This yard on North Rolling Road, Springfield, Pa. is not the blazing carpet of purple that it was last March 15, but it’s only Feb. 7 and the crocuses are popping up.
Maybe there is something to this global warming. It’s actually kind of pleasant. Pump out that CO2.
OK, if that last sentence really upsets you, and you are totally convinced that this warm winter is really a harbinger of the doom of our species here is a plan for you:
The United States has 104 operating nuclear reactors that produce about 20 percent of our electricity. Most of them were built between 1970 and 1986. They produce zilch in the way of greenhouse gas.
The U.S. has 1,460 coal-powered generators. They produce half of our electricity, along with lots and lots and lots of greenhouse gas.
So if you are serious about saving the world from greenhouse gases you will immediately begin crusading to replace our coal-powered plants with nuclear ones. It will require about 300 new ones. If we put our mind to it we can do it within a decade.
And here is something for all right-thinking — sorry, correct-thinking –progressives to mull on: if the production of greenhouse gases is as catastrophic as you insist it is, it will turn out to be Jane Fonda who has destroyed the world.