- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Emm... No one has yet come up with a viable way to get rid of nuclear waste by the way, not even in America or Europe. The only way anyone knows is to bury it underground and leave it for a few thousand years, while all the time it leaves a potentially lethal mix relativley acessible to disaster, or terrorist attack. I personally dont want a cloud of atomised (as in turned into tiny particles in the air, not actually reduced to it atoms) nuclear waste anywhere near me. The other way top despose of it is using it in DU (depleted uranium) ammunition, but when used they atomise, causing a smaller scale but similar problem. Look at the increased rate of cancer in Iraq in the areas that DU was used. Also Nuclear is totally economically unsound. The only reason they survive is due to government subsidies, as they cost so -blam!- much to run. If they competed openly with wind, for instance, wind would be cheaper (though gas and possibly coal are cheaper than renewables), and the companies running the things would go down. Basically it possibly might provide a stop gap to cut emissions, but it can only be that, as there are inherant problems with fission power.
Global Warming a hoax? And who told you that? The vast majority of respectable climatologists say it is occuring, the mainstream debate being about how soon until it is too late to change much. There are those that disagree but frequenly they have alterior motives to their research (such as funding from groups such as Esso), though it is possible they are right, but surely it is better to act then find out it was unneccessary than not to act and find out its too late. The point about the volcano I am not sure about, as I dont know where your sources have come from, but it *may* be true, though I think highly unlikely, though they do ahve the ability to spew out large amounts of gases, but also have led to the cooling of the planet (dust into the atmosphere blocking sun slightly) and are in fact one of thoeries of what contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs. Btw if our planet should be doing anything climate wise, it should be cooling down, as we are still in the middle os an ice age, though a warm spell of it (and and it is meant to go cold again before it ends properly), so therefore the fact we are warming up is not according to what should happen. True, life will survive almost no matter what happens (unless we humans actually phisically destroy it), but I think I am fairly comfortable with the climate as it is a the mo, and so therefore any change would be uncomfortable for me (though if at all, it wouldnt affect me for long due to the time scale involved) and future generations.
And BTW the magnetic field is not going to flip in 50-100 years. It is true that it does this, but it doesnt leave us bear to solar radiation, as otherwise earth would be a lifeless deseart, as it has happened before. Also it is not due for a long time, we will get warning signs before it happens, and none suggest one is due so soon. There certainly be higher levels of radiation during the switching period, as it is severly weakened, but life on earth would survive, and we have the inginuity to survive through it too.
Hmm... I am a bit tired at the mo, so if some of the logic is not well explained or some of the stuff isnt right, or the spelling etc, its due to tiredness.
[Edited on 2/6/2005 3:00:24 PM]