Re: Stirring the pot

[mgoldman@ucdavis.edu (Dr. Marvin Goldman)]

>> What kind of boost for nuclear power might come from solving the waste
>> disposal problem? If Ward Valley and other low level storage sites open and
>> Yucca Mountain begins actually storing spent fuel successfully, could this
>> result in a shift toward nuclear as a way to mitigate global warming?
>>
>> Bob Flood
>> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
>> (415) 926-3793     bflood@slac.stanford.edu
>> Unless otherwise noted, all opinions are mine alone.
>
>
>This may be a good strategy - fighting public hysteria with junk science
>(global warming arguments).  Seriously, there are so many bad conclusions
>in global warming.  The first is that the earth is warming.  The second
>is that, even if it is warming, it is man's fault, and not a natural
>event.  I just find it hard to believe that, though meteorologists cannot
>predict the next days wheather for a whole state, they can predict the
>wheather for the whole world for decades to come.  I have heard few
>meteorologists espouse global warming, but have heard many politicians
>and activist espouse it (they wouldn't lie would they?).  I have to
>wonder, since there are three distinct possibilities for global
>temperatures, where are the activists for the other two (cooling or
>stasis)?  Maybe I am not catching on to the global warming fad, or maybe
>I am an idiot.
>
>Robert A. Jones
>RAJ6582@acs.tamu.edu

IMHO global warming is NOT junk science.
mgoldman@ucdavis.edu