The climate-change deniers have now gone nuclear

Murderous mayhem in the Middle East sends oil prices through the roof – $78 a barrel and climbing. Electricity prices are up 35% in two years, gas prices up 53%. So the government launched its energy review last week in a turbulent market. With no certainty on price, all estimates of the costs of various energy technologies are equally back-of-the-envelope guesses.

So political predilection guides this whole debate: the pro-business right is instinctively pro-nuclear, the left is anti. Without verifiable forecasts, one expert’s envelope flap vies with another’s. That allows political passions on all sides to masquerade as pure science or economics.
The old right has been on an arduous journey, with most finally converted to the truth universally acknowledged, except by flat-earthers: the world is warming at life-on-earth threatening speed. When the climate-deniers’ case collapsed, they retreated to an ideological redoubt claiming global warming was a natural phenomenon, not amenable to man-made remedy. But that fortress crumbled too, and even George Bush, last of the deniers, conceded.

For some reason the old deniers, barely batting an eyelid, shifted over to nuclear as the only salvation, though those who have been so wrong owe a little humility when it comes to next steps. Many hail from a bizarre tradition of rightwing bad science:

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