Monday, July 01, 2013
Another 30-second disproof
NSR Marketplace has a feature blaming Evilllllll KKKarbonnnnn for all the ills of the world as boringly usual.
Here's zone 5, including Kankakee:
And here's Indiana zone 1, upstream on the Kankakee River.
The plant was built in 1987, so it had some unusually warm temperatures early on. Then the summer temps dropped for ten years, until 2010 which was unusually hot, but still not up to the '80s. After 2010 the trend appears to be down again.
So where's the infinitely upward trend? Not in the weather near the plant, not in the upstream weather.
The precip in those three zones is more complicated. Generally up from the 1930s to the 1990s, seems to be heading back down now, but not back to the 30s yet. Nothing dramatic in any of the zones.
Might be a problem from the city of Kankakee? Perhaps changes in sewage treatment causing the river to warm up?
Over in the nuclear industry, some power plants have already made recalculations and adjustments. Since 1999, the Braidwood plant in Illinois has had to put in two requests with the Nuclear Regulatory Agency to increase the temperature limits on their cooling ponds. Krista Lopykinski is with Exelon, which operates the plant. She says the plant, which is almost 30 years old, first had to get permission from the NRC to use cooling pond water above 98 degrees. Then, last year, 100 degrees. “In the report, it refers to meteorological conditions,” Lopykinski says of the NRC request. “Basically, the water was getting warmer.”Okay, let's look at Evilllll KKKarbonnnn's effects on that part of the world. Braidwood is near Kankakee, roughly on the line between NCDC's climate divisions 2 and 5. Here's the summer century record for Illinois zone 2, which includes the Chicago metro area:
Here's zone 5, including Kankakee:
And here's Indiana zone 1, upstream on the Kankakee River.
The plant was built in 1987, so it had some unusually warm temperatures early on. Then the summer temps dropped for ten years, until 2010 which was unusually hot, but still not up to the '80s. After 2010 the trend appears to be down again.
So where's the infinitely upward trend? Not in the weather near the plant, not in the upstream weather.
The precip in those three zones is more complicated. Generally up from the 1930s to the 1990s, seems to be heading back down now, but not back to the 30s yet. Nothing dramatic in any of the zones.
Might be a problem from the city of Kankakee? Perhaps changes in sewage treatment causing the river to warm up?Labels: Carbon Cult
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