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Chapter XIX
"Owwww! What's in that damn stuff?"
The oldest prince of Erebor was tucked away in his bedrooms, stripped down to a flimsy pair of underpants and nothing else for his medical evaluation. His younger brother and Bilbo were sitting on either side of his bed, both holding down Fíli's twitching limbs while Óin applied some of his salves to the open wound. Poor Fíli had become even more pale after they'd reached his room, skin becoming clammy and heart rate increasing as the first stages of infection set in. Thankfully, the traitor's blade had not been poisoned with a toxic agent, which had been Óin's worst fear.
"Did you see how rusty that blade was?" said Óin, his fingers carefully picking at severely damaged tissue with a pair of tweezers. "Nastier than an orc's blade, it was. And the chances of you contracting lockjaw are very high, but the faster I clean out this wound with my salve, the less likely you are to develop the worst symptoms. Now hold still, I've almost finished the debridement. Or would you rather I use the maggots?"
Eyes widening in horror, Fíli shook his head. "No, no, I like tweezers. They're not squirmy and wormy and maggoty and…"
"Here, take another sip," said Bilbo, holding the pain tonic to Fíli's mouth. "Just a lil' bit, there you go. It'll take some of that nasty edge off."
"Why couldn't I be knocked out again?"
"Because you've lost far too much blood for my liking," answered Óin. He had an unpleasant looking set of scalpels in his hands now. "I'd prefer that you ingest some food or warm drink before we let you fall asleep. It'll help replenish some of your lost strength and fight off the infection."
The Dwarf-King came bursting through the bedroom doors, something that he'd been doing more and more often as of late. Several members of the Royal Council could be heard in the corridor, all of them demanding clarification from the harried King about reconstructive damages, retribution, and the possibility of war with the home kingdom of the traitors. With a flick of his wrist, Balin slammed the door shut and then gave it a rather disdainful glare.
"Like a bunch of babbling toddlers, the whole lot of them," muttered the elderly dwarf. "Mahâl save us all from inborn stupidity."
"What happened?" demanded Thorin, stopping at the foot of his nephew's bed to examine the open wound. It was angry and swollen red, Óin trying his hardest to remove all the damaged tissues in and around it. "Who did this?!"
"Bilbo skewered him like a wild boar!" said Kíli with a cruel smile.
"It was quite the sight, watching a small hobbit stab straight through a full grown dwarf like that," crowed Bofur upon his arrival. Frodo was holding his hand and walking beside him, newly cleaned and clothed in a fresh pair of pajamas. Rupert, as usual, was a constant presence in his drooping arms. "Don't reckon I'd like to see it again, though. I'd much prefer our hobbit-y burglar remain just what he likes being, all paternal and garden-making and cooking extraordinaire of Erebor."
"Not for at least a few days, Fíli," said Bilbo, readying the razor blade to shave off all of the hair on the prince's injured thigh. "We need to get some hardier foods and warm liquids into you first, but after that, you can have all the icy cupcakes that your dwarfy lil' heart desires."
Óin nodded in grim satisfaction at the irritated wound. "I've cleared away as much of the damaged tissues as I can, but infection's still a possibility. We'll have to make sure nothing gets into it. Oh, and you can start now, Bilbo."
"I feel bald already," Fíli grumbled. "A dwarf with no leg hair…"
"Button up, you whiny whelp," said the healer. "He'll only shave the hair directly around the wound site. You'll still look pretty for the lasses, so stop your belly-aching. Is my box of salves here yet?"
"Glóin's getting them," assured Bofur. He was sitting on a plush couch in front of the fireplace, Frodo sleepily watching the miner whittle away at yet another toy for him. It was an extremely endearing sight to the older hobbit. "You'll be able to hear him bashing his way through all those grey-beards out in the hall."
"Okay, Thorin, Kíli?" called Óin, gesturing to the prince's limbs. "I'm gonna need you to hold him down while I rub some of this into the lesion. It'll sting something fierce, but this salve works wonders in preventing lockjaw. Now hold still…"
The affect was immediate, a scream of agony ripping from Fíli's throat as he tried to squirm away from the burning salve. His uncle and brother held him down, muscles in their arms and legs straining as the oldest prince tried to kick them off of him. Bilbo himself moved to the side, eyes shifting between Fíli and the chair where Bofur was attempting to distract Frodo from the prince's cries of pain.
"Did you have to bring him here?"
Bofur shrugged with a sad smile. "He was fine during the bubble bath and when I treated his head wound, but he refused to sleep without you there. And then I accidentally told him that Thorin and you were over here and he ran out the door on me. Charged right through the council members, too."
"Awww, my poor lil' Frodo," cooed Bilbo, picking the little boy up from Bofur's lap and cuddling him close with a kiss atop the head. "This truly has been a dreadful day, hasn't it?"
Frodo just grumbled at him.
"Aye, it most certainly was," agreed Bofur, tongue sticking out in concentration as he carved something intricate into his wooden…oliphant, maybe? "I'm mightily hoping a certain brother of mine doesn't truly decide to make roasted traitor stew. I don't think any of the local bears would be amenable to it."
Bilbo blinked in horror. "Wait, wait, Bombur's actually going to make a stew out of them? That's barbaric!"
"Well, he won't if they confess and spill their guts," said Bofur with a frightening amount of nonchalance. "Thorin will deal with them after that, but maybe the bears and wolves really would like some extra sustenance before hibernation. No matter how nasty it may be taste-wise."
"Valar save me from raging, sadistic dwarves," murmured Bilbo, wandering back over to the bed again. "I'm going to have nightmares for the rest of my life thanks to the last few…hours? Days? I don't even know anymore."
"He's passed out," sighed Óin. "Poor lad."
"Will he be alright? Being unconscious with the blood loss, that is?" asked Bilbo, tucking Frodo's face into his neck so that he wouldn't see the open wound. "I've heard a lot of bad stories about people not waking back up."
"A half-hour ago, I would've been very concerned," explained the healer. "But at this point, Fíli being unconscious is mostly a boon, both for us and himself. I'll be able to fully treat the wound without having to worry about his pain level and his body can begin fighting off the infection that's bound to come."
Kíli was off to the side of them, retelling the whole assassination story to Thorin, grand gestures of his arms showing what the hobbit had done to protect his older brother and kill the traitor. Bilbo tried to interject when the young dwarf embellished some parts of the incident, but Kíli would have none of it and dramatically waved off any denial the hobbit attempted to put forth. Sighing in exasperation, Bilbo wished that Kíli would not describe his actions in such vicious, gory detail. Quite frankly, the hobbit would've been happy to never speak or even think about the attack again.
"He was going to hurt Fíli," reasoned Bilbo, flushing under the intense stare that Thorin was giving him. "And, well…I had to do something. Honestly, I'm surprised my sword actually went…umm, through him. Like, yes, like that. Thank you for that lovely demonstration, little bird."
Thorin's eyes narrowed. "How did you learn about that?"
"Well, you see," stuttered Bilbo, "I'm not quite sure how it all began, but—"
"He's been exchanging letters with mother," interrupted Kíli, standing between the two of them now with a wide smirk. "She even told him about Fíli's nickname, too. Very good sign. Our mother's a great judge of character."
"From one letter?"
"Depends on your definition of letter," drawled the youngest prince. "But she has all of her information on very good authority. Very, very good." The brunette was inching away from his uncle at this point. "But she's not very happy with you."
The King looked indignant. "About what?"
"Really," said Thorin, his arms crossed and eyes fixed on his nephew. "And what would those things be?"
"I'm not allowed to disclose that. Mother's orders."
