Prevented Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Historical and Projected Nuclear Power (Pushker A. Kharecha* and James E. Hansen Environ. Sci. Technol., 2013, 47 (9), pp 4889–4895)
I keep a link handy.
On a personal level, it's nice to hear from you. I remember you. I trust you're safe and well.
I never thought you needed softening, whereas me...well...I'm really not all that softened, but I do use the wonderful "ignore key" here now to avoid raising my blood pressure. I have, regrettably, a low tolerance for stupidity.
I wasn't "soft" when I got banned over there. Specifically I said, "If Jim Hansen is right; opposing nuclear energy is murder," or something along those lines. I may have included a few expletives. It seems like little Markos didn't like hearing that, um, truth.
You may also enjoy, on that topic, this paper from Lancet:
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (Lancet 2016; 388: 1659–724) One can easily locate in this open sourced document compiled by an international consortium of medical and scientific professionals how many people die from causes related to
air pollution, particulates, ozone, etc.
It supports, strongly, what Hansen had to say.
Unfortunately we live in a world of selective attention. It would appear that all the deaths associated with the much discussed Fukushima and Chernobyl don't add up to a day's worth of air pollution deaths, roughly 19,000 per day.
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