Citation Jos G.J. Olivier, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, and Jeroen A.H.W. Peters, Trends in Global CO2 Emissions: 2012 Report, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and European Commission Joint Research Center (2012) China emits the most carbon dioxide in aggregate, but the United States produces 2.4 times as much per capita From the press release: The 3% increase [...]
Categories: Climate change,Environment,Global warming
Tagged: China, CO2 emissions, EDGAR, Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research, emitter, European Union, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, India, Japan, Jeroen A.H.W. Peters, Jos G.J. Olivier, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Russian Federation, United States
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- 22 July 2012 – 19:16
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“Tsunami, here, in Japan?” After Japan’s 9.0 magnitude quake, I wondered why anyone would position a nuclear power plant in a violent earthquake zone, where a tsunami might hit it. It turns out the planners and regulators were just categorically stupid: Yukinobu Okamura, a prominent seismologist, warned of a debilitating tsunami in June 2009 at [...]
Categories: Environment,Ethics,Science
Tagged: 869, 9.0. diesel, Chico Harlan, cooling system, David Nakamura, earthquake, Fukushima Daiichi, generators, Japan, Japnese nuclear plant's safety analysts brushed off risk of tsunami, meltdown, radiation, TEPCO, Tokyo Electric Power Company
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- 24 March 2011 – 08:38
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- By BrainiYak
See numbers 35 and 36 for impression of the extent of crustal movement Number 36 shows approximately a 1 meter drop, rise, or combination displacement in the middle of a road. Citation (with link) Lloyd Young, The Big Picture: Massive earthquake hits Japan, Boston Globe (11 March 2011)
Categories: Environment,Science
Tagged: Boston Globe, crustal movement, displacement, earthquake, Japan, Lloyd Young, photographs, tectonic plate
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- 14 March 2011 – 07:56
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I may be speaking too soon, but — Why would one build a nuclear power plant in one of the most earthquake prone regions of the world, where a tsunami might hit it? And if you did build it in a vulnerable place, why would you put its cooling system’s back-up diesel generators where water [...]
Categories: Environment,Public Health
Tagged: 8.9, back-up, cooling, diesel, earthquake, Fukushima, generator, Japan, leak, nuclear power, Prefecture, radiation, seawater, tsunami, water
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- 12 March 2011 – 18:48
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- By BrainiYak