BackboneAmerica

Denver Post readers were recently treated to some of Ted Turner’s advice to Obama (“Address causes of climate change”, Nov. 30). Turner wrote as chairman of the United Nations Foundation, which many
Coloradans will remember has as its president former U.S. Sen. Tim
Wirth (D-CO).

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.