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In reply to the discussion: Hot Water From Fukushima is Entering Pacific Ocean [View all]RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)57. It's gone personal
For some reason people are going off the deep end and just ignoring the signs of the water getting warmer than usual. I have seen no alternative reasoning for the evident sign of warming, and common sense is that the melted nuclear cores are doing what they are meant to do: Heat water.
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RobertEarl is trolling us all because he has been calling environmentalists "climate deniers" here
CreekDog
Apr 2013
#25
thanks for directing everyone to your thread --they will quickly see the issue with you
CreekDog
Apr 2013
#71
You have no idea about the amount of energy needed to heat that much water by 4 degrees, do you...
SidDithers
Apr 2013
#14
'Could be'? You think a massive river has suddenly appears in Japan, right by Fukushima?
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2013
#40
I'm ambivalant about nukes; there are many anti-nuke DUers telling you you're totally wrong
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2013
#51
Please don't embarrass yourself further by quoting unrelated numbers
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2013
#53
My God!! Look at the high temperature blob off the coast of Japan in this survey!!...
SidDithers
Apr 2013
#13
So please show me how three runaway meltdowns next to it are just a coincidence?
Octafish
Apr 2013
#86
So how do you explain similar temperature plumes that were present before Fukushima?...
SidDithers
Apr 2013
#87
This thread, while the topic is serious, the interplay of the posters arguments is much like
Trillo
Apr 2013
#47
Discuss? The OP is implying that a very tiny amount of energy is heating a goddamn ocean.
Gravitycollapse
Apr 2013
#88
Your claim is that the water is heating the ocean. That is what I commented on.
Gravitycollapse
Apr 2013
#95
if you have the means to do it- move to the souther hemisphere...the northern sphere is doomed/done
ElsewheresDaughter
Jun 2013
#97