18th March - Today's News: Dog Helps It's Injured Canine Pal in Japan's Tsunami Ravaged Landscape
This is a lovely story. I hope these two find a new home together: Loyal dog stands by its injured friend in Japan's tsunami-ravaged landscape. No apologies for making it my headline story.
Elsewhere in Japan, firefighters douse stricken reactor Although outside the remit of this blog, I am very concerned about the ridiculous global knee-jerk reaction to the situation in Japan, leading the many nuclear programmes being reconsidered or curtailed. The event shows if anything how safe nuclear reactors are and what extraordinary events are needed to cause concern even in 40 year old reactors, let alone modern, much safer and robust, designs. The medium term outlook is eneragy shortages and greater reliance on oil and gas supplies from unstable regimes. It may true that wind power cheaper than nuclear - but wind power doesn't work when we need it most in cold winters ...... and in the US, wind shortfalls make grid guys nervous.
Yesterday was the Canaries coldest day in 40 years - it was a similar temperature in Evesham, where in the spring sunshine it felt quite balmy. In contrast, it was also the hottest March day in Mumbai ever!
Snow pack, rains heighten flood risk for much of US
Another stunning photo from the Daily Mail as a rainbow cloud towers over Mount Everest (though actually it's iridescence and the hill is Nuptse)
The UK Met office are introducing the new National Severe Weather Warning Service - and much better than the old system it looks too!
Northern peatlands a misunderstood player in climate change
Islay to get major tidal power scheme - though I wonder what the dolphins and seals think of it all?
And there's weather on other worlds too, as Cassini sees seasonal rains transform Titan's surface
Elsewhere in Japan, firefighters douse stricken reactor Although outside the remit of this blog, I am very concerned about the ridiculous global knee-jerk reaction to the situation in Japan, leading the many nuclear programmes being reconsidered or curtailed. The event shows if anything how safe nuclear reactors are and what extraordinary events are needed to cause concern even in 40 year old reactors, let alone modern, much safer and robust, designs. The medium term outlook is eneragy shortages and greater reliance on oil and gas supplies from unstable regimes. It may true that wind power cheaper than nuclear - but wind power doesn't work when we need it most in cold winters ...... and in the US, wind shortfalls make grid guys nervous.
Yesterday was the Canaries coldest day in 40 years - it was a similar temperature in Evesham, where in the spring sunshine it felt quite balmy. In contrast, it was also the hottest March day in Mumbai ever!
Snow pack, rains heighten flood risk for much of US
Another stunning photo from the Daily Mail as a rainbow cloud towers over Mount Everest (though actually it's iridescence and the hill is Nuptse)
The UK Met office are introducing the new National Severe Weather Warning Service - and much better than the old system it looks too!
Northern peatlands a misunderstood player in climate change
Islay to get major tidal power scheme - though I wonder what the dolphins and seals think of it all?
And there's weather on other worlds too, as Cassini sees seasonal rains transform Titan's surface
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