That says more about the efficacy of political parties than it does the weather.
So we have a nuclear power thread? Yesterday Angry Astronaut reported on a six-month round trip to Mars. Today he reports on the pushback:
The sooner industry migrates off-planet the better for everyone. A NERVA-like test would have to run for thousand of years to equal one Hiroshima blast. I say run the tests in a dormant salt mine.