Bilbo glanced between the uncle and nephew, more than little curious about what Thorin's sister could be so frustrated with him about. Of course, there was the usual, like how Thorin's unhealthy obsession with that stupid Arkenstone had nearly gotten both of her sons killed and started a multinational war between the elves, dwarves, and men. The hobbit could very easily understand her anger and frustration towards those horrid events, since Bilbo himself still felt a little miffed about them, too.
"Uh huh, well, we'll see about that when—"
"All done," said Óin from his place at Fíli's bedside. "It'll have to be checked at least once every two hours, but my poultice should do quite fine for keeping away some of the worst infection. Here, Bilbo, I'll show you how to properly make one, in case I'm not available for various reasons in the coming days."
"Of course, I'll be right over," said Bilbo. He walked up to Thorin and very gently moved Frodo into the Dwarf-King's confused arms, the sleepy halfling snuffling around a little bit before settling down again. "And look at that, not a single fuss. He probably feels safer with you than with me."
"Awww, see, he really does like you, Uncle. I told you so."
"Stop teasing, Kíli, and go take a bath," ordered Bilbo on his return to the bed. "It smells like soot and wet dwarf in here. Or would you prefer a sponge bath like your older brother will be receiving?"
The youth was already in the washroom when Bilbo turned around. Nodding with a satisfied smile, the hobbit turned back to Óin and the injured prince. The King gaped at him in surprise.
"Good boys. They just need a firm hand and the right threats, is all."
"The entertainment has been so delightful around here as of late," said Balin in the background to Bofur. "And I do believe our young Ori might very well be writing a book on it."
"Indeed, he is," replied Bofur. "Very slow going, but an interesting read. The lad agreed to translate it into Khuzdul for Bifur once it's finished."
"Thorin will have a chicken when he finds out about it. A very large chicken."
"Aye, that I believe."
Bilbo spent the next half-hour with Óin at Fíli's bedside, carefully going over the various treatments they'd be applying to the oldest prince. Lockjaw was fairly rare in the race of dwarves, most of them possessing a natural resistance to the disease that plagued humans and elves alike. However, it wasn't unheard of for a particularly filthy wound to result in the severe muscle spasms that were so characteristic of the terrible disease. Fíli would have to be watched closely in the coming days.
"Here, Thorin, I'll take Frodo for you," said Bilbo once the healer and himself had finished their demonstrations and discussions. "Kíli's just finished with his bath and you, well, you've got soot and…blood in your hair. There's not much we can do here until Fíli awakens and I'm sure the prisoners will keep for the night."
"Bilbo's trying to politely say that you stink, Uncle," snickered Kíli from his spot at the bottom of his brother's large bed. "And you've got a sticker bush bulb stuck on the left braid of your hair."
"I think Kíli's gone slap-happy," muttered Bilbo, gently placing Frodo down next to the giggling dwarf. He then draped a knitted blanket over the pair of brunette youths, a warm smile spreading across his face at the sight. "Could you keep an eye on him for me, little bird? I feel like a troll sneezed boogies all over me again."
"Nah, you were grosser back then," mumbled Kíli from beneath the blanket. "I've got the pointy-eared munchkin. And Rupert. We're good."
"Everything's handled, laddie," assured the elderly dwarf. "The traitors will keep through the night. Although they might have a few more holes in them come morning. It won't hurt to grab a few hours of shut-eye, though. And that includes you, Thorin. All of the prisoners can wait until tomorrow for their punishments."
The King grumbled as he disappeared into Fíli's washroom.
"I'll be back in a few minutes," said Bilbo, smiling at the influence that Balin had over the stubborn King. "Just need to bathe and get a change of—"
"Don't worry, laddie," interrupted Balin. "Bofur and I will be here the whole time. And believe it or not, I've actually been around these two since their births. Like you said, all they need is a firm hand."
"And good threats," added Bofur.
True to his word, Bilbo returned less than a half-hour later. Dressed in his pajamas and favorite night robe, the hobbit chuckled inwardly at the sight of five sleeping dwarves and one little hobbit. Óin, Bofur, and Balin were all sound asleep on the plush couches in front of the fireplace, papers and salves and tonics scattered about the tables that lined the walls. Retrieving a few more blankets, Bilbo draped them over the dwarves and then went over to the bed.
"Shhh, it's just me, Kíli," whispered the hobbit. The youngest prince was gazing up at him through droopy eyes, Bilbo instinctively reaching out to smooth down his wild hair. "Go back to sleep. I'm checking on your brother now."
Kíli just snuffled and burrowed back into the blankets.
And then a thick arm was suddenly wrapped around Bilbo's chest. "I don't think I'll ever be able to thank you enough for everything you've done for them. My nephews, my heirs, would be gone if it wasn't for you."
"I would die for them," admitted Bilbo, tenderly fingering Fíli's moustache braid. "They're amazing, silly, rambunctious boys and I love them for it. This whole day was so long and terrible, I just couldn't…"
Thorin's arm tightened. "Tell me."
"I'm a hobbit, Thorin. I'm not a dwarf. We hobbits don't fight and brawl and cut off fingers and threaten to turn our criminals into stew. It's just not how we do things in the Shire. We like our gardens and food and doilies and never doing anything that might disturb the peace. Oh, and we like to eat our seven meals a day, which I've been missing quite consistently over the past few years. Lobelia Sackville-Baggins had the utter nerve to call me scrawny last time she saw me!"
"Are you unhappy?" whispered the Dwarf-King.
"About today's events? Yes, very much so," said Bilbo, fingers working at a knot in Fíli's golden mane. "About living here in general? No, I'm not. I can't even imagine a life without everyone here anymore. I do miss Bag End, but I'd miss these halls and these two goofy boys even more." He paused, uncertain about his thought. "And I'd miss you."
If possible, Thorin's arm tightened even more, his bigger and hairier hand joining Bilbo's in his attempts to untangle Fíli's filthy, twisted hair. They really did need to give him a good sponge bath soon.
"I reacted terribly when Frodo first went missing. Too shocked to attack any of the traitors like the mothers did," confessed the hobbit. "But seeing that…that bastard charge after Fíli with a knife like that? It must've been the straw that broke the oliphant's back. I don't even remember attacking him, to be truthful."
The King's warmth was addictive, Bilbo concluded, because he would've been an absurdly happy hobbit if he could've just stayed there for the rest of his life. Thorin was a furnace at his back, one arm wrapped around Bilbo's chest while the other reached out to soothe his nephew's troubled brow. The soft snores of Frodo and Kíli could be heard just to the left of them, both of them snuggled beneath one of Ori's knitted blankets. To Bilbo, these four people were his family now.
"Would you just kiss already?"
A pair of hazy blue eyes were watching them, Fíli's chapped lips curled into a tiny smile at the adults above him. The oldest prince even had the gall to snicker when Bilbo's pointy ears flushed bright red at the tips. And with the excuse of having pain tonics in his system, Fíli was going to speak what was on his mind about this whole starry-eyed ordeal, damn the consequences.
"We like him, mother likes him, and everyone else likes him. Well, except maybe the council members, but who gives a damned hoot what they think. And he'd make a great, fantastic, amazing, vanilla-cupcake-baking uncle," declared Fíli. He was pointing at both of them, which would've been more serious if the prince was actually wearing more than a puny pair of underpants. "And Uncle's been trying to court you for weeks now, but he's been going about it all wrong and he won't read the damn book we found for him on hobbits and… and…"
Bilbo glanced up at the King after a half-minute, but Thorin seemed to be hiding in the hobbit's drying curls now. Deciding that he'd have to be the bigger adult here, Bilbo leaned forward and gently prompted, "And what, Fíli?"
"I don't feel good."
And then the oldest prince vomited on the both of them.
