Nukes Bad, Thus CO2 Good?
Bensblurb #598 3/16/11
Nukes bad, CO2 Good?
Here’s Holman Jenkins in today’s Wall Street Journal: “In the unlikely event the world was ever going to make a concerted dent in CO2 output, nuclear was the key. Let’s just guess this possibility is now gone, for better or worse.”
Even so, today’s nuclear plants are much safer than the older ones spewing now. As Chaos Manor notes, via Instapundit:
“The important lesson from Japan is that we took obsolete reactors with old designs and safety features, and subjected them to a 9.0 quake and a very large tsunami, and the damage to the planet is an unfortunate but hardly decisive event. It is now time to stop worrying about this mess until things settle and we can see precisely what we have learned, and factor that into the next generation designs. Note that almost everywhere in the world we are building reactors with much better design and far better safety features than those being destroyed now. Concentration on how awful is the nuclear mess takes our attention off the economic and human disasters from the earthquake and tsunami.”
Back to CO2 and EPA’s power grab:
As I pontificated yesterday, in published reaction to Pajamas Media‘s Roger Kimball piece, “I watched some of the EPA administrator’s fending off of Reps’ questions yesterday on TV and wanted to throw up. In one instance, she said the Corps of Engineers had done things she had to correct and then turn down an approved application (which probably had been ruminating in the bureaucracy for years). The EPA, she indicated, has science on its side while the others don’t. What arrogance. The executive agencies, as exemplified by EPA, are running wild, thumbing their noses at Congress and getting away with it. We citizens don’t have a clue about their dominance. We’re in big trouble.”
--There, I feel better now. And by the way I consider it a badge of honor to have been banned last fall from further commentary in reaction to articles appearing in Huffington Post. Perhaps that kind of stifling of contrary opinion is why most of the reactions beneath HuffPo’s articles lean so strongly liberal.
EPA getting trashed?
So the Democrats are scrambling to combat a vote against the Obama administration’s climate regulations ahead of a possible Wednesday floor showdown, according to Politico. Senate Majority Leader Reid signaled he would allow a floor vote on a Republican amendment to nullify the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases.
So what? Even if the measure were to pass both Houses, there stands President Passive to veto the thing anyhow. Alas.
--Ben Blankenship
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Nukes bad, CO2 Good?
Here’s Holman Jenkins in today’s Wall Street Journal: “In the unlikely event the world was ever going to make a concerted dent in CO2 output, nuclear was the key. Let’s just guess this possibility is now gone, for better or worse.”
Even so, today’s nuclear plants are much safer than the older ones spewing now. As Chaos Manor notes, via Instapundit:
“The important lesson from Japan is that we took obsolete reactors with old designs and safety features, and subjected them to a 9.0 quake and a very large tsunami, and the damage to the planet is an unfortunate but hardly decisive event. It is now time to stop worrying about this mess until things settle and we can see precisely what we have learned, and factor that into the next generation designs. Note that almost everywhere in the world we are building reactors with much better design and far better safety features than those being destroyed now. Concentration on how awful is the nuclear mess takes our attention off the economic and human disasters from the earthquake and tsunami.”
Back to CO2 and EPA’s power grab:
As I pontificated yesterday, in published reaction to Pajamas Media‘s Roger Kimball piece, “I watched some of the EPA administrator’s fending off of Reps’ questions yesterday on TV and wanted to throw up. In one instance, she said the Corps of Engineers had done things she had to correct and then turn down an approved application (which probably had been ruminating in the bureaucracy for years). The EPA, she indicated, has science on its side while the others don’t. What arrogance. The executive agencies, as exemplified by EPA, are running wild, thumbing their noses at Congress and getting away with it. We citizens don’t have a clue about their dominance. We’re in big trouble.”
--There, I feel better now. And by the way I consider it a badge of honor to have been banned last fall from further commentary in reaction to articles appearing in Huffington Post. Perhaps that kind of stifling of contrary opinion is why most of the reactions beneath HuffPo’s articles lean so strongly liberal.
EPA getting trashed?
So the Democrats are scrambling to combat a vote against the Obama administration’s climate regulations ahead of a possible Wednesday floor showdown, according to Politico. Senate Majority Leader Reid signaled he would allow a floor vote on a Republican amendment to nullify the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases.
So what? Even if the measure were to pass both Houses, there stands President Passive to veto the thing anyhow. Alas.
--Ben Blankenship
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8:27 AM
