Concerned About the Planetary Climate, the IEA Urges Rethinking Nuclear Phase Outs.

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5. I'm aware of the opinions of anti-nukes, and the result, recorded in the planetary atmosphere...

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...of their strange obsessions.

I am also aware of their circle of citing each other as if any of them had an ounce of sense or decency.

We hit 415 ppm this year, after trillions of dollars were squandered on steel, aluminum, lanthanides to make wind turbines that will be landfill before today's babies hit college. Those babies are going to have to clean that shit up.

As I repeat over and over with references, seven million people die each year from air pollution while people prattle on about "nuclear disasters."

Here is the most recent full report from the Global Burden of Disease Report, a survey of all causes of death and disability from environmental and lifestyle risks: Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (Lancet 2016; 388: 1659–724) One can easily locate in this open sourced document compiled by an international consortium of medical and scientific professionals how many people die from causes related to air pollution, particulates, ozone, etc.

Seven million people amounts to amounts to a little more than a death every 4 seconds, not that this compares, in the minds of anti-nukes to Fukushima, since these people believe apparently that more people died from radiation in the Fukushima event, their cutesy little obsession with radiation revealed, than died from seawater in the same event. Actually 20,000 people were killed by seawater in the event that destroyed the reactors at Fukushima. How many deaths from radiation again?

Again, I'm aware of this mentality, and note its pernicious effects on the environment, written clearly in the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide concentrations in the planetary atmosphere:

Week beginning on May 19, 2019: 414.74 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 411.44 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 390.53 ppm
Last updated: May 29, 2019

Up-to-date weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

There it is, 24 ppm in ten years, while two trillion dollars were squandered on solar and wind. In the 20th century, that figure was 1.5 ppm per year.

In the 21st century, all the wind, solar, geothermal and wave power increased by 8.12 exajoules, compared to 32.03 exajoules for oil, and 60.25 exajoules for coal.

All this steel intensive so called "renewable energy" crap didn't even keep up with the rise in consumption in that period, which rose by 164.83 exajoules to a total of 584.98 exajoules.

2018 Edition of the World Energy Outlook Table 1.1 Page 38 (I have converted MTOE in the original table to the SI unit exajoules in this text.)

Anti-nukes have placed their bets, but they are not the ones who will pay. The debtors will be every generation that follows, and in fact, every living thing on the planet. It was such a beautiful planet, and it's a shame to lose it to ignorance.

Despite endless dogma, widely spread around the planet, facts matter. The facts are clear, and all the prattling about batteries and lead laced perovskite solar cells and Elon Musk's tragic car for rich people powered by batteries made using "resources" obtained by the use of enslaved children cobalt miners will not cause the acceleration in accumulations to stop.

I need to expand my ignore list.

I did what I could, when I could, but there's no point in hearing endless bull, year after year after year. I've been here for nearly 16 years, and in that time the concentration of carbon dioxide rose by almost 39 ppm, while the whole time the same lines of bull were handled out about how so called "renewable energy" would save the day, most pushed by people who think any death from radiation is worth tens of millions of deaths from completely unregulated forms of energy, the growing use of dangerous fossil fuels, killing at will, because only nuclear energy is required in bizarre obsessions to be perfect and without risk.

Nuclear energy need not be perfect to be vastly superior to everything else. It only needs to be vastly superior to everything else, which it is.

So called "renewable energy" didn't save the day. It isn't saving the day. It won't save the day.

Misplaced faith in so called "renewable energy" is making things worse, not better. It's just lipstick on the fossil fuel pig.

Every air pollution death has a cause:

History will not forgive us, nor should it.

Have a wonderful life.