The waste problem is still just that, a problem. Countries like France, Great Britain, India, and Russia all have begun so-called Nuclear waste reprocessing or recycling. However, what I see as the problem, particularly in Latin America (as you say, some "future generation of thugs"), is that this waste is still transported by rail and road to the reprocessing site. No security breaches have occured in the aforementioned countries, but who's saying that this could not happen in the future. As the article notes, Latin America is still "a region with dangerous levels of violence."

The French have been doing this reprocessing for 30 years without a problem--no terrorist act, no individual or group stealing uranium--but, I'm still cautious about introducing such a policy into a region that is still plagued by a degree of persistent violence.

Considering what Lula and to an even greater extent, Hugu Chavez claim to stand for in their own respective countries, I am not quite understanding their affinity in supporting an Iranian regime such as Ahmadinejad.

Perhaps they are principally motivated, especially the latter individual, by simply seeking to oppose any measure or position held by the United States. Ahmadinejad's policies in Iran and nearly everything his regime stands for is almost exactly the opposite of what Chavez touts in Venezuela.

I am convinced that ClimateScience has officially merged entirely with ClimatePolitics. It has gotten to the point that we no longer question the validity of Global Warming (human-induced) and instead follow blindly the proposals of ClimateScientists. The last century's global warming of about 1 degree F is not a consequence of human activities. This warming is primarily the result of a multi-century changes in the globe's deep-ocean circulation. These ocean current changes have lead to a small and gradual increase in the globe's temperature.

We are coming out of the Little Ice Age and into a generally warmer climate state. This is akin to the warmer global climate of the Medieval Period.