Critics Blast Climate Scientists Going To Bat for Nuclear Power

[kristopher]

19. I think...

...we are all humans and that you have little capacity for dealing with reality or feeling actual empathy for those in the midst of it.

I didn't pick your expressions here, you did.

I asked what do you think the public reaction will be globally if/when another meltdown occurs that doesn't get wondrously blown out to sea and instead takes with it a major population/economic center?

And you think the response to the loss of a major city, like Tokyo, is best characterized as "Blind ignorant panic" And that the global reaction amounts to, "Screaming headlines and overpaid irrelevant commentators. Again. Even more (or our investment) will be wasted in knee-jerk responses that will do nothing to make the world safer."

Prime Minister Kan has shared this concerns that Tokyo would need to be evacuated and perhaps abandoned. The winds during the crisis phase were largely out of the West and blew by far the largest percentage of the contamination out to sea. Had those same winds been from the ENE/NE his fears would have been realized.

Forgetting the human toll, simply the financial toll would probably be more than a trillion dollars. And when you add in the jolt to a nation that such an event would cause, the cost is incalculable.

The fact that you fail to see that as an monumental 'bad' and the reaction from the lay public as a reasonable and inevitable part of the human landscape that hosts the problem we are trying to solve is, as I wrote, "astounding".

So, I did not cherry pick, act out of irrational prejudice, nor "smear" anyone. You however, have been steadily escalating with a series of what can only be described as malice-laden, anti-social carping aimed at me personally. I get it, you don't like me - now please take a hike, it will be better for your blood pressure.