Sounds like they think the regulator not getting enough oversight / losing its teeth However, not everyone is in favor of the bill, with critics warning it comprises safety. Senators Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey were the two opposing votes, with the latter arguing that the ADVANCE Act turns the NRC into a facilitator rather than a regulator. "This bill puts promotion over protection, and corporate profits over community clean-up," Markey stated. "The ADVANCE Act, as attached to the Fire Grants and Safety Act, includes language that would require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to rewrite its mission to state that its regulation and oversight should 'not unnecessarily limit' civilian nuclear activity, regardless of whether it is beneficial or detrimental to public safety and national security. The NRC shouldn't be the Nuclear Retail Commission."
They might be for nuclear energy which fucks up the air quality. Here in Australia Peter Dutton wants to cut the cheese and have nuclear energy. Not only the air quality will be awful, it will also reek
Nuclear power is one of the biggest ways to generate electricity without outputting carbon. The biggest issue usually has been disposal of spent nuclear rods as well as the enormous cost to build or expand a nuclear power plant.
Yeah it is but it fucks up climate change. It's also expensive Also take a look at this instagram grab
Get rid of your country's guns. Too many violent dickheads in your country who shoot people. It would solve half your global warming issues you fuckheads
She's kind of on the right track, almost every piece of shit that loves guns in this country is also a global warming denier.
Rare Florida cactus becomes first US species lost to sea rise Rare Florida cactus becomes first US species lost to sea rise A rare species of tree cactus has gone extinct in Florida, in what is believed to be the first species lost to sea level rise in the United States, researchers said Tuesday. A rare species of tree cactus has gone extinct in Florida, in what is believed to be the first species lost to sea level rise in the United States. The Key Largo tree cactus (Pilosocereus millspaughii) was restricted to a single small population in the Florida Keys, an archipelago off the southern tip of the state, first discovered in 1992 and monitored intermittently since then. But salt water intrusion caused by rising seas, soil erosion from storms and high tides, and herbivory by mammals placed significant pressure on the last population. By 2021, a once-thriving group of roughly 150 stems in an isolated mangrove forest had dramatically declined to six fragile, struggling fragments, which researchers relocated for off-site cultivation in a bid to ensure their survival. "Unfortunately, the Key Largo tree cactus may be a bellwether for how other low-lying coastal plants will respond to climate change," said Jennifer Possley, the director of regional conservation at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Possley is the lead author on a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas documenting the decline of the species. Key Largo tree cacti continue to grow on a few scattered Caribbean islands, including northern Cuba and parts of the Bahamas. These plants can reach heights exceeding 20 feet (six meters) and feature cream-colored flowers with a garlic scent that gleam in moonlight, drawing bat pollinators. Their vivid red and purple fruits are also highly attractive to birds and mammals. Human-caused climate change is leading to water from melting ice sheets and glaciers flowing into the world's oceans. Additionally, as water in the ocean warms it expands slightly. Both factors contribute to sea level rise.
It’s been absolutely miserable in Philly with heat index over 100 multiple times and super high dew points. I believe this is La Nina related impacts for us but it’s absolutely awful.
FWIW, it wouldn't be impacts from La Nina yet...it's actually been slower to develop than anticipated and while El Nino is gone, we haven't gotten to La Nina yet. The issue the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic has had has been a persistent, stronger than usual ridge of high pressure over the Northeast Atlantic. It's helping to limit any cooler and wetter spells (that have been impacting the Midwest) from making any real inroads along the East Coast.
You can really see the impact it is having with the SST anomalies off the Canadian Maritimes. Warmest SST anomalies on the globe. Spoiler
Cooooool cool cool Days are getting slightly longer — and it's due to climate change Climate change is causing widespread global impacts, but now scientists are finding that it's altering the very planet itself. Earth's rotation is slowing down, extending the length of a day ever so slightly. As temperatures rise, massive amounts of ice are melting from Greenland and Antarctica. That meltwater flows into the oceans, redistributing the mass closer to the equator. When the planet is thicker around the middle, its daily rotation takes a bit longer. https://www.npr.org/2024/07/18/nx-s...-OHt1m8q-5Ikr84WAU_aem_ZKcoOj6oNI9apS0xih_bYw
this is, ummmm, bad. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12447 Basically, the terrestrial carbon sink -- Earth's land plants ability absorb & store excess carbon -- seems to be rapidly declining - most likely due to higher temps (due to warming + last year's El Nino) and all the fires and drought (also due to warming). Means an acceleration of carbon concentration in the atmosphere.
The issue around nuclear waste is over blown in our country, most of it is uneducated and fear based. For one all of the spent uranium used since nuclear power began in the US can fit on a football field some 15 ft deep. The most radioactive of it should just be sent to Yucca mountain and stored. What really should be done is a case study on France and a lot of it should be implemented here in the US. France gets 70% of their power generation from nuclear 96% of spent nuclear fuel is recycled in France (The United States does not recycle our nuclear fuel) only 4% comes out as high level radioactive waste which is then stored. This would reduce nuclear waste in the United States even further. https://www.orano.group/en/unpacking-nuclear/all-about-radioactive-waste-in-france
yeah and then you get horrible events such as Chenobyl that causes plenty of people to have Leukaemia.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/20/sta...commute-to-seattle-instead-of-relocating.html Starbucks’ new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating
someone do the maths on the climate / environmental impact of flying 2,000 miles a day, 5 days a week on a private jet.