On: Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming? (1983) [pdf]

[Mistletoe → ams6110]

Wouldn’t that be the smart thing to do if both fossil fuels and nuclear had glaring environmental drawbacks not shared by renewables?

[ams6110 → Mistletoe]

In comparison to the alternatives, nuclear has the fewest environmental drawbacks.

[Mistletoe → ams6110]

On the long term scale, absolutely not. Plutonium-239 has a half life of 24,000 years, a length of time 5x longer than all of recorded history. Can you predict what humanity and earth will be like over long time spans like that and that your low environmental drawbacks remain in effect the entire time?

I also have my doubts about your "low environmental drawback" assessment. When have wind or solar, etc. caused anything remotely like Fukushima or Chernobyl?

[anigbrowl → ams6110]

Maybe because nuclear proponents can't resist using pejorative language when dismissing public concerns about safety.