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May/June 2006 Editor's Viewpoint
Letters to the Editor

To the Editor:
I noticed the “Methane release from melting permafrost” article [Mark Goldes article, March/April, 2006] with interest. I was somewhat frustrated with inaccuracies but then I got to the second page and was flabbergasted. The author says about global warming and greenhouse gases, “heat is the problem.” He says nuclear plants produce heat and therefore are not solutions. Rubbish. There are many reasons to be against nuclear, but heat from a nuclear plant or fuel cell contributing to global warming is absolute nonsense. This type of clear absurdity hurts the environmental cause.
--Paul Schroder

Mark Goldes replies:
Thank you for pointing out the error. Carbon is the problem. We must rapidly replace technology that produces Carbon Dioxide with systems that do not. Positive alternatives include wind, solar, and a handful of other existing renewable systems, as well as a handful of revolutionary new, thus far severely underfinanced, technologies. Uranium fueled nuclear plants have numerous problems including long time delays, and are, therefore, not as desirable as alternative technologies. Sorry about the error.
--Mark Goldes