Moderator: Peak Moderation
Robin Pagnamenta, Energy and Environment Editor wrote:France is being forced to import electricity from Britain to cope with a
summer heatwave that has helped to put a third of its nuclear power
stations out of action.
With temperatures across much of France surging above 30C this week,
EDF’s reactors are generating the lowest level of electricity in six
years, forcing the state-owned utility to turn to Britain for additional
capacity.
We're all frogs in the big global warming saucepan. Even the ones who realise this can't jump out and turn the heat off, without a lot more helpPapillon wrote:Speaking of boiling frogs, have you ever heard of the 'boiling frog syndrom'? It goes like this - if you were to boil a frog (just for clarification, I do actually mean a frog, NOT a human of any nationality), the best way to go about it is to place it in lukewarm water and slowly heat it up. It would happily stay in there and boil away. This kind of knowledge helped me when I quit smoking (don't ask why).
Nice and warm though isn't itJohnB wrote:We're all frogs in the big global warming saucepan. Even the ones who realise this can't jump out and turn the heat off, without a lot more helpPapillon wrote:Speaking of boiling frogs, have you ever heard of the 'boiling frog syndrom'? It goes like this - if you were to boil a frog (just for clarification, I do actually mean a frog, NOT a human of any nationality), the best way to go about it is to place it in lukewarm water and slowly heat it up. It would happily stay in there and boil away. This kind of knowledge helped me when I quit smoking (don't ask why).
Seems like the frog is smarter than us.Kieran wrote:>pedantic mode on<
The boiling frog syndrome makes a great metaphor, unfortunately it's just not true:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
I think I heard it from Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth (live in Sheffield of all places).Papillon wrote:Speaking of boiling frogs, have you ever heard of the 'boiling frog syndrom'? It goes like this - if you were to boil a frog (just for clarification, I do actually mean a frog, NOT a human of any nationality), the best way to go about it is to place it in lukewarm water and slowly heat it up. It would happily stay in there and boil away. This kind of knowledge helped me when I quit smoking (don't ask why).
