Wow, I just learned we're in the "renewable energy" era.

[progree]

12. I changed just a few words

I had no idea. I keep thinking that carbon dioxide concentrations are going up at a record pace, but here were are past the "dawn of the nuclear energy" era that I've been hearing about my whole damned adult life, and I'm not young.

(I also remember hearing the phrase about nuclear energy many times in my youth, "electricity too cheap to meter" -Progree).

I always thought that the "nuclear energy era" would mean the end of the climate change problem. I guess I'm missing something.

It's a new strategy, very popular in some circles I think: When you've lost and failed, claim you won and succeeded.

We have "invested" over (however many) trillion dollars in "nuclear energy" in the last 60 years, with the result that the annual accumulations of carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere have reached an unprecedented 2.4 ppm/year on average, after being well below 2.0 ppm in the 20th century.

Here's what I think about the massive "investment" in nuclear energy: History will not forgive us, nor should it. Someone's going to have to clean all this trash up, and it's not going to be the people who made money off of it.