‘The only source of energy that can meet global demand while avoiding greenhouse gas emissions is nuclear power’
This is misleading in so many ways. The largest greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is WATER VAPOR. It is impossible to produce large scale electricity without producing water vapor except in a damn. They keep tearing down the damns. All large scale power plants that are not damns are steam powered. Some use coal, some oil and some gas, but they all produce STEAM to run the dynamos.
I understand your point, but it shows a drastic misunderstanding of how water vapor works in the atmosphere.
H2O is naturally present in up to 1 to 3 parts per hundred, not low parts per million, as with all the other greenhouse gases. Uniquely, it constantly goes in and out of the atmosphere by the processes of evaporation and condensation.
IOW, while man can affect the humidity somewhat in the locally by things such as irrigation systems, he is utterly incapable of affecting the amount of water vapor air on a global basis.
The teensy amounts produced by industrial processes are quite literally not measurable on a global scale relative to those produced by natural evaporation. 3/4 of the earth’s surface, after all, is water. When heated by the sun, it evaporates at an enormous rate.
These things can be quantified, if you like, but I hope you can just agree that man is not going to change the hydrologic cycle in any significant way. Just can’t do it. The only reason we can affect the amount of carbon, if indeed we are, is because there wasn’t much there to begin with.
‘The only source of energy that can meet global demand while avoiding greenhouse gas emissions is nuclear power’
Why are you getting wrapped around the axle because of feel good BS?
There’s loads of thorium, and if that ADSR pans out, we can mix it with all the toxic, radioactive waste we already generated for more energy.
” They keep tearing down the damns”
Just which damn dams are you referring to ?
Uh...I think you mean “Dam”