Lockjaw is another name for tetanus, in case anyone was wondering. And there you go, pain meds made Fíli spill the beans about the whole situation. He's sick of cultural differences and stubbornness getting between him and his regular supply of cupcakes. I almost feel sorry for Bilbo and Thorin, having to deal with the human equivalent of two teenagers and a pre-schooler. Plus, all three of them are boys, which makes it even worse.


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The masteries shown here are not yet updated for the current season, the guide author needs to set up the new masteries. As such, they will be different than the masteries you see in-game.
Pros / Cons
This build mostly has Pros. The Pros to using Master Yi as an Attack speed Critical Chance Champion, is that in a 1v1, Master Yi can not only do a LOT of damage, but also get out quickly (seeing as how using the build I chose, his MS shoots to almost 500 ((571 with Ultimate Skill)) ). But also in a team fight, Master Yi can hit up to 4 Champions, dealing lots of damage to each of them. So therefore, being a very good team player.
The Cons to this is that Master is very Squishy (Unarmored basically) throughout the whole game. Therefore you need lots of movement speed (thats where your Ultimate comes in.)
Skill Sequence
Basically for skills, you want to rush your WUJU STYLE and MEDITATION. But also Utilizing the use of ALPHA STRIKE. (Even out the distribution of skills basically.) The way you would use your skills for this build, is right before you engage, use you WUJU STYLE, then ALPHA STRIKE your opponent. After the effects of WUJU STYLE wear off, use your HIGHLANDER ability and Auto Attack, ALPHA STRIKING every chance you get (seeing as how you can't be hit during it.)


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Britain has a long tradition of migration ranging from the Romans, Irish, and Jews in the early 20th Century. Contrary to popular belief, black people were established before the 1940s, according to the author and broadcaster, David Olusoga.
It was not until after 1948 that significant numbers of black people settled in the UK, mostly coming from the South East Asian sub-continent and Caribbean Islands.
By the 1950s black ethnic minority groups numbered 100,000. Most settled in specific urban areas of the country, including inner-London, Bradford, Birmingham and Leicester. Many came to Britain for a better standard of living. Others were directly recruited to fill job shortages in low-wage sectors of the economy such as public transport, public services like the NHS and traditional industries in the Midlands.
Both major political parties at the time felt that Britain as the ''mother country'' had a moral obligation to give commonwealth immigrants a home, a job and a form of security for their loyalty to the Empire. Thousands played a significant role in defeating Hitler during the Second World War.
Sadly, many of these people were not welcomed by the indigenous white population. Polls carried out in the 1950s revealed that racism and prejudice based on skin colour was widespread. Black migrants were directly discriminated against in areas such as housing, schooling and pay. Urban unrest with a strong racial element erupted in London's Notting Hill district in 1958. By 1961 opinion polls revealed large numbers of people favoured immigration control.
It was clear to many that 'race' and immigration had become a major political issue. Yet during the fifties governments were hesitant to discuss the issue. Neither Labour nor the Conservatives wanted to be seen as either pro-migrant or anti-migrant, for it could have been electorally and politically damaging to the nation's relations with the commonwealth.
Pressure from the electorate on to the 'political elite' caused governments to acknowledge the issue. In 1962 the Conservative administration passed the Commonwealth Immigration Act restricting black immigration – a law seen by some academics at the time as racist. Yet, as the political scientist David Butler noted, it's very rare for the bulk of the population to force an issue onto the major parties: a situation repeating itself today.
In 1964 Labour lost an important seat at Smethwick in the Midlands to a Conservative candidate who had an overt racist, anti-immigration line to his policy. This convinced Labour's leadership that the issue of immigration couldn't be left out of domestic politics. As Richard Crossman, a former Cabinet Minister under Harold Wilson, noted, "Ever since the Smethwick election it has become quite clear that immigration can be the greatest potential vote loser for the Labour Party.''
By 1965 both parties had adopted a ''bi-partisan'' approach to the race issue. Labour to its credit passed the Race Relations Act which established the Race Relations Board which had powers to probe cases of racial discrimination and bring them to court. Yet left- wing critics doubted the new law was in the interests of racial equality. The then Labour government, it was argued, was more concerned to appease public opinion with its tough policy on immigration control than to curb discrimination.
It was Enoch Powell's 1968 'Rivers of Blood' speech which brought the issue to a head which resulted in hundreds of London dock workers to down tools demanding an end to mass immigration. Although Conservative Party leader Ted Heath sacked Powell from the Shadow Cabinet, Labour felt obliged to bring in the 1968 Immigration Act aimed at further restrictions of overseas migration.
By 1971 with the return of a Conservative Government another Immigration Act was passed limiting black migration. But both major parties recognised the importance of established BME communities in terms of electoral support and adopted a dual strategy to win over black voters. In 1976 Labour passed a robust Race Relations Act to stamp out direct and indirect discrimination. In the same year The Commission for Racial Equality was established with wide ranging powers. Throughout major cities and urban towns Race Equality Councils were set up with an educational remit.
Despite these developments the mid-seventies saw the rise of the extreme right National Front which achieved modest success in council elections. It wasn't until the 1979 general election that Mrs Thatcher won a sizeable majority with a populist mandate to curb migration.
Although the issue ceased to be significant throughout the 1980s and noughties, it resurfaced in 2001 where ethnic tensions emerged between the white and Asian community in former mill towns in the North West., exploited by the racist BNP. The far-right BNP gained growing electoral support in the first decade of the 21st century winning seats in the European Parliament in 2004 and 2007. This saw the election of Andrew Broms, a former leader of the quasi-fascist NF and Nick Griffin. In the 2014 Euro-elections the BNP lost out to the radical right-wing UKIP under Nigel Farage who topped the poll in terms of the popular vote. In Hartlepool, a traditional coastal urban constituency held by Labour, over 50% of electorate backed UKIP.
The EU referendum, Brexit and the durability of UKIP has forced the issue of east European migration on both major parties. Survey evidence tells us that's it become the number one policy issue, especially amongst the white working-class – Labour's core vote. Even established minority ethnic communities are concerned about it. Labour is divided on the issue. While Labour's leadership are relaxed about unlimited migration, other urban MPs are not.
For Stephen Kinnock, Jon Cruddas and Andy Burnham 'freedom of movement of labour' is no longer an option. Labour MPs in seats where people voted Leave in big numbers like Blyth and Redcar believe that selective immigration control is the right policy to facilitate better community cohesion and to address the concerns of Labour's core working-class vote. A two-tier approach to the issue has been put forward by Labour's realists. One, an acceptance of EU skilled migration where there's proven need of employment in the UK. Two, a willing acceptance of EU students and three a clampdown on unskilled immigration from former Warsaw Pact countries which is seen as undermining wages and placing undue pressure on public services and housing.
According to a March 2017 YouGov Poll only 11% of voters believe that Labour has the best policy on migration. Amongst Labour's voters a staggering 71% share this view. With ratings like this on such a key issue the Party must get this right if it's to avoid a sharp demise in its electoral fortunes in both marginal Midlands and North West parliamentary constituency – seats that Labour must retain and win if it's to form a government in 2020.
A robust stance on migration coupled with strong policies to stamp out intolerance and discrimination is the way forward for Labour. The sustainability of cohesive urban communities with good race relations is dependent on such an approach.


