
[23:13] Lord_Riff_Raff: and it’s exponential growth
[23:13] Lord_Riff_Raff: that’s what it was like in the year 2000
[23:13] JonnyDoom: like 2.4x what chernobyl spewed out…

Who are you going to trust? People who have science and engineering (REAL) degrees? Or hippies selling pants made out of psycho-actives?

So there you have it. now shut the fuck up.