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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
yes thanks to nuclear power which countries like France (80%), Japan etc get most of their energy and have been prior to kyoto, so it's no suprise it has had little effect on their ecomomy...a country like the US gets about 20% of its energy from nuclear sources.....but hey the same people protesting about cutting emissions are protesting against nuclear power
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I'm not sure I understand your point. These countries used nuclear power prior to 1990, so this was included in their base targets. Switching is what creates the reductions, i.e. if these countries used coal prior to 1990 and switched to nuclear in the meantime, that would show tremendous reductions. As an aside, Alberta coal plants produce about 7% of total GHG emissions in Canada - clearly if we had switched completely to nuclear since 1990 we would have a much better reduction record. Please feel free to correct me, but I don't see your logic whatsoever, besides some random shot at a fool.