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|Reviews for My Home is Where you Are
| Guest chapter 2 . 8/5
ohmygod please please continue this
| Charmedchic72 chapter 2 . 6/28/2014
I enjoyed this chapter. And like I said in my last review, wish you would continue.
| Charmedchic72 chapter 1 . 6/28/2014
I started reading this knowing you hadn't finished. And since it's been 4 years since you've updated this story, I figure there's a pretty low chance you'll ever finish. But I'm hooked. And in going to read chapter two and keep hoping you'll eventually update.
| IHeartBonesBooth chapter 2 . 6/21/2014
I liked it but I am confused? Is this now it ends or as I assume you just never finished this story? Maybe one day you will :)
| alexindigo chapter 2 . 4/13/2012
Do you think you'll ever continue this story? It's so intriguing and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who'd love to see B&B together in Haiti. Thx for sharing! )
| maligal17 chapter 2 . 3/24/2011
Please continue! I would like to know what happens between these two chapters!
| Maligal17 chapter 2 . 10/25/2010
You should really continue this! I can not wait to see where you will take this!
| BoothyBones - Lisa chapter 2 . 9/27/2010
I'm very intrigued by this storyline...do you plan to keep it going?
| MorWeb chapter 2 . 7/27/2010
Shall I sharpen your pencils (if you long-hand your stories first)...clean your mouse/your keyboard...tape record your dictation then type up the rest of the chapters myself? Like Booth for Brennan I am at your service if it means you'll move forward with this story!~MorWeb
| saganist chapter 1 . 7/17/2010
This is an interesting way to begin a story, and I can't deny I'm already hooked.
Thanks for another beautiful fic!
| Luxuride chapter 2 . 7/7/2010
Lovely writing and a promising plotline - what better way to help me get through this God-awful hiatus? I know I'm late finding this fic, but I hope you update sometime in the near future.
| Choebs chapter 2 . 6/17/2010
Ok, good setup (yes, I am late in reviewing... I run a huge load of fanfics behind, so, Im catching up now).
Curious where you're going with this. Although chapter one was kinda sad and yet promising.
I hope you have your muse back soon. We need your fics to get us through the hiatus. Still 3 months to go. Oy.
| stooger chapter 2 . 5/7/2010
Very nice start. Very curious to see where this is headed and hopin for some smut ;-)
I hope you update soon!
| A Writer Called Claire chapter 2 . 4/29/2010
good chapter. You're an amazing writer.
| cywen69 chapter 2 . 4/17/2010
THis sounds really interesting so far, I look forward to reading more in the future.


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Nicholas Stern: Climate change will create billions of refugees, extended world war
Simon Leufstedt posted a article in Green QuoteLord Nicholas Stern, British economist and academic who is most known for the Stern Review said, during an improvised speech at a Cape Town hotel in South Africa, that if we don't act quickly and determinedly to address climate change the world will face billions of climate refugees and extended world wars in a near future: "If the world's nations act responsibly, Stern said, they will achieve "zero-carbon" electricity production and zero-carbon road transport by 2050 _ by replacing coal power plants with wind, solar or other energy sources that emit no carbon dioxide, and fossil fuel-burning vehicles with cars running on electric or other "clean" energy. Then warming could be contained to a 2-degree-Celsius (3.4-degree-Fahrenheit) rise this century, he said. But if negotiators falter, if emissions reductions are not made soon and deep, the severe climate shifts and sea-level rises projected by scientists would be "disastrous." It would "transform where people can live," Stern said. "People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move if you talk about 4-, 5-, 6-degree increases" _ 7 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit. And that would mean extended global conflict, "because there's no way the world can handle that kind of population move in the time period in which it would take place.""
Geoengineering: Can we fix the climate without reducing emissions?
Tor Økland Barstad posted a article in Science & TechnologyCan we fix the climate without reducing emissions? Might there even be a way to fix the climate that is cheaper then reducing emissions and doesn't have side-effects? In this post I will look at some of the more creative proposals for fixing the climate, and see if they are any good. Many of the ideas I'll present here sound like crazy-talk at first, and I'm not saying that they necceceraly aren't, but I don't think they should be disregarded before we have considered them. I'll start with one of the most popular ideas: Pumping fine particles of sea-water into clouds to make them bigger and more reflective. This youtube-video explains it all: The good thing about cloud-seeding is that it can be very cheap. As mentioned in the clip only 500 litres of salt water a second, or something of that magnitude, needs to be sprayed up in order too control temperatures on earth. We would need roughly 1500 ships to counter-act a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere, costing 1,5 to 3,5 million dollars each. And to keep up with the current rate of increase in atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels we would need 50 new ships a year. Not that much for saving the climate. The Copenhagen Consensus Center, where top economists have tried to estimate the costs and benefits of different solutions to climate change, write this about the costs: Marine cloud whitening with a fleet of unmanned ships would be extremely cheap: for about $5.8 billion, all of the global warming for the century could be avoided. But is it possible that seeding the clouds might change the worlds weather patterns, and lead to droughts, etc? Yes. That's one of the reasons why we need to research this a lot more. But one of the great things about marine cloud whitening is that it's so flexible. If placing the boats one place leads to problems we might solve the problem by simply moving the boats. Maybe we even can make the worlds rain-patterns better (by prevent droughts, etc.) if we gain a good enough understanding of the climate system and how cloud seeding affects it? Since the boats can be controlled the amount of cooling can also be controlled, via satellite measurements and a computer model. And what do we do if marine cloud whitening doesn't work out? Then we stop doing it, and everything will return to normal within a few weeks. Which also means that it will be risk-free to do small-scale testing of the technology. But hey, you might think, won't the clouds become salty? Well, in a way they already are, as tiny salty water droplets from breaking waves already enter the atmosphere and help forming clouds. Marine cloud whitening only enhances a natural process. As far as I understand, the water always needs something to cling to (particles like dust, smoke, or salt) in order to form clouds, but when the clouds first have started forming they grow really big, and become mainly freshwater. So there is no danger of there raining salty water if we start with marine cloud whitening. Releasing sulfur in the stratosphere Picture of the volcano eruption at the Philippines in 1991, which reduced world temperatures by 0,6 degrees. In 1991 Mount Pinatubothere, a volcano in the Philippines, had a huge eruption. 10 million tonnes of sulfur was ejected into the stratosphere - the part of the atmosphere which is placed at about 10-50 km (6 - 31 miles) above Earth's surface. The sulfur was moved in different directions by the air motions, and after about a year it was evenly spread around the world. For two years after Pinatubo erupted, the average temperature on Earth decreased by about 0.6 °C (0.9 °F). The idea is to send up rockets (or baloons, or some other mechanism) to simulate a volcano eruption. At first normal fuel is used to lift up the rockets, but in the stratosphere hydrogen sulfide is burnt, leaving sulfate (which consists of sulfur and oxygen) in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight, and thus cool the planet. Of course this wouldn't be free, but a lot cheaper than cutting emissions. Paul Crutzen, one of the top experts on this subject, has estimated that it would cost between 25 and 50 billion dollars a year (in comparison we spend over a thousand billion dollars a year on the worlds military and well over 250 billion dollars a year on subsidizing farmers in developed countries). And we have all the necessary technology to implement this measure at once, if we want to. But unfortunately this is not a problem-free solution. We don't yet know if it would disturb rain-patterns. And emitting sulfur is considered as polution, because it leads to health problems and because it leads to acid rain. That's why the release of it has been reduced through environmental regulation. It is naturally emitted by volcanoes and by the sea, but we shouldn't get to much of it. However, it should be noted that this sulfur would be released far up in the stratosphere. And further: Since it will have a greater cooling effect when released in the stratosphere it is predicted that we will need too release less then 10 percent of what is already being emitted by humans. A side-effect that there is a bigger reason to be afraid of is that releasing sulfur in the stratosphere might slow down, or even reverse, the healing of the ozone layer. The volcano eruption in 1991 led to a global column ozone loss of about 2.5 percent. However, we won't need to use as much sulfur as was emitted in the colcano eruption in order too compensate for a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere through geoengineering. The ozone layer is healing. It's better than it was a few decades ago, and it will continue to get better. So if we start reducing temperatures some decades from now the ozone layer won't necessarily get worse than it is now, only worse than it otherwise would have been then. Ironically one the people who has done the most research on releasing sulfur in the atmosphere is Paul Jozef Crutzen, who won a nobel prize in 1995 for his work on the hole in the ozone layer. He thinks that we at least should test his plan, so we know now what the risks might be if we face a catastrophic situation in the future. He says: Since the sulfur only stays in the stratoshpere for two years or so, he also makes clear: It is being discussed if we could use other cooling particles than sulfate. If you are interested you can see a short presentation that mentions this here. Launching glass discs into space This is what the glass discs might look like. They won't reflect the light, but divert it from hitting earth. Another idea is to launch glass discs into space so that roughly two percent less sunlight reaches earth. The reduction in incoming sunlight would