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CBS ‘Early Show’ Blames Winter Storms on Global Warming NewsBusters.org Exposing and Combaing Liberal Media Bias By Kyle Drennen | February 02, 2011 Speaking to physicist Michio Kaku ….
Dr. Kaku : “… as the Earth begins to heat up, that means more moist air in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico on average. Which creates more precipitation, and eventually more snow.” Wragge followed up: “Is this going to continue?” Kaku argued: “…on average, temperatures are going to rise. Remember, last year was the hottest year ever recorded in the history of science, next to 2005, since 1880. So the Earth is heating up…..CBS ‘Early Show’ Blames Winter Storms on Global Warming | NewsBusters.org

U.S. Nuclear Output Falls After Exelon’s LaSalle Reactor Shuts,  Bloomberg, By Aaron Clark – Feb 3, 2011 U.S. nuclear-power production fell after Exelon Corp.’s LaSalle 1 reactor in Illinois automatically shut when a main power transformer tripped offline……. U.S. Nuclear Output Falls After Exelon’s LaSalle Reactor Shuts – Bloomberg

‘Into Eternity’ – A Nuclear Future, With Or Without Us : Film Review, NPR, 2 Feb 2011 Into Eternity is a documentary about a massive crypt called Onkalo (Finnish for “hiding place”), the world’s first permanent underground vault for nuclear detritus. The movie considers the practical problems of burying the deadly stuff so effectively that it won’t be disturbed during the hundreds of centuries necessary for it to decay. But because the time frame is so long — far longer than recorded human history — these problems become philosophical, even mystical……
Scientists discuss the risks and acknowledge that Onkalo won’t contain even all of Finland’s nuke waste — to say nothing of any other country’s. What animates the film is the otherworldliness of the under-construction project and the paradoxes the finished Onkalo will embody….. Movie Reviews – ‘Into Eternity’ – A Nuclear Future, With Or Without Us : NPR