Patrick Moore has been off the reservation for a long time.
Yet again, another liberal demonstrates that he was on the wrong side of history. Have liberals EVER been right about anything of historical significance?
Been waiting for this for a long time. If greens were ever serious about their arguments they should have been Nuclear Power supporters since day 1. But the green movement has been more about politics than environment.
I'm all for this, especially if they invest heavily in fast breeder reactors. Breeder reactors can use U-238 and through neutron absorption and then subsequent beta decays, produces Pu-239 which is fissile. There is enough U-238 laying around in mill tailings to provide 100% of the entire U.S. power needs for the next 500 years. This removes the need for costly enrichment of U-235, commercial reactors typically need 3%-5% U-235. Naturally occurring uranium is 0.7% U-235 and about 93.2% U-238 with a little smattering of U-234.
"AS co-founder and former leader of Greenpeace, I once opposed nuclear energy. But times have changed, and new facts of compelling importance have emerged - and so my views have changed as well, as have those of a growing number of respected, independent environmentalists around the world...."
The information has been out there since the 1980's. Being increasingly exposed as fraudsters leeching off the public -- yes, times have changed -- of course you'll change your mind so as not to further confirm your frauds.
Morons.
And we have her heinous trying to shut down Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in New York.
It's a bit late now. His stupidity and that of his friends have set back nuclear power in America by decades, wasted billions of gallons of oil, enriched the Arabs, empowered the terrorists, and polluted millions of leftist minds.
The Democrats in congress don't WANT to solve the energy crisis. It gives them a tool to bash the Republicans, and they aren't about to relinquish that tool.
This guy helped persuade the country to put an end to nuclear power, but I doubt very much that anyone will pay much attention to this reversal.
The Tree SolutionAs Greenpeace expanded to become the world's largest international environmental organization, Moore's star steadily rose and he eventually became vice president of research. Then he did something even more unexpected than joining the organization in the first place. He packed up and quit... In the months before his departure, Moore had begun talking heresy. "The environmental movement had gone astray and lost its perspective on forests," Moore says. "Rather than cutting fewer trees and using less wood, we should be growing more trees and using more wood." Greenpeace branded him an eco-Judas. Now comes the biggest surprise of all. Recently published research suggests that Moore is right. Cutting down old trees could be the best way to thwart global warming.
by Jim Wilson