This year, rising temperatures have caused the ice cap on the Arctic Ocean to shrink to the smallest size ever recorded.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/11/29/pol-ice-sheets-melting-greenland.html?autoplay=true
Information from
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“The first nuclear power programs were launched in the United States in the mid 1960s and in Europe in the early 1970s.”
And from
HERE
“Today, the world produces as much electricity from nuclear energy as it did from all sources combined in 1960.”
And the waste has higher energy content than the material that turns the turbines.
And from
HERE
“The global volume of spent fuel was 220,000 tonnes in the year 2000, and is growing by approximately 10,000 tonnes annually.”
Seems to indicate that nuclear power and nuclear waste generation has kept pace with the global warming effect quite well.
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