I personally think irrespective of why it is getting warmer we humans wont be able to fix the problem
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I think the uranium lobby have a vested interest in generating the fear of global warming as they can offer co2 free energy....and so NP seems like a safe clean option...and it may be that NP is not as bad as the various problems with past accidents are addressed and accidents will never happen again. But that is the nature of an accident really ..no one expect them and so that is why they are called accidents... maybe it is all good for NP but I wonder.
The waste of NP plants is a worry of course and one wonders if future generations may be in a hole because of the shortsightedness of the long term solution that is safe...at the moment.
I did hear that there is a mine somewhere in the Northern hemisphere stacked with neuclear waste in drums (medical or power station stuff I have no idea) and originally thought to be secure that now is getting water in the mine and the drums therefore are in danger of corrosion and the waste leaking into the system...I may be that they are already corroded but as it was in the North why should I worry..it will never effect us right
I dont know more than that maybe someone else does
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That story could be a rumour circulated by anti NP folk or it could be a real concern.
Fear and concern will sell newspapers of that there is no doubt so one must regard everything as suspect if you can not nail it down.
There seems little question things are warming up be it man made or not that fact seems to be backed up by many observations.
I was talking to a chap today where they have ice fishing (Finland) and he said where he is the ice is getting a little more thin (or should that be less thin
no that must mean it is getting thicker I guess
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Al Gore has some evidence as well...that if you can take it that he has not been selective with the material for his movie...the inconvenient truth.
AND he does not really practice what he preaches when you think of how he gets around and how his home burns $30,000 odd a year in energy...
AND so maybe we just have to work at adjusting to a new hotter world where the seas are higher, the deserts are of greater extent the polar bears have to be kept in a fridge and some cities become skin diver attractions
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One would think as I have said many times if the problem is so great that city lights could be turned off and fridges in those blocks declared illegal
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Maybe car racing could be eliminated and in place cars on electricity powered by batteries charged by solar panels could be the go
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We can tax carbon and Governments love that but for us mugs at the bottom of the heap we all know up top tax is something to be avoided and even evaded...and those paying the tax pass it down to the mugs at the bottom..so we each pay more tax and polution goes on I would think.
Anyways as I said I was trying to be a little cute with my question and looking outside one may as well babble here as look at TV because no astronomy tonight.
Sorry this is rushed but I must go
alex
