When a newspaper article crossed my desk this week, trumpeting the fact that seven major companies including Dupont, Shell and BP would be voluntarily scaling back their levels of "greenhouse gas" emissions into the atmosphere, I had a quick flashback.

I recalled sitting in my car, listening to Rush Limbaugh quoting some of his scientist friends who questioned whether there is any real "global warming" problem for us all to be concerned about.

The real issue here is not Rush Limbaugh. The larger question is one of "junk science." And atmospheric models that may be leaving out one of the most important variables in their "global warming equation."

Several years back, a researcher named Nick Begich wrote a book called "Angels Don’t Play this HAARP." The title referenced a massive array of broadcast towers erected in the wilds of Alaska, used as part of a government "research" project that allegedly had multiple civilian, military and black budget applications.

Everything from over the horizon radar capability to population mood control were offered as potential byproducts of the radio array…that used mind blowing amounts of power at extremely low frequencies to direct wave patterns that could also heat the upper atmosphere and alter weather patterns.

The plot thickens. Most Americans known nothing about the HAARP project and the impact it may be having on global warming. And if you wanted to convince the world that we need more international treaties, greater global control and advancement of the New World Order, creating of an emergency like "global warming" could be just the ticket.

But let’s assume for a moment that the 17 thousand qualified scientists, including Dr. Singer of the National Science Foundation, all of whom signed a statement saying that global warming is not a problem, let’s assume they’re all wrong.

Would the five-percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions demanded by the 1997 Kyoto Protocols really have much of an impact on the problem?

Or would it make more sense for the world to draw upon a virtually limitless supply of electrical power, generated without CO2 emissions, allowing non-renewable energy sources like petroleum to be used where it makes sense, powering our automobiles.

I repeat…nuclear energy makes sense. It’s pollution-free and one of the safest means of power production ever devised by man.

Those worried about nuclear meltdowns or chronic Chernobyls can rest easy. All US reactors and virtually all nuclear power plants in the world are totally contained in concrete building enclosures.

Such was not the case in Chernobyl, the world’s most poorly designed nuclear facility, that has seen not one but three of its reactors taken off line in separate operating crises.

I personally believe, at least in this case, that Rush is right. I question the motives of those scientific harbingers of doom. I doubt there is a genuine global warming problem. But it’s good for the world to have a Plan B, just in case. And that stands for "Back to Nuclear Power."

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