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<div>The irony! </div>
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<div>As some promote nuclear power to substitute for CO2 emitting fossil fuel energy, we read this suggestion to use nuclear power to assist in fossil fuel development and use, and thus facilitate increased CO2 emissions...
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<div>We hear the skeptics about human induced global warming talk about the uncertainties of climate science, questioning the necessity of taking dramatic action to reduce CO2 emissions. Of course, if the Earth's climate was being considered for an insurance policy against damages, and there was a 50% chance of the estimates of damage from human induced global warming predicted by the IPCC coming true, no insurance company would offer protection, or the price would be astronomical.
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<div>This website below at first struck me as a extremist and unscientific analysis of the threat of human induced global warming, but after careful reading, it now seems like a warning from the point of view of a worst case, though possible, scenario, backed mostly by credible climate science. There is a section on the damage to the insurance industry from severe climate change:
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<div><a href="http://www.planetextinction.com">http://www.planetextinction.com</a></div>
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<div>Ted Moffett<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Solomon</b> <<a href="mailto:msolomon@moscow.com">msolomon@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><tt><font color="#000000">Extracting the oil from the bitumen is so energy intensive that nuclear plants may be built to power the refineries.</font></tt></div>
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