Nuclear energy can’t solve global warming

During a public lecture in San Francisco last month, Jared Diamond, the mega-selling author of “Guns, Germs and Steel,” became the latest and most prominent environmental intellectual to endorse nuclear power as a necessary response to global warming.

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But the truth is that nuclear power is a weakling in combatting global warming. Investing in a nuclear revival would make our global warming predicament worse, not better. The reasons have little to do with nuclear safety, which may be why environmentalists tend to overlook them.

SFGate