Okay go back to sails and oars.......................
Posted on 05/23/2018 11:45:07 AM PDT by rey
Last week it was revealed that 54 oil tankers are anchored off the coast of Britain, refusing to unload their fuel until prices have risen. But that is not the only scandal in the shipping world. Today award-winning science writer Fred Pearce – environmental consultant to New Scientist and author of Confessions Of An Eco Sinner – reveals that the super-ships that keep the West in everything from Christmas gifts to computers pump out killer chemicals linked to thousands of deaths because of the filthy fuel they use. We've all noticed it. The filthy black smoke kicked out by funnels on cross-Channel ferries, cruise liners, container ships, oil tankers and even tugboats. It looks foul, and leaves a brown haze across ports and shipping lanes. But what hasn’t been clear until now is that it is also a major killer, probably causing thousands of deaths in Britain alone. As ships get bigger, the pollution is getting worse. The most staggering statistic of all is that just 16 of the world’s largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world’s cars. Because of their colossal engines, each as heavy as a small ship, these super-vessels use as much fuel as small power stations. But, unlike power stations or cars, they can burn the cheapest, filthiest, high-sulphur fuel: the thick residues left behind in refineries after the lighter liquids have been taken. The stuff nobody on land is allowed to use. Thanks to decisions taken in London by the body that polices world shipping, this pollution could kill as many as a million more people in the coming decade – even though a simple change in the rules could stop it.
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Okay go back to sails and oars.......................
Article from 2009. It is true, large ships burn fuel oil which can be pretty cruddy.
Where is the verifiable and scientifically accepted data that says these ships cause "thousands of deaths because of the filthy fuel they use"?
This looks like another Leftist scam job.
I have a better idea. Stop governments from paying for any research that shows man made global warming exist.
Pay only for research that proves the opposite.
Watch how quickly the numbers all change to prove the new theory.
Quacks, all of them.
Answer - nuclear power, which on our submarines has a higher safety history then oil tankers, pipelines, offshore oil rigs or airplanes - all of which contain or use oil, which nuclear powered subs do not. We already have the engineering designs and operational safety regimen’s down pat, and I’m sure some retiring Navy nuclear sub engineers and captains wouldn’t mind new careers that used their professional expertise.
Another whacko liberal fascist article predicting that the sky is falling. Soon we will be riding horses again.
All Gorp must be behind this somewhere, extorting oil companies to get paid off by threatening to expose their shipping “pollution?”
Bunker “C” is foul stuff. We used to use it in several plants I worked in. It has to be heated before you can even pump it, it’s so thick. When burned properly, it does put out a lot of sulphur fumes, as it has so much sulphur in it.
As for causing deaths? Unless you are constantly inhaling thick fumes, it’s a rare, uncomfortable inconvenience to any other than those super-sensitized.
There is the whole “acidification” issue, mind you.
In World War II two thousand ships were sunk, spilling fuel into the sea. Many of the ships carrying fuel burned. Practically every city in Europe burned to the ground. Practically every building in Russia between the Urals and Germany burned to the ground. Most of the city buildings in Japan burned to the ground. A year after the war the skies looked clear.
So tell me how we’re all going to die because ships burn bunker fuel.
The Russian carrier Kuznetsov is laid up now and needs to be re-boilered.
Ukraine isn't in the mood to sell them.
No. Horses fart.
LMAO
Thats right, they would tax your horse farts by putting a rectal meter on the animals.
Are you sure that isn’t from all those smokey Russian jet engines?
Yeah, but we’re next! LMAOA
How much pollution does greenpeace and sea shepherd pump into the atmosphere with their rusting hulks?
Now its Twenty-two gigantic cargo ships, and they still use the lowest quality, garbage oil available. P.S. The Australian fires in 2013 sent more co2 into the atmosphere then humans will in a Hundred Years.
Bet the solution is more Marxism.
Total rubbish.....
Nope, go nuclear.
How do they know this? Just for a moment I'll consider that what they say is true -- that this is nasty stuff and it's going to cause some problems, including millions of untimely deaths. How would they know which people died from this?
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