The nuclear option isn’t political expediency but scientific necessity

I feel both encouraged and dispirited by recent developments in climate change. Encouraged because the Kyoto treaty was finally ratified in February, and over the last few weeks politicians around the world have been meeting in Montreal to discuss their countries’ commitments to reduce damaging greenhouse emissions. The conference agreed to implement the Kyoto protocol and, crucially, to initiate processes to set new targets beyond 2012. Dispirited because the latest scientific information tells us that these decisions have not come a moment too soon.
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