Wall Street Nervously Eyes Thermometer as Temperatures Rise

Editors of the Journal of Record of Capitalism (oh, sorry Brits, no, not The
Times) today considered the Kyoto Protocol (to the International Framework
Convention on Climate Change) worthy of front-page news.

On the other hand, to their credit, they also recently ran a front-page
article publicizing the OBVIOUS contention (by French industrialists) that
nuclear power may have a major effect on carbon-dioxide emissions control
(if not emission-control treaties) if economic sustainability is not
entirely ignored.

Where the Earth's atomospheric energy balance of ambient gasses is
concerned, the fuel mix of power generation facilities in Asia is really all
that matters for the next few hundred years or so: the rest is just petit
political posturing by populists pandering to a puerile public.

-dl