Letters to a Heretic

[Moscow Mule]

Is that all? I grew up in Glasgow

You'll be fine then.

You won't have many folk to talk to, but you should be alright.

[Cliphead]

You'll be fine then.

You won't have many folk to talk to, but you should be alright.

A bit like here then.

[Moscow Mule]

A bit like here then.

A bit, yes.

[TimberWolf]

If governments (and the IPCC) were serious about the issue (and didn't want to encourage less breeding either) they could get together and make a dash for Thorium. India, Norway, Brazil and the US would be laughing. 3 millions times as much energy per unit mass as coal and a lot less radiation overall. Do they look bovered?

[sasguru]

You would do well not to disrespect people you know nothing about. Treating them fairly is a basic human norm as well.

Why? I know nothing about you but am fairly sure you're a cretin of the first order.
And I treat you fairly, by occasionally responded to your inane drivel.

[Ignis Fatuus]

If governments (and the IPCC) were serious about the issue (and didn't want to encourage less breeding either) they could get together and make a dash for Thorium. India, Norway, Brazil and the US would be laughing. 3 millions times as much energy per unit mass as coal and a lot less radiation overall. Do they look bovered?

If Thorium is better than Uranium for nuclear fission, why did everybody develop Uranium reactors and nobody develop Thorium reactors?

[shaunbhoy]

Why? I know nothing about you but am fairly sure you're a cretin of the first order.

That is you all over though sas. Drawing conclusions about things you know nothing about. Usually the wrong ones too. Then droning on and on about them as though them having passed through your primitive little collection of Logic Gates somehow bestows some relevance to your findings.

[TimberWolf]

If Thorium is better than Uranium for nuclear fission, why did everybody develop Uranium reactors and nobody develop Thorium reactors?

I guess the uranium route was easier, plus uranium reactors made it easy to produce plutonium for making weapons.

[EternalOptimist]

Why? I know nothing about you but am fairly sure you're a cretin of the first order.
And I treat you fairly, by occasionally responded to your inane drivel.

shut it, mono-lobe

[d000hg]

I keep asking this question, what's the worst that could happen?

I'd say that realistically, the West would be relatively unaffected since we have dull climates... it can get hotter or colder without getting extreme. We might have to adapt but lives are not at risk or overall standard of life. Perhaps more hurricanes in the US. Perhaps parts of Holland and London end up under water but this is gradual and can be managed.

It seems the big potential risks are marginal areas... land turning to desert, rain drying up, etc. Millions are already on a knife-edge of varying sharpness and they don't need much of a push for a calamity even if it is gradual.

The harsh fact is, the question "do we care" figures quite highly... a few £million on red noses isn't really going to cut it if a billion people need to be relocated.