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As I understand it, nuclear power is really making strides in affordability and safety. I have no qualms with upgrading existing nuclear power facilities or building more. However, I am definitely not opposed to more investment in renewables. Their costs have been falling precipitously. At least that is what I have been reading.I am not opposed to nuclear power. The issue is, are burning fossil fuels causing climate change. The answer is a resounding yes. Even fossil fuel companies admit it. Now the only question is what to do about.The above posts by the climate deniers show just how successful the disinformation campaign promulgated by the fossil fuel companies have been. In a recent BBC article , Phoebe Keene, explained how Exxon used ”the tobacco playbook” to sow doubt about anthropogenic climate change.
The only thing worse than Exxon is CO2.
We need to really stick it to these awful fossil fuel companies.
How many new nuclear power plants should we build?
100? 200? More?
Replace the 50 aging nuclear plants in this country,.. Build 50 new ones.. Problem solved. TOMORROW if you want it with 3rd nuclear plants that don't look ANYTHING like what we have now..
Even James "the GodFather of GW we're all gonna die" Hansen has said (with 20 other top environmentalists) that "If you believe you're gonna solve GW with wind and solar -- you probably believe in the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny"...
Problem is -- too many folks MORE SCARED of nuclear power than they are about a planet they THINK is gonna die from GW in the next 12 years.. Stop FRIGHTENING the children and grow up..
GW is NOT A CRISIS anymore.. That's WHY you folks far behind the science aren't getting any traction for your circus train.. It's now an issue of RESPONSIBLE POWER PLANNING that COULD be fixed if the will to do it was actually there...
Exxon Mobil was correct.. The rest of this frightening tale is sadly irrelevant.. In YOUR lifetime depending on how old you are -- the globe has warmed by a measly 0.6 to 0.9DegC -- not 2 or 3DegC.. And ALL of the IMAGINED superpowers of CO2 have NOT manifested. No accelerations, No empirical evidence that the whacky add-on postulations about "runaway warming" are in play...