ChristinaMac,

I would be the last person to advocate nuclear. But I can see a day when the demands placed upon dwindling reserves will result in supply having to be met by any means possible - including nuclear.

The world has probably past "peak-oil" and I'm sure we are seeing the beginnings of this in the cost of petrol. Australia has perhaps 30 years of natural gas (probably less when we export it hell-for-leather) and about 350 years of coal (same export rule applies). There is about 50 years of uranium in the ground.

Wasting Uranium in machines that are less efficient than kettle is stupid. We come nowhere close to E=MC^2 using uranium in this manner.

Populist actions of a few European countries are surely based on Russian gas-supply-related agreements.

Although importing pollution as consuming world resources in increasing numbers is very Australian notion, one should bear in mind some national security considerations while speaking of nukes especially.

Global warming is only a theory ,if in 30 years ,low lying islands could be wiped out you would think that sea levels would have rose in the last 200 years but they have dropped.All the scare mongers say were gonna have this were gonna have that how can they know, the world is billions of years old, making the last 20 or so pretty insignificant.

Decentralised, localised, on your roof, in your backyard; this is surely the way forward.
Of course this will be difficult for the sow to allow her suckled child to be ripped from her teat.

Yeah, gals and pals,

Threatening the folks with who-knows-what-to-be is an industry for the privileged in, for instance, Australia, to be simply employed.

And reality is that ozone layer is being recovering although not so fast as predicted. Moreover, season change process is being altering as well and flora/fauna have responded with more earlier term of species’ maturity.

Therefore, acceleration is a common process yet only humans demonstrated by since 50s.

Logically, increased reproducing capabilities and decreased maturity terms point to more harsh earth conditions where the Ice Epoch rather than Over-warming on agenda.

My conclusion is very much motivated by ideas of already mentioned around “X-Challenge”:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/302957/