I rarely participate in global warming panic because it's  become, more than anything else, an excuse for environmental aggression and deceit, including clean coal, bio-fuels, and carbon trading, a.k.a., indulgences.  And for the hugely toxic and carbon intensive global boom in uranium mining and milling, nuclear enrichment,  nuclear power, and thus---let's face it--nuclear weapons.

For the past two years, Barack Obama, John McCain, and even George Bush postured about climate change, clean coal, and carbon-free nuclear, along with the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, especially House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco's born-again nuclear evangelist, even as they voted, over and over to fund the fraudulent War on Terror, at a cost that no doubt could have funded a Solar and otherwise Sustainable New Deal.

Today, 02/05/2009, the U.S. Senate is debating $50 billion in vaguely described energy  loan guarantees that could, without more legislative precision, eliminate private capital risk to clean coal and nuclear power corporations.

Australia's Antinuclear.net visually deconstructed the myth of carbon-free nuclear, last year, as so many of our politicans, and uranium-rich Australia's politicians, advanced it.

---Annie, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

As well as radioactive wastes, the uranium/nuclear industry releases greenhouse gases, increasing global warming.

At successive steps in the uranium/nuclear cycle, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. This is shown above, with black dots as the carbon rising. The industry also usees enormous amounts of fuel - as electricity and in the huge amounts of oil in transporting uranium, nuclear fuel and wastes.

In the large diagram above - there is one aspect missing in the story of the nuclear cycle, and of its carbon emissions.

This aspect is becoming critical now, with very many reactors, world-wide, reaching the end of their functional life.

How to get rid of them? How to dispose of a huge dead building which has itself become a nuclear waste?

The word "DECOMMISSIONING" - is one of those lovely Wobbly Words - covering up the fact that it really means a huge destruction and engineering job, in which greenhouse gases are released into air, water and land.