cancel out the increase in climate gases. The plan isn't as crazy as it sounds. Even without using nanotechnology (which is emerging) we can get these glass discs pretty thin, and there are realistic ideas for how we can launch these glass discs into space by using electromagnetic power (much more effective for sending large quanteties out in space than using space ships). By placing these glass discs at the point in space where the gravitational force of Earth and the Sun cancel each other out (which is pretty close to earth) we won't need much energy to keep them in place. But even though the idea is feasible and has small side-effects it will be very expensive (although probably not as expensive as drastic cuts in emissions) and will take 30 years or so to implement. Therefore I won't use more space on it here, but if you are interested in learning more about it you can see this youtube-clip, and continue on to see this. And if you are especially interested you can read more about the arguments for and against here. Getting the sea to take up more CO2 The phytoplankton turns sunlight into energy, and thus provides food for the rest of the food chain as well, just like plants on land do. Had it not been for phytoplankton the sea would have been a lot less lively than it is today. Three fourths of the world is covered by the ocean, which naturally absorbs about one third of our CO2-emissions. In the sea it's not just "normal" plants that get their energy from the sun, but also phytoplankton. Phytoplankton account for around half of all photosynthetic activity on Earth. The phytoplankton absorbs CO2, and releases oxygen. It doesn't release the carbon when it dies. Much of the plankton is eaten by other sea-creatures, but much of it also sinks further down in the ocean and stays there for a long time. Planktos-science.com tells us: Phytoplankton rely on minerals. In parts of the ocean the growth of phytoplankton is limited by lack of iron, and across most of the sea we can boost the phytoplankton-growth by adding nitrogen. The idea is to add nutrients to the ocean, and thus boost the growth of phytoplankton, so that they turn more CO2 into oxygen and make sure that more carbon is stored in the ocean. This youtube-video explains the idea in greater detail: Phytoplankton takes energy directly from the sun. And just like all animals on land are dependent on plants to provide energy, phytoplankton (and other sea-plants) are the foundation for life under the sea. As seen in the clip there is such a thing as too much phytoplanton, but it's important that we seperate between the deep sea and the parts of the ocean that's close to the shore, and between iron- and nitrogen fertilization. Acording to planktos-science.com phytoplankton blooms on the high seas where iron is limited have never been reported to produce negative environmental effects. And as explained in the clip, it's like irrigating the dessert. If it doesn't work out, we can stop doing what we are doing, and things will return to normal. The picture shows a phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Norway in 2000. Image provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE. Plankton-blooms occur naturally all the time. And the ocean is supposed to be "fertilized" with minerals. This happens naturally when dust is carried by the wind and lands in the ocean. Much of the life in the ocean is totally dependent on this. But the natural flow of dust containing minerals vital for phytoplanton has been reduced significantly over the last decades. According to NASA, the amount of iron deposited from desert dust clouds into the ocean has decreased by 25 percent since the early 80's. In addition to this the growth of phytoplankton is reduced when sea temperatures rise. An article from NASA 2003 tells us that there has been a 6 percent reduction of phytoplankton growth in the ocean as a whole over the last two decades. Newer studies confirm this picture of phytoplankton growth decreasing. Near the shore phytoplankton growth seems to be increasing, but this is not relevant to the queston of iron-fertilization, which will take place in the deep ocean where the growth of phytoplankton is limited by the lack of iron. The fact that the growth of phytoplankton, and even the natural supply of iron, has been reduced significantly because of human activity, means that we don't have to look at iron fertilization as fiddling with nature, but rather as making it more simular to what it would have been if we hadn't interfered at all. In an interview with treehugger.com, which I recommend reading in its entirety, David Kubiak from Planktos, Inc. claims: Returning plankton populations to 1980 levels would neutralize about 50% of industrial society's greenhouse gas emissions. But there is debate about how effective iron fertilization will be. One of the things we don't know for certain is how much of the phytoplankton that will sink to the bottom of the sea or stay in underwater currents for a long time, and how much of it that will be released to the athmosphere more quickly. To read more about the arguments for and against iron fertilization you can click here or here. And to hear the pro-side you can see this presentation by Russ George, or read more on planktos-science.com. Making artificial "trees" The idea is to make machines that can absorb CO2 from the air. It can obviously be done. Plants do it all the time. But do we have the technology already? Will it be cost-effective? And will it take a lot of energy? A twelve minutes long video about artificial trees can be seen here for those of you who are interested, but here is a shorter one: The good thing about this solution is that it doesn't have any side-effects. Let me repeat that. It doesn't have any side-effects. All it does is to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Just as we increase the CO2-levels across the whole world when we emit a lot from one place (a coal power plant heats up the whole world, not just the city it's placed in) we don't have to think about where we place these "trees". The most practical will probably be to place them above the storing-sites for the CO2. 60 million trees, which is roughly the amount needed to absorb all the CO2 we currently emit, will not take up that much space. Klaus Lackner, the person who is leading the development of these trees, says in an interview with the The Green Inc. blog: We have reached a point where we can collect CO2 from the air and recover it - at a low cost. Now it's a production issue, rather than an 'inventing new things' kind of issue. But where do we put all the CO2 when it's collected? One solution is geological storage: Pumping CO2 into rock formations on the bottom of the sea, or deep underground elsewhere, into rock-formations. This is more feasible then it sounds, and has already been done successfully in Norway and Canada. If you are interested in reading more about how and why this works, and about the details, you can read here. The conclusion is that it can be done, and that it can be done safely. Under the high pressure CO2 takes up a lot less space, so we can store quite a lot of it this way, but as far as I know there is still doubt about whether or not we will be able to store all of the CO2 we will emitt in the long run using this method. But already new, promising ideas for how we can store more CO2 are emerging, like binding it to mineral substances. Great! So there we have our perfect solution to climate change. ...Or do we? Klaus Lackner thinks that the price of using these artificial trees to fight global warming can reduced to roughly $30 per ton of CO2 collected (which corresponds to about 25 cents a gallon or 7 cents per litre of gasoline), in current prizes. In 2006 we emitted 28 billion tons of CO2. Paying for that would cost 850 billion dollars. Of course the calculation would be more complicated than this in reality, partly because it will be cheaper to capture CO2 from point sources where concentrations are higher (such as a coal power plant), but it still won't be cheap. If we only could fight climate change by reducing emissions we would be in real hurry. And we kind of are also when we take geoengineering into account, since the negative consequences of global warming have started to occur already. But if it mainly is the consequences that will occur in some decades we are worried about (2035? 2050?) being able to take CO2 out of the atmosphere gives us the benefit of being able to wait a bit. This is good for two reasons: First of all, as we all know, technology is getting better and better. And there is no reason to think that science will stop advancing soon. Rather to the contrary all the information available to us makes it reasonable to expect that the advancing of technology will keep growing exponentially. I will write more about why I think there is reason to be very optimistic about how much better technology will get in the following decades in later blog posts. In the meanwhile it should be noted that one of the things that will revolutionize our ability to absorb CO2 (in addition to revolutionizing everything else) is the emergence of nanotechnology, which will enable us to design things on an atomic and molecular scale. When we can design things on such a small scale we will not only be able to make very small and very complicated machines, and do much of what we do today much more effectively, but we can also make new materials different from those we have today. The advancement of technology increases our productivity, and thus makes us richer. So even if the technology doesn't changes drastically, it will still be easier for us to afford. Obviously there are limits to how long we can wait, but I still think this was worth mentioning. These arguments aren't just relevant for artificial trees, but for all geoengineering. Many solutions Here I have looked at some of the solutions. But there are many other ideas out there. Like creating white, floating islands in places of the sea that we don't use much (of cheap materials, obviously) so that more sunlight is reflected. Or turning the Sahara and the dry parts of Australia into forests. Another idea is genetically engineering crops to be more reflective or shifting to more reflective crops. And although painting our roofs white probably wont solve the problem by itself, it is proposed as a cheap way to make earth colder. There are also ideas for how we can solve specific problems related to global warming, like stopping the melting of Greenland by wrapping the edges with reflective materials - a method that also can be used on glaciers. I agree that many of these ideas sound bad, and some of them probably are, but we should give them a serious look . Is it crazy to look for a technical solution for global warming? Some people dismiss geoengineering without even having looked at the different proposals. They'll say things like "you can't fix the climate by fiddling even more with