Posted by
Rocky Mountain Foundation on Sunday, December 07, 2008 12:00:00 AM
This letter-to-the-editor by Rocky Mountain Foundation president John Dendahl was published online by The Denver Post on December 7, 2008.
Post readers were treated last Sunday to some of Ted Turner’s advice to the next president (”Address causes of climate change”). Turner wrote as chairman of the United Nations Foundation, which many Coloradans will remember has as its president former U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth.
So I went to the foundation’s website to see what it has to say about energy. Right at the top is a recent article by Wirth, blather that could have come out of the environmental movement 35 years ago supplemented only by mention of the new bugaboo, that nasty carbon stuff.
In close to 900 words, this man who long ago drank the global warming Kool-Aid never mentions “nuclear.” Nuclear-electric power has achieved a safety record unmatched by any other industry since the Industrial Revolution, and the plants do not emit any of the so-called “greenhouse gases” that are blamed (falsely) for global warming (that may no longer be occurring).
Here’s the deal: Tim Wirth, Ted Turner, Al Gore, et al, have the resources to know that nuclear energy must be used far more extensively if they are serious about a transition away from fuels that produce carbon dioxide. Until they advocate nuclear energy, their worry about global warming should be considered a flat-out lie and ignored.
NOTE: Apparently Tim Wirth's article linked above has been taken down. Here's one that's even worse, an address of nearly 3000 words titled "Realistic Strategies ..." in which nuclear energy isn't mentioned!