From the “cooling towers are evil fossil fuel icons” department and the mind of Greenpeace comes this hilariously funny (and stupid) tweet. It demonstrates the usual m.o. of Greenpeace these days, blind uneducated vandalism in the name of a cause. Mind you, this isn’t some rogue splinter faction of Greenpeace putting out this photo, it’s the central office.
What these bozo activists don’t seem to understand (along with many journalists that make the same mistake) is that cooling towers emit clouds of steam and water vapor, not carbon dioxide. Even the highly liberal ABC in Australia gets this:
Rightfully, the Galileo movement helpfully fixed the billboard for the Greenpeacers in a followup Tweet:
This is obviously a Photoshop job, but wouldn’t it be great if we could identify where this vandalized billboard is at, and have somebody fix it for real?
Maybe they understand that water vapor is the number 1 greenhouse gas
The photo is from here http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/26/campaigners-mass-climate-action-paris-conference-noam-chomsky?CMP=share_btn_tw
The photo is of a cooling tower at a coal fired power plant in Oxfordshire, UK.
The original Greenpeace tweet contained a link to The Guardian article that says it is a coal-fired power plant.
WUWT may wish to update its post regarding this item.
Bull.
These towers are nuclear icons. (*)
So they have to emit nuclear “radiations” (*).
And in the Simpsons they can acid rains (**).
(*) It’s annoying that not all nuclear plants have them.
(**) Radionuclides is a word too complicated for children and Greenpiss activists, distinction between radiations and radionuclides gives them headaches. And “radiated water” leaks from Fukushima Daiichi. I like “radiated” water.
(***) I think Burns’ plant is a representation of every polluting power plant or industry. TV entertainment doesn’t need to always be perfectly accurate, but some Grauniad commenters like to argue “based on the legal knowledge I got watching TV shows”… Some people think TV is reality. (****)
(****) See how these “footnotes” make my comment so serious and sciency?
Not knowing anything is their trademark and specialty.
Why are there no comments allowed in the next post on NASA’s Broken Science?
[Not clear, don’t know right now. .mod]
Didn’t Penn & Teller do a show where they convinced environmental activists sign a petition to ban water (they used the chemical name instead of H2O or water)? Maybe we can get the same ones to ban the steam coming out of this administration.
Yes, they did. I’ve mentioned this before here, but for the last five years or so when I was teaching a college essay-writing class I had a “guest speaker” (a friend of mine) come in half-way through the semester and give a lecture on the dangers of DHMO, after which he would give the class a petition to sign banning all foods prepared with DHMO from municipal properties. During that entire time only two students didn’t sign it (one because she didn’t think it would do any good, the other because she didn’t think I would actually allow a petition to be sent around in my class — which she was right about). Afterwards my friend and I would reveal what DHMO really was and then I would rail at the students for daring to sign a petition restricting other people’s choices based solely on the “information” presented by one person.
It’s not water vapour, it’s yucky ucky black carbon pollution….Look…
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2010/3/10/1268222690808/Eggborough-power-station-001.jpg
Unlike the following depiction of pure emitted life-giving oxygen..
http://www.stewgreen.com/irrational_world/climatephotos/wind6.jpg
Just look at how black the poisonous carbon pollution has made these cooling towers.
http://www.v3.co.uk/IMG/138/129138/nuclear-cooling-towers.jpg
We’re dooooomed…..
jones,
It’s probably just a coincidence that those pics are always taken with the sun behind the clouds of steam. They wouldn’t really want the clouds to look black, would they?
“They wouldn’t really want the clouds to look black, would they?”
Ooooh yes…The blacker the better….
Playing devil’s advocate for a moment, the generation of steam requires heat input. The fact that they have the stack means they had a boiler.
Now we know the Greenpeace group isn’t the most scientifically knowledgeable, and are downright illiterate when it comes to engineering, so they chose the wrong stack to photograph.
