Michael Shellenberger writes in Forbes, video follows:
Republicans Can Own The Libs on Climate Change By Defending Nuclear Plants On The Brink
Do Republicans realize how vulnerable Democrats have made themselves on climate change?
Out of one side of their mouths Democrats say we have just 12 years until climate doomsday.
Out of the other side of their mouth they call for shutting down nuclear plants, our largest source of clean energy.
In February, when she introduced her Green New Deal, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for a “transition off of” nuclear, America’s largest source of clean, zero-emissions energy.
Last Monday, at a televised Fox News Townhall meeting, Sen. Bernie Sanders reiterated his call for the closure of nuclear plants.
Now, Democratic lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Ohio are fighting legislation that would save both states’ nuclear plants, and prevent a spike in carbon emissions.
If Democrats get their way, nuclear plants, which constitute 90% of the clean (zero-emissions) electricity in those states, will be replaced by coal and natural gas, and emissions will rise.
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If “decarbonization” is the motive for this SMR push, it all seems like windmills and federal subsidies to me. Let the power generators put their money where they think it will do the most good. Let the government stay out of it. And let he who first says “CO2” be put in the stocks for a week.
As an ex-Brit, I marvel that the USA hasn’t yet fallen apart because of their insistence that the politics can only handle TWO parties. Ideally, the party not in power should be “the loyal Opposition”, forcing, wherever possible, the party in power to do what’s right for the country. But that just ain’t so! The corruption across the whole two-party system as it is makes governance unworkable. And when ONE person (Trump) tries to cut across party considerations and is trying do do what he sees as right for the country, the opposition is doing its damndest to stop him, and his ‘own’ party (but not really) just stands back or even interferes!