Oops! Kyoto's Bad

Here's the first Kyoto success story!

A row over the Netherlands' only nuclear plant, due to be shuttered in 2013, heated up this week as the country debated how best to provide energy after the passing of the Kyoto Protocol against global warming.

Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende trod carefully Friday, telling journalists that although the closure of the Borssele nuclear plant was still the "current policy" the debate on nuclear energy "was not standing still."

The only thing that's released by nuclear power stations is steam, which quickly cools down and condenses back into liquid dihydrogen monoxide. Unfortunately, because it's warm when it leaves the stack, it's labeled "bad" under the new Kyoto protocol.

And my sympathy is, of course, zero.