it" or "we can't possibly know the outcomes of geoengineering". Although I think that many geoengineering-ideas aren't advisable, I don't think it's reasonable to conclude that geoengineering in general is doomed to not work or be risky. It might very well be that we soon find a solution that is without risk, without side-effects and cheap. If we don't, I still think geoengineering might be the answer, as long as we find a safe alternative with modest side-effects. What would happen if we stopped emitting tommorow? If history is a guide there is little reason to be optimistic about humanity cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. We have broken all climate-treaties so far, and global emission-levels are even higher than the highest scenario produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001. Even stopping the emissions from increasing further would require quite a lot of action, if we are to do it right now. And even if we do manage to take action to reduce emissions it will take time before they are reduced enough to stop the accumulation of climate gasses in the athmosphere. But let's say that we did take drastic action. Tomorrow all people on earth would stop driving cars, we would stop flying, all energy production involving fossil fuels would be stopped, we would stop all agriculture that emits methane, all industry that isn't environmentally friendly would be stopped, we would end deforestation once and for all, etc. Let's say that we went way further than even the most extreme environmentalists would want us to, and stopped all human emissions of climate gases in just one day. What would happen? What would happen is that the temperatures would keep increasing. Shortly explained this is because it takes time for the climate system to fully respond to increased emissions. NASA explain on their webpages: Even if all emissions were to stop today, the Earth's average surface temperature would climb another 0.6 degrees [Celsius] or so over the next several decades before temperatures stopped rising. Therefore geoengineering-plans might be a more environmentally friendly alternative than just drastic cuts in emissions, even if they have environmental side effects! Don't get me wrong: This doesn't mean that there aren't limits to how much environmental side-effects we should allow, or that a geoengineering-plan that doesn't have environmental side effects at all isn't preferable. And of course I am aware that it's possible to combine geoengineering and big, immediate cuts in emissions, if we think that's smart. Some geoengineering-solutions, like the ones that rely on decreasing the amount of solar radiation that is absorbed by Earth (glass discs in space, sulfur in the atmosphere, marine cloud whitening, etc.), aren't permanent solutions. We can't keep on emitting CO2 forever. But seriously, who thinks that steering the amount of climate gases in the atmosphere will be a challenge in 2100? We need a solution that solves the problem for long enough, but it doesn't need to solve the problem for ever. It should be taken into account that a solutions that relies only on controlling solar radiation don't solve other problems connected to CO2-emissions, such as acidification of the ocean. Price matters Let's us say (just for the sake of the argument) that the alternatives are reducing emissions and releasing sulfur in the stratosphere, and (also just for the sake of the argument) that we can stop global warming completely by reducing emissions if we reduce them fast enough. Let's also say (still for the sake of the argument) that we find out that releasing sulfur in the stratosphere will lead to some harm to the ozone, which again will lead to more cases of cancer. Then we should reduce emissions, shouldn't we? What kind of people would we be if we think it's ok that more people die of cancer? Well, since releasing sulfur in the stratosphere is a lot cheaper than drastically reducing emissions, we could save a lot of money on choosing this alternative. And if we spent a fraction of the money saved on cancer research we could double the research on cancer many times over, and thus reduce the cancer-burden significantly. Price matters. We only have a limited amount of resources, so we have to make sure that we achieve the greatest amount of good per dollar. So how can we most effectively address climate change? Exactly this question The Copenhagen Consensus Center on Climate tried to give an answer to in 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kIUZU5xQz0&hl=en_US&fs=1 Here is the prioritized list that the top economists (including three Nobel-prize winners) came up with: As you can see, the highest ranked solutions are research on geoengineering and low-carbon technologies. You can read more about the different solutions on the list, and the reasoning behind how they prioritize, here. I don't know if The Copenhagen Consensus Center on Climate have gotten their cost-benefit analysis exactly right. An article on Realclimate.org critizises their report on geoengineering. Some of the critisism I think is illegitimate, other parts I think is fair, but I don't think there is any reason to doubt their main conclusions. Regardeless I think their way of thinking is exactly right: How can most effectively fight global warming? If we ranked the solutions after how much benefit (how much they reduce global warming + positive side-effects) we get per cost (what they costs to implement + side-effects), which solutions would make the top? I think this way of thinking to a large degree is missing in the climate-debate. At least it is in my homecountry, Norway. We should have a plan B! No matter if you think we should try to solve the climate problem with only carbon cuts or not, you have to agree that we should have a plan B. If it turns out that the world doesn't manage to cooperate on cutting emissions sufficiently even though we should, or if consequences of warming (like methane being released from melted permafrost, or ice melting making Earth absorb more sunlight) leads to even further warming, we should have have developed a plan B to stabilize the climate. How I think we should solve the problem I used to be an environmentalist. Of course I wanted us to research a lot on renewable energy and low-carbon technologies, but I didn't think that doing this would be enough by itself. I thought we should drive our cars less, fly less, try to not consume to much of the type of goods that emit the most, choose environmentally friendly energy over fossil energy even when it's considerably more expensive, eat less meat, etc. Not because I wanted it, but because I thought the negative consequences of doing so would be smaller than the negative consequences of not doing it. I'm still an environmentalist (as mentioned before geoengineering might very well be more environmentally friendly than just drastic cuts in emissions) but I now propose a different way of handling the problem: Funding research on renewable energy is one of the most efficient ways to combat global warming, and will also benefit society in other ways. Research a lot on geoengineering and carbon capture. Research a lot on renewable energy and other technologies that are important for reducing emisions (environmentally friendly cars, energy storage, etc.). Researching safe nuclear power is money well spent to, but I don't think it's necessary to cover our energy-needs. Funding the development of renewable energy would be a smart thing to do even if it didn't affect the climate. When solar power becomes efficient it will lead to very, very cheap and convenient energy. I think we have good reasons to be very optimistic about renewable energy, and recently wrote a post that you can read here (it's a lot shorther than this one, I promise!) about solar energy, where I argue that solar power soon will be cheaper than conventional energy. Research a lot on computers, re-engineering of the brain, nanotechnology and other technologies that is needed to boost our general technological growth. Researching nanotechnology for example, might not be looked at as a way to combat climate change, but might be a very effective way of doing just that because it will enable new technologies that can solve the climate-problem. And that it also gives other enormous payoffs shouldn't be a problem. Do emission-cuts, but only the ones that are very cost-effective. A perfect way of dealing with climate change does not exist, but this is the closest I can think of. Some of the reasoning behind my proposal for dealing with climate change is in this post. The rest, especially number 3, will be made clearer in later updates. We should at least take a look at it Even if you don't agree with my conclusions, you should agree that we should give research on geoengineering more funding. From a global perspective it would cost almost nothing to give geoengineering a closer look, and boost the research on some of the more promising geoengineering-ideas. So even if you're a sceptic and think it's unlikely that geoegineering will be a good idea, you should agree that we should fund more research on it. The UK Royal Society published a comprehensive and unbiased report on geoengineering. One of their main recomendations was exactly that: We should fund more research on geoengineering. The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology wrote in March 2009: There is currently very little public funding specifically earmarked for geo-engineering. Despite a US Department of Energy White Paper (Unpublished) that in 2001 recommended a $64 million, five year programme, less than $1 million of public money is currently directly funding geoengineeringresearch in the USA. In the UK, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has proposed a £3 million 'Ideas Factory' commencing in 2010. To date, therefore, most researchhas been either funded using existing climate science grants or has been unfunded, performed in researchers' spare time. Researchers in the field believe that an international research programme of around $100 million could advance the scientific and engineering knowledge significantly. I think it's a nobrainer. We should fund research on geoengineering by at least $100 million dollars - preferably much more. I also think it's important that people learn more about these proposals for dealing with climate change. Geoengineering should be a part of the public debate in the same way as emission-cuts are. I think it's wierd that geoengineering haven't recieved more attention in the media, and it's sad that politicians and enviormentalists know so little about it. If you didn't like this post, feel free to post a comment telling me why you think geoengineering is a bad idea, or simply how much I suck. If you however did like this post, and like me think it's a tragedy that geoengineering has recieved so little attention: Why not recomend this post to your friends, or help spreading it in some other way?
