Junk Science on Fox News: Environmentalists Prompt Nuclear Power Wake-Up Call

[bananas]

This piece of junk science on foxnews.com reads like one of NNadir's rants.
It gets basic facts wrong (Flamanville is in France, not Finland),
and attacks environmental organizations and environmentalists, especially Amory Lovins.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404185,00.html

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Environmentalists Prompt Nuclear Power Wake-Up Call

Thursday, August 14, 2008

By Steven Milloy

What did the nuclear power industry get for playing footsie with the "greens" on global warming? A knife in the back, it looks like. The greens now are saying that emission-free nuclear power may actually contribute to climate change.

After decades of having its growth entirely stymied by anti-nuclear environmentalists, the industry decided to help the greens lobby for global warming regulation in hopes of easing opposition to the expansion of nuclear power. Companies like Exelon, FPL Group and NRG Energy, for example, helped the greens form the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) — a coalition of big businesses and green groups that has been leading the charge on Capitol Hill for global warming regulation.

But as the saying goes, when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

A case in point is the proposed addition of a third reactor at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in southern Maryland. The greens formed a group euphemistically called the Chesapeake Safe Energy Coalition (CSEC) to oppose the new reactor. Members of the CSEC are hardcore anti-nuclear activists including the Sierra Club, Public Citizen, Maryland Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), the Maryland Green Party and the Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility.

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For those who don't know, Steve Milloy is a corporate shill:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Milloy

Steven J. Milloy is the "junk science" commentator for FoxNews.com and runs the Web site junkscience.com

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Scientists and science writers have argued the term is used, by Milloy and others, almost exclusively to "denigrate scientists and studies whose findings do not serve the corporate cause," in the words of David Michaels.<10> In an editorial in Chemical and Engineering News, Editor-in-Chief Rudy Baum called Milloy's junkscience.com website "the best known" example of "a right wing effort in the U.S. to discredit widely accepted science, technology and medicine." He went on to label Milloy "a tireless antiscience polemicist" who applies the term "junk science" to "anything that doesn't match his right-wing concept of reality."<11> Along similar lines, an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health noted that "... attacking the science underlying difficult public policy decisions with the label of 'junk' has become a common ploy for those opposed to regulation. One need only peruse JunkScience.com to get a sense of the long list of public health issues for which research has been so labeled."<12>

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More info on this slimeball at prwatch and sourcewatch:
http://www.prwatch.org/search/node/milloy
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?search=milloy&fulltext=Search

[kristopher]

1. Milloy is as bad as they come.

I only hope enough people recognize how they've been hoodwinked by this crowd to allow us to change things this election...

[kgrandia]

2. Throw Junk Science off Fox

I actually had a petition up last year that I never really had time to push it around it has about 350 signatures on it urging Fox News to dump the Junk Science Man Milloy: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stopglobalwarmingjunkscience/