[lbo-talk] Why Nuclear can't save us from global warming

[Michael Pollak]

http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/uploads/5d/f7/5df75d20f9097a7bcd69a41ee4284998/Generating-Failure---Environment-California---Web.pdf

Argument in a nutshell:

1) The generally bruited (and increasingly horribly comical) drop dead 
date is for global emissions in 2020 to be minimum 25% below what they 
were in 1990;

2) It's 2010 and we've done squat, so that translates into cutting power 
plant emissions by 50% from current levels in 10 years;

3) Not a single reactor is currently under construction in the US;

4) On past form, not a single one would come online before 10 years are 
up even if we went flat out starting tomorrow.

Michael