Norman Rubin

Mostly retired enviro, energy expert, anti-nuke... And sailor, skier, volleyballer, urban cyclist. Infrequent tweeter. FB addict.

[Norman Rubin @normofthenorth]

@fairpathforward We could help address that pollution if we really wanted to, but apparently we do not. Half of all ocean plastic pollution comes from the maritime industry, and 95% of the other half from 10 heavily populated river systems, 9 in Asia, the other in Africa.

[Norman Rubin @normofthenorth]

@fairpathforward so nice people who support those bans are either ignorant of the facts or they are pursuing a goal other than reducing that problem.

[Norman Rubin @normofthenorth]

@fairpathforward so nice people who support those bans are either ignorant of the facts or they are pursuing a goal other than reducing that problem.

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@fairpathforward will have approximately ZERO effect on that problem.

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@brittlestar @MargaretAtwood Bertrand Russell famously said that if you gave him one falsehood, he could then use logic to derive any other falsehood.
MA's analysis of the ways democracy can be destroyed is great, but she begins from the false premise that CO2 is a huge threat. IPCC's WG1 report debugs it.

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@JessActs So tell the guardians of the congressional purse strings that funding you was good for US tourism!

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@JessActs I hope I give no offense by admitting that when you came on the radio, I would not only interrupt the conversation I was engaged in but I'd also also frequently mutter to my wife "She WANTS me!" because your high-range lilt has such an attractive "come-hither" quality.

[Norman Rubin @normofthenorth]

@JessActs This week, listening to WBUR, I've heard many announcers who sound like your students, but none exceed (or equal) the master. :-(

[Norman Rubin @normofthenorth]

@JessActs I visit the US (from Canada) around 3x/yr, and hearing your announcements on NPR radio is always one of my high points. I've been a professional singer off and on for MANY decades, and I know great vocal technique and diction when I hear it.

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@waterkeepermark We need a bunch of generating stations that virtually or actually NEVER run! Nobody will interconnect with us unless we have capacity to generate 120% of our annual peak demand. We use gas plants for that because we were too dumb to see that coal plants only emit when running.

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@waterkeepermark The notion of replacing NG generators — whose main value is the ability to sit idle when inflexible & cheap supply meets demand & then start generating when it doesn't (e.g., when the sun sets a/o the wind drops a/o some nukes shut down) — w/ nukes is cray-cray.

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@WaterfrontTO The article seems to include many statements about Love Park — some of them even credible! — but not its location.

Where will it be?

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@get_headway Have you seen the recent terrible reviews? They scared me off.

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@RogerPielkeJr What's the special? Isn't US$80/yr the regular price?
I support several other "gurus" @US$60/yr or $5/mo, love your work, but I'm still choking on the $80, sorry.

High price sensitivity or just me?

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@Tzeporah https://t.co/OsIlbb5pfm

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@RogerPielkeJr I think you meant "major hurricane INTENSITY".

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@ErikLindy People who think or say that an inflexible "baseload" source of electricity can address the intermittency of wind and solar don't understand energy very well.
It's been about 24 hours since I've heard that foolishness on CBC Radio. :-(

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@BradyYauch Our easy access to fracked gas while we ban fracking reminds me of our (mostly enhanced) security from the US's "nuclear umbrella". It seems one step past just being a free rider.