Home. Dystopian Present. Environment II by mark andrew york. Another Week of Global Warming News. 2011/07/01: TStar: AECL saga shows Conservatives have no business being in government Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has agreed to sell the reactor division of its billion-dollar crown corporation, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., to the private firm SNC-Lavalin Inc. But taxpayers aren’t guaranteed any money from this sale. In fact, when the back and forth is totalled (Lavalin gives Ottawa $15 million; Ottawa gives Lavalin $75 million), we end up paying $60 million for the privilege of no longer owning that chunk of AECL.
Lavalin gets the lion’s share of the nuclear technology company’s $1.1 billion worth of assets -- including land, buildings and tools. The public, on the other hand, is stuck with all of all of AECL’s $4.5 billion worth of liabilities. That means, says Lavalin vice-president Leslie Quinton, that the public is still responsible for decommission existing AECL atomic reactors and disposing of their waste. Oh yes. AGW Observer. Arctic Sea Ice. Tomorrow, April 1st, I'll be doing a short presentation on the Sea Ice Prediction Workshop that will be webcast by UCAR.
I'll be talking 10-15 minutes about the ASIB, ASIG and ASIF, and about increasing public interest in Arctic sea ice. You can view the webcast here. It was always clear how difficult it is to forecast the Arctic sea ice melting season, but this realization reached an even deeper level in the last two years (more about that a couple of paragraphs below). A lot of scientists are working hard to improve the science of predicting the yearly sea ice minimum, and some of them have now evaluated these forecasting efforts, using data from the interagency "system-scale, cross-disciplinary, long-term arctic research program" SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change) Sea Ice Outlook, which was set up after the drastic sea ice decline of 2007.
These monthly SIO predictions have been extensively covered on the ASIB the past 4 melting seasons. The study by Stroeve et al. Backseat driving. BraveNewClimate. CapitalClimate. Class M.
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