Nuclear Energy is Expensive, Dangerous, Not Cost-Effective and Will Worsen Climate Change
Simon Leufstedt posted a article in EnergyAccording to a new report released by Amory Lovins and Imran Sheikh nuclear energy is still dangerous, not cost-effective, and too expensive and will even worsen climate change. "A widely heralded view holds that nuclear power is experiencing a dramatic worldwide revival and vibrant growth, because it's competitive, necessary, reliable, secure, and vital for fuel security and climate protection. That's all false. In fact, nuclear power is continuing its decades-long collapse in the global marketplace because it's grossly uncompetitive, unneeded, and obsolete—so hopelessly uneconomic that one needn't debate whether it's clean and safe; it weakens electric reliability and national security; and it worsens climate change compared with devoting the same money and time to more effective options." Nuclear energy is a waste of money because it creates a pollution problem that lasts for thousands of years, money that would be better and more productively spent on renewable energy, the report says. The report will also depress the free market supporters as it says that "nuclear power plants are unfinanceable in the private capital market because of their excessive costs and financial risks and the high uncertainty of both." "During the nuclear revival now allegedly underway, no new nuclear project on earth has been financed by private risk capital, chosen by an open decision process, nor bid into the world's innumerable power markets and auctions. No old nuclear plant has been resold at a value consistent with a market case for building a new one." Via DeSmogBlog.
New report: Nuclear power will not solve climate change
Simon Leufstedt posted a article in EnergyA recently published report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace shows that nuclear power cannot solve climate change due to time and safety limits. "After several decades of disappointing growth, nuclear energy seems poised for a comeback. Talk of a "nuclear renaissance" includes perhaps a doubling or tripling of nuclear capacity by 2050, spreading nuclear power to new markets in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and developing new kinds of reactors and fuel-reprocessing techniques. But the reality of nuclear energy's future is more complicated. Without major changes in government policies and aggressive financial support, nuclear power is actually likely to account for a declining percentage of global electricity generation." According to the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook 2008 nuclear power's share of worldwide electricity generation is expected to drop from 15% in 2006 to 10% in 2030. The report, titled "Nuclear Energy: Rebirth or Resuscitation?", comes to the conclusion that states interested in nuclear energy should be aware of the costs and risks involved in nuclear energy, as well as the time it takes to construct a nuclear plant. "The earliest the first new U.S. reactor could be finished is 2015, but the report notes that it takes about 10 years to put a new plant in service, from licensing to connection to the grid. In two dozen countries that are interested in obtaining civil nuclear energy but have not previously built a reactor, it will take even longer, the report says." The report also comes to the conclusion that nuclear energy will not help countries to reach energy security or independence and that it could risk world security. "In addition, uranium and nuclear fuel come from only a few countries – Canada, Australia, Russia, the United States and France – making nations without resources or technologies as dependent on foreign sources of energy as before, the report notes. Worse still, it says, the need for fuel may drive more nations to develop their own uranium enrichment facilities, raising the risk of the proliferation of nuclear weapons."
Greenhouse gas emissions hit danger mark
Simon Leufstedt posted a article in Global WarmingTim Flannery, a well known and respected climate change scientist, has released information about the coming IPCC-report. According to Tim Flannery, this is important so read carefully, the amount of greenhouse gas emissions in our atmosphere already now is up in 455 ppm (parts per million). This is a number that the scientist thought we wouldn't reach until year 2017. "We thought we'd be at that threshold within about a decade," Flannery told Australian television late on Monday. "We thought we had that much time. But the new data indicates that in about mid-2005 we crossed that threshold," he said. "What the report establishes is that the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is already above the threshold that could potentially cause dangerous climate change." You might wonder why there is so much fuss about 455 ppm? If you haven't yet figured it out let me try to explain it with one word: pain. And lot's of it. And it's a pain we in the western world have created. "That 200 gigatonnes of carbon pollutant, the standing stock that's in the atmosphere, is there courtesy of the industrial revolution, and we're the beneficiaries of that and most of the world missed out," he said. "So I see that as a historic debt that we owe the world. And I can't imagine a better way of paying it back than trying to help the poorest people on the planet." It doesn't help to change your light bulbs to CFLs or recycle your newspaper. The only solution and the only thing we MUST do is to decrease our CO2 emissions with over 90%, NOW. We can't afford to wait any longer. I'll finish this post with a link to the article in Washington Post and a quote from Al Gore: "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power stations." Image credit: JohnLeGear. Image licensed under a Creative-Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.


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Terrified passengers screamed and chanted prayers as smoke poured into a plane's cabin after one of its engines allegedly caught fire mid-flight.
Footage captured by a traveller on board the stricken aircraft reveals a dramatic scene as passengers feared they would die when smoke filled the cabin and the plane began to move "up and down".
Panicked travellers could smell something burning about 20 minutes after take-off and their fears worsened as the smoke "got thicker" and alarms went off.
In the video people can be heard praying loudly, screaming or even weeping as the flight crew prepared to make an emergency landing without oxygen masks for the passengers.
Passenger Oriakwu Okwesilieze wrote on Twitter that the Aero Contractors plane "started smoking" about 20 minutes into a domestic flight from Port Harcourt to Lagos in Nigeria on Wednesday.
The plane was carrying 53 passengers, including a seven-month-old baby, Sahara Reporters reported.
As smoke filled the cabin oxygen masks failed deploy from the ceiling and passengers were told to cover their mouths and noses with wet towels handed out by the crew, a report claimed.
Ms Okwesilieze said passengers were chanting prayers, screaming and panicking for 35 minutes as smoke continued to fill the cabin before the plane landed safely in Lagos.
She wrote: "Like we just took off and I'm about to die? Nah! God can't let this happen. The smoke was so thick we couldn't see, the blades were sparking.
"Pilot said we should calm down but something was burning, smelling and the smoke got thicker, the alarms went off but he said to calm down?
"I prayed and quoted all the bible verses I could think of. I was shaking, the plane was moving up and down, women were screaming at the back."
