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Yes. It's time for a grown up discussion about energy/emissions/cost not how "green" this or that is. Taking an historical view, the only country to have almost entirely replaced fossil fuels in electricity generation is France. It did it with nuclear energy. The IEA has some interesting...

Of course not. However I did some back of the envelope stuff on the cost to convert Australia's electricity to nuclear. Unfortunately, we are cursed with shed loads of coal. Even worse in the state of Victoria they have sheds load of brown coal which is even more polluting. And the stuff is...

1. Encourage the rapid deployment of nuclear power for electricity generation using Generation III+ nuclear power plant designs such as the Westinghouse AP1000 or Areva EPR. The effectiveness of this is demonstrated by France which has CO2 emissions at around 60% that of comparable Western...

Bullshit. The ice core CO2 levels at Taylor Dome match up remarkably well with direct atmospheric CO2 measurements: Atmospheric and ice core measurements are directly comparable, and you are yet again taking nonsense.

Besides being rather ill mannered, your powers of observation are rather lacking. If you will observe the green line you should notice that it took ~ 20,000 years for CO2 to rise from it's most recent minimum of 200 ppm to 280 ppm. Since it reached the pre-industrial level of about 280 ppm it...

Most likely. There is also the issue of regional climate shifts that may be a lot stronger than average. eg desertification of SW USA, SE Australia etc etc. High CO2 levels also result in grains with lower protein content. It's really very complex - something that escapes the "CO2 is plant food"...

Around 25% of the worlds population does not even have electricity. Mobile phones would not be a lot of use if you couldn't charge them. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=electricity-gap-developing-countries-energy-wood-charcoal I'm with the previous poster regarding the...

Ahhh ... The philosopher-traders on ET back on the job again.

You're thinking only of desktop systems etc. Linux is big in the server market. Google runs on Linux. A fair slice of all the web servers in the world run Linux. Linux dominates the super computer world - of the top 500 non-classified supercomputers in the world 455 run Linux, 5 run Windows...

What a lot of nonsense. AMD did well on the server side with Opterons. They have been set back a bit in that market with the latest crop of Intel server class CPUs but are still a very serious player. I'd like to hear what software that a trader may possibly be interested in that won't run on...

Nice graphic. It should be noted that an atmospheric concentration of CO2 of 450 ppm (which will in all likelihood be reached by 2050) will probably be sufficient to eventually melt the entire Greenland ice sheet leading to a sea level rise of 7 meters.

Atmospheric CO2 is 390 ppm not 380. Many scientists do not believe that we should be producing more CO2. That is a straight barefaced lie. No national academy, scientific society or professional body has issued such a ludicrous recommendation. On the contrary they recommend strongly that CO2...

http://www.squid-cache.org/ Squid is a proxy, not a firewall. In fact, it is the best proxy available. You can certainly black list and white list domains, control access by time of day and lots more.

Health care in the USA has been seen by the rest of the western world as a circus for years. The shortest route to electoral extermination for any government in any western country would be to try to introduce a US style health care system. The US system is the most expensive in the world and...

Your point is entirely obscure. It is known that vaccines can in a few cases induce autoimmune conditions, which should hardly be that surprising. I developed some interest in this topic as my daughter developed an auto immune condition. There are a few cases of ITP that are possibly related to...

You really haven't been listening have you? Over geologic time, at higher temperature rock weathering draws down CO2. Rock weathering is far too slow to deal with the rapid increase of atmospheric CO2 caused by humans.

Trader666, If you want to understand better the role of CO2 in the history of the Earth's climate this video of a presentation to the American Geophysical Union by Professor Richard Alley is simply outstanding. http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/lectures/lecture_videos/A23A.shtml

Has it not occurred to you that work by the CDC is accountable in the sense that scientific positions are available for review and scrutiny by scientists all around the world. No doubt mistakes happen and from time to time and incorrect advice may be provided, but to assert that that it's all...