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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which exists to spread the peaceful use of the atom, reveals in a new report that it could not grow fast enough over the next decades to slow climate change - even under the most favorable circumstances.

Nuclear power cannot solve global warming, the international body set up to promote atomic energy admits today.

Global warming has suddenly put nukes back on the agenda — but there’s a lot the industry isn’t telling you

By Amanda Witherell amanda@sfbg.com

Patrick Moore’s presentation isn’t as slick as Al Gore’s. The slides he shows lack a certain visual panache and don’t compare to the ones in An Inconvenient Truth. Moore himself seems a little frumpy, particularly as he peers out across the audience recently gathered in the Warnors Theatre in Fresno.

It’s tempting to turn to nuclear plants to combat climate change, but alternatives are safer and cheaper.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-nuclear23jul23,0,378363.story?coll=la-home-commentary

The Los Angeles Times | Editorial

It’s tempting to turn to nuclear plants to combat climate change, but alternatives are safer and cheaper.

Cranking up more nuclear power plants won’t answer the country’s energy needs and it’s a poor way to fight global warming, two nuclear power critics said Wednesday during a stop in Columbia. A buildup of nuclear plants could cost taxpayers billions of dollars and create more high-level atomic waste, said environmentalist Brent Blackwelder and Robert Alvarez, a former U.S. Energy Department official.

http://www.heraldonline.com/109/story/77512.html

“Virtually every energy technology available today produces greenhouse gas emissions, including nuclear power. The myth that nuclear power or “clean coal” technologies are carbon-free illustrates how many of the nation’s thought leaders are using first-grade math on the complex calculus of climate stabilization.”

As we plan a response to global warming, many good thinkers are grasping at simple solutions to a very complex problem.