Talk:Thermal pollution

message: "In the Northern Hemisphere, a common cause of thermal pollution is the use of water as a coolant, especially in power plants. "
Don't we have power plants in the southern hemisphere? Sorry... 58.164.39.1 (talk) 11:52, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the Northern Hemisphere... 

message: and unsupported of correct. This section reads like a high school term paper. Most of it is assertion without support 
If this is even true for any species is doubtful. If it is true it is too broad a treatment. Primary producers include algae, chrysophytes, diatoms, etc...  all of which might respond differently.
This is but one example that could be clipped from this section. Someone should rewrite this with examples that have  proper citations from scientific studies. magazines are not proper sources....
"Primary producers are affected by warm water because higher water temperature increases plant growth rates, resulting in a shorter lifespan and species overpopulation."
Avram Primack (talk) 04:07, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most of the ecological effects section is wrong 

message: ...and is uncited. The 'Ultimate model'? 'statistical variations in meteorology'? What? Energy balance water temperature modeling began in the 1960's.
But honestly is temperature modeling interesting or relevant enough to put in here? I ask this as someone who has made his living over the past year modeling water temperatures. I'm deleting that section - if you want to replace it please cite.Mandoliniment (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 20:02, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modeling section makes no sense 

message: does this relate to thermal pollution?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.253.189.141 (talk) 20:45, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Global Warming 

message: How does an algae bloom *reduce* oxygen levels??  That doesn't sound right.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.88.30.235 (talk) 19:16, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Algae Bloom 

message: In Isaac Asimov's book, "A Choice of Catastrophes", he refers to thermal pollution as "increasing Earth's average temperature above what it would be in the absence of human technology through heat radiation", and makes no specific mention of water, or any of the issues brought up in this article.. Is Asimov's definition an idiosyncrasy, or has the definition changed since 1979 (when the book was published)? The2crowrox (talk) 04:25, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate definition of the term 

message: If you search for "thermal power plant discharge water temperature" or similar search on steam-electric power plant thermal discharges, you will find an abundance of studies associated with nuclear power plants and not much on the more general topic of thermal power plants. The vast majority of the nuclear plant studies were performed specifically to expose some negative impact of nuclear plant operation, as there are many well-funded anti-nuclear power environmental groups with the stated agenda to close all nuclear power plants. Most anti-nuclear studies lack any meaningful technical rigor and should be interpreted with extreme caution if you want to produce a technically credible result.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.103.72.2 (talk) 16:29, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thermal pollution