There's a reason Warren is surging

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76. Really? We're closer to a nuclear war than ever before?

I was a child in 1963. I thought at the time - I remember it well - I would be vaporized in the afternoon.

You have touched on two issues on which I have paid deep and considerable attention over 30 years, climate change and nuclear science.

I certainly know more about this topic than any common journalist I've seen in the last twenty years.

You are trying to make a case that Joe Biden, and only Joe Biden can save the world, and frankly, although I have great respect for him, I think you are making a very weak case.

This isn't 1964. We have an insane person in the White House and even he is too afraid of nuclear war to use nuclear weapons.

I think that Obama was the best President of my lifetime, and I very much appreciate the role Biden played in his administration, which was hardly passive.

First of all, on climate change, Joe Biden was a member of an administration that hired Steven Chu, who was an excellent choice on climate change, but later the Obama administration also hired the complete fool Gregory Jackzo to head the NRC.

There is no one who has ever done as poor a job at the NRC the job that Glenn Seaborg, Democrat Nobel Laureate and effectively his predecessor in the nuclear job Jackzo held in the Obama administration. I am sure Glenn Seaborg would have been as appalled by Jackzo as I am. Jackzo came into the role with a supremely ignorant bias that borders on criminal.

This shithead thought that his fear of radiation - fear, not fact, outweighed the fact that seven million continuously observed people die each year from air pollution, and that the fact of massive climate change was also outweighed by picayune bureacratic nonsense directing his fear.

That ignorance kills people, every day, 19000 of them.

Jackzo was the worst, and most ignorant person ever to have held that position and, in fact, the worst appointment of the Obama administration, by far.

And please don't tell me about Jackzo's Ph.D. I have personally known thousands of people holding scientific Ph.D.s and I'm hardly always impressed by them. It's very clear that Jackzo was a tragedy for the planet.

The key to both nuclear disarmament and to climate change passes through plutonium, and frankly, no Democratic candidate is going to deal with those dual realities unless we have someone who can change their mind and think in a completely new way. The only way to see what is clearly there, is to look at data and interpret it.

I see no evidence whatsoever that Joe Biden is better than any other Democratic candidate on climate change. I do know that he is probably already familiar with people with bad, weak and old ideas.

Nor, citing the cases I did previously, do I believe that by virtue of being a former VP, one is supremely qualified to be President. This is no dig at Biden, but the last former VP with lots of foreign policy experience, some of which worked for good, was Richard Nixon. Another President with lots of foreign policy credentials, a former Secretary of State, was, until Trump came along, generally considered the worst President in history, James Buchanan.

Too much familiarity with the old ways, particularly in times of great instability can actually be a bad thing.

I am not supporting Ms. Warren because she agrees with my positions on nuclear energy. I have not looked at her views at all. But I do know that she can do what Lincoln asked Americans to do in an even more dire time than this one, He said, "We must think anew."

What I do know is that she looks at the data, and she thinks, and she can change her mind.

The facts are clear on climate change, and I trust no one more among our candidates to act on them than Ms. Warren.

I'm sorry that I don't agree that Joe Biden is the hope of the world. I like him; I admire him; and if he's the nominee I would not question for a New York second to vote for him, but I would prefer someone who, again, has a demonstrated ability to "think anew."

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. - Lincoln, 1863 message to Congress.

Ms. Warren is way too smart to put aside.