...it would only prove that ignorance is popular.
This of course, is not new. In the time of the bubonic plague, a popular solution was to pray more, which had no effect on the death rate, any more than 50 years of expensive and wasteful chanting about the toxic and failed solar industry, which despite the squandering of hundreds of billions of euros, yen, yuan and dollars, can't produce even a half an exajoule of energy out of the 520 exajoules of energy used each year by humanity.
We still hear the same chanting right now, as the atmosphere is dying at the fastest rate ever, mostly because fear and ignorance and scientific illiteracy pretended that a natural disaster that killed 20,000 people by <em>drowning</em> - about 10% of the death toll from drownings at the great 1976 renewable energy disaster at Banqiao that killed between 175,000 and 250,000 people - involved radation, even though the radiation deaths were zero.
The renewable energy industry, despite the idiotic popular enthusiasm for it, can't even power the servers that anti-intellectual anti-nuke lightweights use to power servers and computers dedicated to telling us how wonderful renewable energy is.
In fact, in a scientific journal, and not some dumb anti-nuke website with an oxymoronic name, they had this to say about the grand 60 year failed experiment in solar energy:
Our analysis found that the PV industry was a net electricity consumer as recently as 2010, and in 2008 the PV industry consumed 75% more electricity than it produced.
Environ. Sci. Technol. 2013, 47, 3482−3489
Of course nuclear power is unpopular in the vast circle jerk of anti-nuke bourgeois consumer brats. it's not like their scientifically literate.
In other parts of the world, ignorance is nowhere as powerful as here.
But I would like to congratulate all the anti-nukes on their grand victory over the planetary atmosphere. Both February 2013 (3.18 ppm increase over the disastrous Feb 2012) and March 2013 (2.91 ppm increase over the disastrous March 2012) set all time records.
I don't know what the "solar will save us" set is, probably some kind of religious cult probably, but one they are not, is environmentalists.
The environmentalist Jim Hansen, one of the most famous climate scientists in the world, also wrote a paper in Environ. Sci. Tech, which will come out in the next issue:
It's called
Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power
He writes:
Mortality. We calculate a mean value of 1.84 million human deaths prevented by world nuclear power production from 1971 to 2009 (see Figure 2a for full range), with an average of 76 000 prevented deaths/year from 2000 to 2009 (range 19 000−300 000). Estimates for the top five CO2 emitters, along with full estimate ranges for all regions in our baseline historical scenario, are also shown in Figure 2a. For perspective, results for upper and lower bound scenarios are shown in Figure S1 (Supporting Information). In Germany, which has announced plans to shut down all reactors by 2022 (ref 2), we calculate that nuclear power has prevented an average of over 117 000 deaths from 1971 to 2009 (range 29 000−470 000). The large ranges stem directly from the ranges given in Table 1 for the mortality factors.
There is no way to interpret his remarks other than this: Anti-nukism is just
murder.
Of course, Hansen is not a mob of dumb people parroting silly rhetoric. He's a scientist, an important scientist, and thus deserving no respect by pop cultists.
But we have to concede that fear and ignorance, as often happens, has won the day, and there is no hope for the planetary atmosphere as we race to and actually scrape 400 ppm.
Congratulations anti-nukes.
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/You must be very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very proud.
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