Seajet
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So the statisticians can read what they want as usual; either it's a pifflingly rare occurrence, or we're due another Tsunami any minute !
National Trust against 'public menace' of wind farms
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electrosys
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So what's so disproportionate about being fearful of some invisible force (which will remain a threat for longer than recorded history) doing unmentionable things to your insides ? I seem to remember Radium didn't do Madame Curie an awful lot of good - well, except to make her famous ...
lustyd
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She was EATING it of course it got her in trouble!! All I'm saying is that there are many other things out there that are just as harmful and things that last just as long. This is why I used the word disproportionate - it's right to worry about it just not to be so completely OTT about it.
If you sit in the sun all day every day you'll get cancer just as badly as having some nuclear waste on your property (obviously not tonnes of it). Many people in Cornwall are surrounded by radiation all day every day from the Granite yet live to old age quite happily - my granddad was 90 having lived there all his life. If the batteries of a Prius are disposed of anywhere near a food/water supply then people/animals/vegetation will start to die off pretty quickly.
To my other point, longevity, there's a patch called the North Pacific Gyre which will be laden with plastic long after you or I have gone. This is a hugely poluted area and yet because the waste is not radioactive it was just dumped. With nuclear waste it has to be tracked everywhere it goes, can't be dumped easily and must be constantly monitored and looked after - I consider this to be better because it's not forgotten.
There are horrific chemicals used in the production of wind farms too, I'm just saying that looking safe and friendly has nothing whatsoever to do with safe and friendly and that things that don't look safe are not necessarily less safe than those that do.
Lakesailor
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Welcome Alex. You've certainly chosen an exciting way to start your sentence in these forums.
I have given up arguing on Global Warming threads as the main protagonists are somewhat entrenched.
Make your own mind up. Have fun.
AntarcticPilot
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Last time I checked - and I have a slight interest in tsunamis in unusual areas - the jury was definitely out on whether it was a tsunami or a storm surge. The general consensus was that it was a surge - the Severn is ideally shaped for that to happen.
Tidewaiter2
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Dont forget the one in medival times which sank Hayling Bay!
alant
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Does it really matter what they call it, it was a F'ing big wave which scoured the land margins all the way up the channel.
Some Severn Bore eh!