Why is CO2 the only issue mentioned when discussing the burning of coal or other fossil fuels?....
It is not,...
the global warming / climate change acolytes focus on CO2 because it is easy,...
in the US of A you have at least CAA, CERCLA, CWA, FIFRA, RECRA, SDWA & TSCA which are just the compliance monitoring programs for emissions, etcetera,...
air, water, dispersal media, aerosols, it really goes on and on and on,...
these are the things that all informed realists understand are unavoidable to live at a first world standard of living,...
in any full life cycle assessment of any energy production scheme there are no zero emissions, only managed emissions,...
except for sunlight, we can harness sunlight, we cannot manage it, the sun does not care one whit what we do,...
commercial nukes involve a lot of emissions in the prospecting, mining, transportation, construction, fabrication, fuel manufacture, waste disposal, etcetera,...
plus, there are the logistics of the massive nuke security expenditures in ammunition production, patrol vehicles, weapons production and weapons proficiency,...
all electricity production has these types of costs and emissions,...
the tailings and waste ponds from the rare earth mining and processing creates vast brownfields in far off parts of the world so you can have "green" windmills and your "eco-friendly" Prius,...
BUT,....
you already know the Green Gaia acolytes do not have time for those considerations, that would be called "thinking too much",...
better a single "eco-devil" served by malignant capitalist demons in pitched battle against Hollywood Heroes and Politician Paladins,...
kinda like those stained glass window storyboards you see in some, if not many, old churches,...
stained glass windows which stood as proxies for an illiterate congregation which would or could not read for itself and inform itself,...
Valid point ...
plus,...what he just said,...