They maintain that over the course of many years, deep into the next century, this process of global warming will likely proceed far enough to be dangerous to our children and grandchildren. Thus sayeth the vice president. It must be so.
Nuclear power produces electric power without emitting any greenhouse gases.
President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore say America will not build any more nuclear power plants on their watch, and threaten vetoes to slow the process. Mr. Clinton announces with great fanfare that America will now be selling nuclear reactors to the Chinese and that this would have a great environmental benefit for the Chinese. Probably all of the above, but with its genesis in tree-hugging green fundamentalism. The decades-long argument about nuclear power offers a key to that mystical and muscular religion. But the spooky idea of poisonous, invisible radiation became too tempting a target for neo-Luddites.