Nuclear is a water-guzzling energy source: it cannot survive droughts and climate change
The thirstiest source of electricity is already struggling, and greater risk of droughts will only add to those woes.
The thirstiest source of electricity is already struggling, and greater risk of droughts will only add to those woes.
Faced with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report, some environmental leaders are all too ready to toss a lifeline to aging, uneconomic nuclear power plants. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), long venerated as America’s most rigorous nuclear watchdog group, joined this chorus in early November.
How the IPCC’s solutions for reversing the Earth’s warming encourage business as usual.
For the first time in decades, it’s hard to ignore the threat of nuclear war. But as long as you’re far from the blast, you’re safe, right? Wrong. In this sobering talk, atmospheric scientist Brian Toon explains how even a small nuclear war could destroy all life on earth — and what we can do to prevent it.