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April 26, 2008
Countermoonbattery from Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore
The two most salient facts of the supposed climate change crisis are: 1) there is no proof that human activity causes global warming; and 2) if carbon emissions really were causing a problem, the only effective solution would be nuclear power.
These facts have been resolutely ignored by an establishment that does not actually believe in global warming, but is only exploiting the hoax for its nefarious socialistic ends. But in the fever swamps of the environmental movement, you can find a few people who really do care about the environment, not all of whom are too flaky to draw rational conclusions:
Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore says there is no proof global warming is caused by humans, but it is likely enough that the world should turn to nuclear power[…]
"It's like buying fire insurance," Moore said. "We all own fire insurance even though there is a low risk we are going to get into an accident."
The only viable solution is to build hundreds of nuclear power plants over the next century, Moore told the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday. There isn't enough potential for wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal or other renewable energy sources, he said.
Moore began his career fighting nuclear testing. Somehow he managed to resist ideological ossification, so that he was able to live and learn.
Unfortunately many others in the environmental movement are reflexively antihuman, and will resist any modern technology that allows civilization to flourish.
On tips from Oiao and mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at April 26, 2008 11:06 AM
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Color me IMPRESSED! It's nice to see rational thought seep into the picture.
"But in the fever swamps of the environmental movement, you can find a few people who really do care about the environment, not all of whom are too flaky to draw rational conclusions"
Very well put VH!
Posted by: monsterforge at April 26, 2008 11:19 AM
Mr. Moore preserving his integrity. Crypto-Marxists not at all.
Posted by: Mockinbird at April 26, 2008 12:43 PM
I agree fully with Mr. Moore. Nobody's had an accident at a nuclear reactor since, what, Chernobyl? And the French have had reactors since, it seems, God was a child. I'm sure in the intervening years, they've figured out how to store the spent rods, too, and with reactors powering submarines and aircraft carriers ... well ... I say, GO NUKE!!!
Posted by: Mister Prickly at April 26, 2008 1:06 PM
"Mister Prickly at April 26, 2008 1:06 PM"
To continue your post...
I can name only three accidents with nuke power plants: Three Mile Island, Chernoble and Peace River, which was more of an "oops" than an "accident" in comparison.
I have heard (But can't verify( that the new reactors like those in Europe use up approximatly 70-75% of the fuel rods while the old reactors like in the US only use up 15-20%, which means LESS material to dispose of!
The problem is that a lot of people think there diffrence between a nuclear power plant and an atomic bomb!
Posted by: KHarn at April 26, 2008 6:20 PM
The last sentence whould read "The problem is that a lot of people think there IS NO diffrence between a nuclear power plant and an atomic bomb!"
Posted by: KHarn at April 27, 2008 11:45 AM
"The only viable solution is to build hundreds of nuclear power plants over the next century . . ."
Fine by me, and we should be moving in that direction (again, after too long a hiatus).
But the actual "viable solution" is to find, drill, extract, refine and transport OIL, of which we have more than enough to last two or more centuries even accounting for growth over that entire period. Looks like the Brazilians have just struck the "mother-lode" with two of the three largest oil fields ever discovered, eclipsing even the Saudi fields in their entirety.
Lord only knows how much we have in ANWR, off the various coasts and farther offshore (though likely the Cubans and Chinese will have sucked a good deal of the crude in the Atlantic area dry before we get off our asses and get it ourselves).
Regular gasoline for under $1.00/gallon again, anyone? All we gotta do is GO GET IT!!!!! Tell the enviro-wackos: "You can continue to pay $4.00/gal. for your gas, and we'll use the excess to buy 'carbon credits' for you, to assuage your guilt; meanwhile, the rest of us regular folk will pay the market price once we've got this oil refined and ready to be pumped into our automobiles and trucks." That should make 'em happy (anything to take away that crushing guilt)!
Posted by: jc14 at April 27, 2008 8:28 PM
