[ RadSafe ] The hot and cold of history & journalistic credibility

[Bill Prestwich]

The refusal to accept nuclear power is just like the refusal to accept global warming due to human activities. In both cases the dissenters ignore reputable
scientists who have dedicated their lives to understanding their professional fields.
Bill Prestwich

jjcohen at prodigy.net wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ruth Sponsler" <jk5554 at yahoo.com>
> To: <jjcohen at prodigy.net>; "howard long" <hflong at pacbell.net>; "Bill"
> <wwebber2004 at comcast.net>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 1:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] The hot and cold of history & journalistic
> credibility
>
> > Climate change and nuclear power are _not_ the same thing.
>
> Ruth,
>     Of course what you say is true from a phenomenological standpoint. What
> I was alluding to was that public attitudes toward both nuclear power and
> global warming are based largely on misinformation. That's why I hate to see
> flaunting the threat of global warming as a means of selling nuclear power.
> With or without this threat nuclear power is a good idea that shouldn't need
> phoney arguments  to support it.
>
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