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Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer? Ha. Do some research! Jimmy Carter TOOK A CLASS in nuclear physics while in the navy. He is NOT a nuclear engineer.

On the amount of carbon dioxide released by burning coal -- (several tons of CO2 per ton of carbon in coal) this is meaningless gibberish. As a mining engineer, I have heard a lifetime of silly comments by EXPERTS such as Tucker, who grab whatever "facts" sound good to them at the time. Yes, several tons of CO2 COULD be created ...in a lab, theoretically...per ton of carbon...

C'mon.

I was considering subscribing to The Spectator, as I have enjoyed it in the past, but you need to screen your contributors. This piece could have been written by a high school kid doing a "science" report.

p>I have no beef against nuclear energy, but any knowledgeable person will laugh out loud when reading Tucker's article. There were several more thigh-slappers I won't even comment on. Send Tucker over to write for The Nation . br> -- John Decker br> Kenai, Alaska /p>

Once again, The Spectator proves that it is a truly liberal publication; it prints opinions that are not necessarily accepted by its constituents.

Some of Mr. Tucker's points are quite practical. In a country that faces energy shortages, an astronomical debt, and an ongoing war, there is only so much tree hugging that we can do.

p>I disagree with Mr. Tucker's premises: that global warming is a fact and that human activity causes it. The industrial revolution, which has been in process for over 2 centuries, would have produced a temperature spike long ago, if the climate were not self regulating, as I suspect. We are simply at the peak of a cyclical warm period that Al Gore, inventor of the Internet, described in "Earth in the Balance." Those old enough to remember the 1960s, will recall scientists predicting a new Ice Age! The reason that a carbon dioxide consuming shade tree is better than a tarp is that the tree is converting the sun light into cellulose, not just blocking it. br> --

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