To the left, the name Kyoto is to international treties what the name Mumia is to U.S. death row inmates. They'll give it up when you pry their cold, dead fingers off their giant protest march puppet heads...

But nothing on the coming Ice Age?

Scientific illiteracy is pretty much universal in America. How many Americans seem to think that gasoline comes from pumps, and that meat comes from supermarkets?

You can probably still win votes on 'global warming' because Americans are so completely ignorant of science and history. Just look at the anti-nuclear movement and the tremendous success it has had over the years, despite the utter absence of any evidence that nuclear power is less safe than any other.

Does "Chernobyl" ring any bells ?

Michael:

Chernobyl was a function of Bolshevism, not nuclearism. It does demonstrate why it was absurd to fear Soviet military power though.

Virtually all of French heat and electricity is produced from nuclear power, and they have never had an accident. If they can do it, with their opera buffa quality control on anything mechanical, I think we could too.

Except that we haven't.

The military had an experimental reactor melt down in the hills above LA in the 50s.

I don't doubt that commercial nuclear power is fairly safe; however, it's clearly more dangerous than a coal-fired plant.