However, I call the “Fallacy Fallacy”. Simply because your opponent commits a fallacy does not mean they are wrong, so this line of mockery is not valid. It’s amusing, but it’s not reason. Please remember that, y’all.
Which is why it is marked as a “Friday Funny.” To give the rest of us some comedic relief from the usual fare.
I know. I don’t want to stop the mirth, just reign in the elation over what is in reality a minor detail.
Hey Ben! “Simply because your opponent commits a fallacy does not mean they are wrong, so this line of mockery is not valid.”
I would disagree; here’s why. This mockery was not an attempt to show that the warmists are wrong. There are plenty of other articles on this site which demonstrate that. This particular mockery was an attempt to show that the warmists are generally stupid. I think it succeeded.
It would be even funnier if that cooling tower turned out to be attached to a nuclear power plant.
Ironic to me that in the 1950’s all one had to do was look out the window to see a haze of coal smoke over any small town or big city, it didn’t matter what country. The human race really has cleaned up it’s act and the air and water show it.
Like every other movement that starts out beneficial, extremists have moved in to push the ecology movement into a frenzy of idealism that has become completely incoherent of reality and science.
Scientific jargon has very few words which invoke emotion, so it is useless to the campaigners.
The most numerous and vocal supporters of this movement are in their 20s or low 30s, and are too young to remember the bad old days. Many are so inoculated that we are going to heck in a handbasket that they actually reject even EPA data that shows that air quality is improving.
Trust me, that was an infuriating discussion. It was almost as bad as dealing with the Flat Earth Society.
I think you are being a bit unfair to we members of the Flat Earth Society.
If you accept the consensus view that the earth is roughly spherical, how can you ever have a level playing field (LPF)?
The middle of such a theoretical construction would be nearer the centre of gravity of this proposed sphere than the edges, so if a billiard ball was placed on a perfectly smooth LPF it would roll towards the centre.
Not what level means on my understanding.
Don’t give the Auustralian ABC too much credit. It only took then 20 years to correct the mistake and only then after many corrections. This is the station that has a science advisor on staff that believews sea level rise will be between 8 stories high to 100m. They also cheered on the Antarctic Ship of Fools that were stranded in ice they predicted wasn’t there.
In Hunter Valley NSW the power company anticipated this by setting up its OWN roadside billboards. These inform the ignorant and greenies (BIRM) that they are emitting clouds of clean water from their cooling towers.
Enjoyable commentary yáll. As pointed out by some, the actual CO2 as said comes out of the tall chimneys but is invisible. The scrubber equipment is so efficient it no longer produces a lot of black smoke like it does in cheap China that has not bothered about clean air until quite recently. The area over a big coal powered station is a no fly zone because any engine that will need oxygen as part of its engine input will suddenly stop because when in full cry there is virtually 100% emission which is oxygen free, so the aircraft would be in trouble, possibly.
Emission might be able to be photographed with an infra red camera at night. I would show a big inverted cone.
In Oz this minute comparatively would blow out over the vast Pacific Ocean and Southern Ocean, where it would be breathed in by plankton and seagrass which would turn it back into oxygen for us humans to breathe. The Carbon Cycle which we all were shown in out first week in high school biology. Australia produces little CO2 and we also have the biggest set of welcoming lungs on the planet just offshore and onward and out.
Now THAT is a breath of fresh air !
Many thanks and Regards,
WL
During my freshman “Introduction to Engineering” class discussing enthalpy, latent vs. sensible heat and other such topics, the prof took pains to tell us “steam tables” didn’t refer to the stainless steel tubs our cafeteria served its food in.
Just a minor correction on the chemical name of H2O. A chemical is either a “mono” or a “di” (for simplicity), but not both, otherwise they cancel each other out. So I would spring for “di-hydrogen oxide”.
Ian
H2O2 dihydrogen peroxide?
An oldie but a goodie.
http://www.dhmo.org/
(The alarm is the same. The names have been changed to exploit the innocent.)
Activist don’t care about accuracy. They care about impression.
how dumb evrybody knows nuke reactors are safe and clean