At Climate Central, I take stock of Monbiot’s recent onslaught against the anti-nuclear movement. Check it out and chime in over there. **** P.S.- The RSS feed for Frontier Earth is now fixed. Also, comments will be approved promptly (except when I’m asleep!).
George Monbiot is on quite a tear. His latest riposte begins: Over the last fortnight I’ve made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged, and wildly wrong….Continue Reading…
Well, George, I did warn you. Here is Monbiot, sounding gobsmacked by the outcry to his recent pro-nuclear power column: The accusations have been so lurid that I had to read my article again to reassure myself that I hadn’t written the things that so many of my correspondents say I wrote. Not everyone is foaming…Continue Reading…
Michael Levi on why we don’t have a rational discussion: Most advocates can’t admit that there are any downsides to nuclear power. Most opponents can’t accept that nuclear power has anything going for it. But a commenter at his site, who is a Stanford law professor and energy policy expert, makes a good point about…Continue Reading…
George Monbiot makes his case: Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally. This should be fun. George, time to crank up one of the classics:
The news out of Japan keeps getting worse, and the images are heartrending. The situation with the nuclear reactors continue to unfold in an alarming manner. For those trying to grasp the technical side of that story, I found this write-up in Nature quite helpful. Most of the news media coverage right now is understandably…Continue Reading…