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“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt<\/p>\n
Kate is a good decider(unlike the other Decider).\u00a0 She makes a decision a second if necessary.\u00a0 Somewhere along the line she and Teddy Roosevelt must have drunk the same water.\u00a0 I’m a muller and wonderer.\u00a0 It’s nice to have two different decision making styles at home because it allows a long view and a necessary, lets do it now attitude to reinforce each other.<\/p>\n
Two iconoclasts have crossed my way of late.\u00a0 Freeman Dyson is one.\u00a0 He’s a really smart guy, a physicist and an employee of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton.\u00a0 He’s written all sorts of stuff; I’ve read his essays, but none of his books.\u00a0 He thinks global warming is real, but that the radical consequences predicted are not.\u00a0 One telling aspect of his critique involves the notion of climate models.\u00a0 He claims that assumptions used to build those systems are not accurate.\u00a0 If the assumptions are no good, the model can not be.\u00a0 I don’t know the science, but he’s a guy whose thought matters.<\/p>\n
I’ve not changed my mind.\u00a0 At least not yet.\u00a0 But he has made me wary.<\/p>\n
The second is a Patrick Moore, a founder of Green Peace and now, ironically, a supporter of nuclear power.\u00a0 In an article published in 2006 he makes the argument about base-load generation that I mentioned a couple of days ago.\u00a0 He seems to think nuclear is the only generative source with enough oomph to replace coal in the interim between now and an eventual switch to renewables.\u00a0 I found his arguments less compelling.\u00a0 He seems to think reprocessing is a reasonable solution to the waste problem, but a Scientific American I read this week points out many problems with reprocessing, not the least of which is that it produces plutonium, material useful in a bomb.<\/p>\n
It’s good to have received wisdom challenged by reputable people, it sharpens the debate and makes everyone think more clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon (seed moon) “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt Kate is a good decider(unlike the other Decider).\u00a0 She makes a decision a second if … Continue reading The Decider<\/span>