Just a quick thought about global warming. The current orthodoxy states that human carbon emissions are causing global warming. We should all reduce our carbon emissions to prevent catastrophe.

Reduction of carbon emissions is not the same as reversal. The excess carbon released into the atmosphere over the last two centuries will not dissipate significantly over the next few centuries. Surely, if the greenhouse theory is correct, reduction in carbon emissions from fossil fuel will only delay global warming. It won't halt it. What if the entire world reduced its carbon emissions to 50% of today's levels? Then the critical atmospheric carbon levels would simply take twice as long to attain.

If only a cessation or reversal of emissions will ultimately save the planet then we've fucked it - only a global nuclear war will save the planet.

Nuclear power doesn't contribute significantly to global warming. And nuclear war may cause a total cessation of human-made carbon emissions.

There would be a very neat symmetry if oil wars ever led to nuclear wars.

It's no wonder some people say that the global warming orthodoxy is propogated by the nuclear industry.