[ RadSafe ] The hot and cold of history & journalistic credib ility

[ROGERS, Brent]

Bill

I don't see this analogy at all.  One would have to "ignore..." a great many
"...reputable scientists who have dedicated their lives to understanding
their professional fields" to DENY global warming is in some way due to
human activities.  While I haven't seen any polls, I'd reckon well more than
50% of reputable scientists whose professional field intercepts the global
warming phenomena would accept this principle, at least in some degree.

I don't think the same could be said for opposing nuclear power.  The
problems there aren't scientific, they're political.

Brent Rogers
Leader Commercial Radiation Safety Group
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
PMB 1, Menai NSW 2234
T 61 2 9717 3251
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E brent.rogers at ansto.gov.au 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Prestwich [mailto:prestwic at mcmaster.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, 7 February 2007 6:21 AM
To: jjcohen at prodigy.net
Cc: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] The hot and cold of history & journalistic
credibility

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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