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I've looked at the climate issue myself, and what I've found is that the Earth's climate is in constant flux, mostly owing to cyclical changes in solar output - nothing to do with us. Where you and I live was under a km of ice 10K years ago. That's what carved out the Fraser Valley. Alberta and Sask. were once a shallow sea with a tropical climate. It's utter nonsense to think we can control any of that, but worse, by imagining that we can, we detract from the urgent measures needed to control pollution and the degradation of our natural environment. Those are the things we can do, but get pushed aside by this absurd carbon agenda, which is nothing more that a scam to enrich a handful of corporations and wealthy aristocrats.

Even if it were true, and carbon is a real problem, how are you going to stop China, India and other nations from pursuing industrialization? China and India burn a lot of coal. They will eventually replace that with nuclear energy. Are we against nuclear energy as well? Seems like it, and yet that's actually a practical way to reduce air pollution, which is a major threat to health in much of the world.

Today's reactors are not like the ancient power plants that caused the problems being hoicked up as a reason to abandon that approach. That's like claiming automobiles are unsafe because a few old cars from the 60's are still on the road. New technologies always have startup issues, but it doesn't mean we abandon them. Look how far we've come in aviation since the Wright Bros. This is one area where people need to be educated so they understand that there are alternatives to the Green Agenda of wind and solar power, both of which are colossal failures and can never fully replace the use of petroleum or nuclear power in modern society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor

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Good work, please keep it up!

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