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southwestforests
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19 Dec 2009, 10:59 am
southwestforests
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19 Dec 2009, 11:11 am
Global Warming! Global Warming! Global Warming!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7817124.stm
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Emergency teams are trying to restore power to thousands of homes in the south of France after the worst blizzard conditions in two decades.
The city of Marseille had to close its international airport on Wednesday as the freezing weather gripped much of Europe. Chris Bockman reports.
The city of Marseille had to close its international airport on Wednesday as the freezing weather gripped much of Europe. Chris Bockman reports.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7815773.stm
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The freezing conditions have continued to produce scenes of ice and snow across the UK as temperatures plunged to -12C (10.4F) overnight.
{Yes, I know, southern France this week is not the entire planet over twenty years and the years to come}
{I just felt like being a sarcastic brat}
19 Dec 2009, 11:13 pm
20 Dec 2009, 3:44 am
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20 Dec 2009, 11:41 am
southwestforests wrote:
Global Warming! Global Warming! Global Warming! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7817124.stm
Quote:
Emergency teams are trying to restore power to thousands of homes in the south of France after the worst blizzard conditions in two decades.
The city of Marseille had to close its international airport on Wednesday as the freezing weather gripped much of Europe. Chris Bockman reports.
The city of Marseille had to close its international airport on Wednesday as the freezing weather gripped much of Europe. Chris Bockman reports.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7815773.stm
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The freezing conditions have continued to produce scenes of ice and snow across the UK as temperatures plunged to -12C (10.4F) overnight.
{Yes, I know, southern France this week is not the entire planet over twenty years and the years to come}
{I just felt like being a sarcastic brat}
The new Catch-phrase is not Global Warming but Global Climate Change.....
If you haven't read Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Discipline, I suggest you do so:
From the founder and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog is Stewart Brand's vision of a sustainable future.....
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From Publishers Weekly
Brand, co-author of the seminal 1969 Whole Earth Catalog, compiles reflections and lessons learned from more than 40 years as an environmentalist in this clumsy yet compelling attempt to inspire practicable solutions to climate change. Brand haphazardly organizes his manifesto into chapters that address environmental stewardship opportunities, exhorting environmentalists to become fearless about following science; his iconoclastic proposals include transitioning to nuclear energy and ecosystem engineering. Brand believes environmentalists must embrace nuclear energy expansion and other inevitable technological advances, and refreshingly suggests a shift in the environmentalists' dogmatic approach to combating climate change. Rejecting the inflexible message so common in the Green movement, he describes a process of reasonable debate and experimentation. Brand's fresh perspective, approachable writing style and manifest wisdom ultimately convince the reader that the future is not an abyss to be feared but an opportunity for innovative problem solvers to embrace enthusiastically. (Oct.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Brand, co-author of the seminal 1969 Whole Earth Catalog, compiles reflections and lessons learned from more than 40 years as an environmentalist in this clumsy yet compelling attempt to inspire practicable solutions to climate change. Brand haphazardly organizes his manifesto into chapters that address environmental stewardship opportunities, exhorting environmentalists to become fearless about following science; his iconoclastic proposals include transitioning to nuclear energy and ecosystem engineering. Brand believes environmentalists must embrace nuclear energy expansion and other inevitable technological advances, and refreshingly suggests a shift in the environmentalists' dogmatic approach to combating climate change. Rejecting the inflexible message so common in the Green movement, he describes a process of reasonable debate and experimentation. Brand's fresh perspective, approachable writing style and manifest wisdom ultimately convince the reader that the future is not an abyss to be feared but an opportunity for innovative problem solvers to embrace enthusiastically. (Oct.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
20 Dec 2009, 12:41 pm
20 Dec 2009, 1:11 pm
As a resident of Northern France I'd just like to add that it is Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuken freezing here! 
20 Dec 2009, 3:31 pm
20 Dec 2009, 5:51 pm
southwestforests
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20 Dec 2009, 5:57 pm
EC wrote:
and I would call troll on anyone doing it.
Who, me? Naaah. I'm a sweetheart
southwestforests
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20 Dec 2009, 8:08 pm
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Nick Mercer said three test trains sent through the Channel Tunnel on Sunday ran successfully, but that it became clear that the especially bad weather meant that snow was being sucked into the trains in a way "that has never happened before."
"The engineers on board have recommended strongly that, in light of further snowfalls that are happening tonight, we make some modifications to the trains on snow shields to stop snow being ingested into the power car," he told the BBC.
"The engineers on board have recommended strongly that, in light of further snowfalls that are happening tonight, we make some modifications to the trains on snow shields to stop snow being ingested into the power car," he told the BBC.
Just remembered that Pennsylvania Railroad ran into similar trouble with their GG-1 electrics, let me go grab the Pennsy Power book.
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Here we go, February 1958: freak snowstorm produced "Diamond Snow" particles not normal to the region. They got sucked into traction motor blowers, melted and shorted the motors.
And that even though the locos had fine weave Japanese silk snow screens already over the intakes.
Eventually took developing an epoxy resin to coat traction motors and other electrical gizmos in the locos.
That worked, motors would even run submerged
21 Dec 2009, 12:21 am
southwestforests
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21 Dec 2009, 12:51 am
Inventor wrote:
We could not expect the great Eurostar system to ask some hobby model train freaks in the Post Colonial world about how electric trains work and don't work, they are Homo Euro Superior.
Well, why ever not? I'll just neeeeeever understand
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The Gods created Mortals for entertainment.
It sure does look like that at times.
21 Dec 2009, 2:13 am
TallyMan wrote:
As a resident of Northern France I'd just like to add that it is Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuken freezing here!
here in canada we call it nippley
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