Tag Archives: climate change

Planet Earth RIP

It’s been widely reported this week that carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has reached record levels – 400 parts per million (here). This is the highest level of CO2 for 3 million years – long before modern humans existed … Continue reading

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Plutonium is good for you: or, happy astroturfing

This week the Guardian published an article (in CIF America) about Fukushima. The article, by Richard Schiffman, went over much the same ground as my recent post about Fukushima (see here). Of course in no time at all the astroturf … Continue reading

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How global warming has completely changed the nuclear power debate

In the past, George Monbiot (a UK lefty and environmentalist) would have been most definitly anti-nuclear, as would many others of a similar ilk. Over the last decade, though, there’s been a fundamental shift, due to the perceived effect of … Continue reading

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