The problem I have with the debate is that in science and politics today we seem to be playing dodge ball not chess. Hit the other side as hard as you can so they won't strike back. I am an anthropomorphic anthropogenic climate change skeptic denier and on top of that CO2 is not the primary man made greenhouse gas, water vapor is. In addition to that while CO2 has continued to climb there has been no corresponding rise in global average temperature for two decades. The debate around CO2 does not carry much weight with me but there is a lot more than CO2 coming out of the stacks of fossil fuel plants such as heavy metals like mercury. Stable baseline power, intermittancy of renewables, and market stability are all part of the power mix while CO2 is the ball in these debates that leaves welts but no lasting sustainable results. Trump is removing a lot of CO2 regulations and I expect that his appointees will continue to do so probably making the CO2 debate moot in regard to nuclear power.
