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Risks To Human Health Will Accelerate As Climate Changes, White House Warns (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Washington Post: More deaths from extreme heat. Longer allergy seasons. Increasingly polluted air and water. Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks spreading farther and faster. Those are among the health risks that could be exacerbated by global warming coming decades, the Obama administration warned in a new report Monday. The study, more than 300 pages long and several years in the making, focuses on what the White House has described as one of the gravest threats to the nation: major health problems associated with climate change. It details direct effects, such as the potential for worsening air quality to trigger thousands more premature deaths from respiratory problems or an uptick in annual deaths from crushing heat waves. While every American could be affected, administration officials said Monday, the brunt of the harm is most likely to fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable populations, such as pregnant women, children, the poor, the elderly, minorities, immigrants and people with disabilities.
Or how to repurpose a natural phenomenon to sell us on international carbon tax. YAY!
Any solution needs to be affordable, in order to get everyone on-board. Businesses and developing nations in particular are not going to accept throwing vast sums of money at nuclear when other clean energy sources are cheaper and much less risky. When I say "risk" I don't just mean the chance of a serious accident, I mean the financial liability risk. Wind is a fairly safe investment over a predictable period of time with predictable costs. With nuclear there is so much uncertainty about basic stuff, like how long the plant will be able to operate for and what the regulatory requirements (i.e. costs) will be in the future, and what decommissioning and waste management may end up being...
If someone can find a solution to the high cost of nuclear power (hint: it's not NIMBYs) then it would be more popular, despite opposition on safety grounds. Since when did big business and developing nations care much about safety and the environment? They care more about money, that's the problem you need to address.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
And any disagreement is, of course, offensive , like a slap in the face, and thus equivalent to verbal assault.
Which is still an assault and therefor must be prosecuted — because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. In a few easy steps all haters can be sent to Gulag, problem solved.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Sadly for you, winning PR war won't protect you from the facts.