Ms Okwesilieze said the plane was met by firefighters as it landed.
She wrote: "Everyone is shouting sue sue but I'm just grateful to be alive and on ground. Funny thing is no apology or explanation was given to anyone.
"Every One on this aero contractor flight could have died today but for God."
Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority and the airline are investigating the incident.
A spokesman for the airline told Sahara Reporters that everything appeared to be normal during a routine pre-flight check of the plane.
He said an alarm sounded and smoke filled the cabin after a passenger went into a lavatory.
But passengers and Nigerian media described the incident as an engine fire.
The spokesman commended the pilot and crew for their "professionalism" during the emergency.


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klk wrote:In yesterday by phone! Very excited (highest acceptance so far...)! 169/3.67, hoping for some $, but looking at a few other 169s without, not getting my hopes up. Good luck to everyone else still waiting!
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Discussion in 'Introduce Yourself Here' started by Mygfforbbc, Sep 15, 2015.
new to this forum if anybody could help would be great thanks everyone
Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy your stay. UK bull here feel free to ask me any questions. Also your gf looks fantastisc, such a nice round perk ass she has.
hello thanks im lost here how can i post pics? i need to verefy my email? how can i do it= sorry thanks
Welcome. Damn shame I'm not in the U.K.
thanks oh were you live?
The U.S. Virginia to be exact
You can post pics through the media section at the top, or directly in posts through the import button.
Well should you come to Virginia, I can promise that she'll return to the U. K. walking differently than when she left!
What part of the UK, are you guys from
ohh i saw iy yhanks a lot
she never been with a black man were are new to this lol
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Nice she's got a lot to look forward to, I'd be happy to break her in and show what she's been missing.
she wants too lol
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What would be your ideal market in Kidderminster? Do specialist foods whet your appetite or maybe a vintage clothes stall would put a spring in your step?
These are the sort of questions the council is asking you to consider in its consultation on the future provision for Kidderminster market.
As part of the regeneration of Kidderminster Town Centre, as well as the £2m investment in the new public realm, the Council is looking at ways to improve the outdoor market that is run on Thursdays and Saturdays. The Council's Overview and Scrutiny Committee and Panel is involved with this review and is focusing on how the market fits into the regeneration programme for the town. Your views are sought to contribute to this review.
Cllr Helen Dyke, Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel said,
"The current market has been operating since 2006 and we know it is valued by residents, visitors and of course the traders themselves. We are now looking to the future and want to ensure that we are creating a market that people want to visit and that takes into account the changing look and feel of Kidderminster as a place. We urge everyone to get involved with this consultation and let us know what you think as well as contributing ideas that you may have picked up when visiting other towns."
The Kidderminster Market consultation asks about the ideal location, frequency, timings, and the type of stalls that should be included in the future market. Please take a few moments to complete this survey online as the feedback will inform recommendations to Council. You can also pick up a paper copy of the survey at the Kidderminster Hub in the Town Hall, Swan Centre and Wyre Forest House at Finepoint. The closing date for this survey is Friday 4 September at 5pm.


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'Lost City Of Z' Trailer: Robert Pattinson And Charlie Hunnam Amazon Adventure Movie – WATCH
The first trailer for The Lost City Of Z, starring Robert Pattinson, Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, and Tom Holland, has been released, and it's packed with action, adventure, and intrigue. Watch the movie's first trailer below.
The movie, based on the book of the same name, tells the real-life story of Lt. Colonel Percy Fawcett, who set off in 1925 on an adventure in the jungles of Brazil hoping to find the mythical, golden kingdom of El Dorado. Among those also embarking on the journey with Fawcett were his eldest son Jack, explorer Henry Costin, and many others. While it had previously been believed that the Amazon was uninhabitable, the Fawcetts, Costin and others discovered indigenous tribes.
But their exploration was a difficult one, fraught with danger, disease, and death from a variety of causes. In the trailer, we see that the Fawcetts, Costin, and their team of other bold explorers encountering hostility from the tribal natives in the Amazon. In one shot, it becomes clear that inhabitants were also cannibals. Fawcett's team disappeared in the Amazon's jungle, with no explanation as to why they vanished.
In the The Lost City Of Z, Hunnam plays Fawcett, Miller is his wife left behind, Holland portrays his son Jack, and Pattinson is the explorer Henry Costin. The lush and exciting looking film was directed by James Gray and produced by Brad Pitt and his production company Plan B. Check out the first trailer for The Lost City Of Z below. NOTE: The video is no longer available.


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Garret Kane is an assemblage sculptor based in Brooklyn, New York. By incorporating a broad range of techniques and materials in his work, he creates remarkable art pieces that embody "the idea that human beings were made by nature and through technology we attempt to recreate nature in our own image."
In this series, appropriately titled Seasons, Kane combined elements of nature with digital technology in order to create sculptures that represent the Earth's yearly seasonal cycle and the fundamental, not to mention grossly-overlooked, role that it plays in our delicate state of existence. It is an artistic reminder that we must care for the Earth should we expect it to continue caring for us. (h/t: colossal)
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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by ray1510, Sep 14, 2010.
Is everyone else who's with Vodafone still on 026? Or is it just me
Well i guess so since its the newest version? Or have i missed something....
Also beware of being offered an update if you are on 026 cos there has been one going round that sounds like its caused more problems than it solves. Wait for the next biggy to roll out. 026 is about as good as it gets at the moment... unless anyone can tell me how to roll back to 023!?
Sorry messed up I meant 024
Stay with 024. Does your wifi work all the time or drop out if your signal bars drop low? If its working then don't update cos 026 has caused this prob.
I was on 026 until this evening when I saw the nice shiny update icon and tried out SEUS for the first time. I have now gone back to 024 after getting 026 OTA from Vodafone.
Anyone any idea why SEUS has decided to basically roll back my phone?
Mine disconnects all the time on 024 and it always has done
Lets hope that within weeks we will all be running smoothly with constant wifi connection whatever the signal bars say cos 2.1 will solve all our problems...... won't it?!
vodafone suck so much lol...
caz are you sure you had 026?? i check quite regularly for updates and never been given anything higher than 024?
its all down to vodas stupid branding and 360 junk that makes us wait for updates, i hope 2.1 doesn't get delayed for us because of their stupid bloatware junk that doesn't even work properly...
I'm 99% sure I had 026 as I remember looking at debranding and thinking every version of firmware I saw was older than what I had.
The VF 360 stuff is a nightmare. When I originally got the phone I was told "use 360 to sync your contacts" only to find out it wasn't compatible. Then tried SE Sync only to find VF had removed it.
I'm at the end of my tether and have considered paying up the contract and switching to an iPhone on O2 but I don't want to be a sheep and I love the Android OS but this phone is a nightmare. One thing I will say is that the phone was lasting me over 2 days on holiday. Amazing what happens when data roaming is turned off and nothing is draining the battery.
i'm still on 020 (rogers)


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All .NET assemblies contain vivid type information which describes the structure of every internal and external type (this can be verified by loading an assembly into ildasm.exe and clicking the ctrl-m keystroke). On a related note, many methods in the .NET base class libraries require you to pass in type information for a given item. When you need to obtain type information for a given method invocation, you have numerous approaches. First, all types inherit the public System.Object.GetType() method:
// Obtain type information from a variable. SomeType c = new SomeType(); Type t = c.GetType(); INeedYourTypeInfo(t);
While this works, it is overkill to create a type simply to call the inherited GetType() method. To streamline the process, the C# language offers the typeof operator. The benefit is you are not required to create the item in question, rather simply specify the name of the type as an argument:
// Obtain type information via typeof. INeedYourTypeInfo(typeof(SomeType));
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