Climate denier Fred Singer says "For Sustainable Energy, Choose Nuclear"

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In the January 2010 edition of Rolling Stone Magazine, journalist Tim Dickinson profiled the top 17 United States "polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb global warming". Below is an excerpt from the article titled "Climate Killers" about Fred Singer.[39]

A former mouthpiece for the tobacco industry, the 85-year-old Singer is the granddaddy of fake "science" designed to debunk global warming. The retired physicist — who also tried to downplay the danger of the hole in the ozone layer — is still wheeled out as an authority by big polluters determined to kill climate legislation. For years, Singer steadfastly denied that the world is heating up: Citing satellite data that has since been discredited, he even made the unhinged claim that "the climate has been cooling just slightly." Last year, Singer served as a lead author of "Climate Change Reconsidered" — an 880-page report by the right-wing Heartland Institute that was laughably presented as a counterweight to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's scientific authority on global warming. Singer concludes that the unchecked growth of climate-cooking pollution is "unequivocally good news." Why? Because "rising CO2 levels increase plant growth and make plants more resistant to drought and pests." Small wonder that Heartland's climate work has long been funded by the likes of Exxon and reactionary energy barons like Charles Koch and Richard Mellon Scaife.[39]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/S._Fred_Singer

For Sustainable Energy, Choose Nuclear
By S. Fred Singer | Posted: Thu. October 1, 2015, 12:33pm PT
Also published in American Thinker on Wed. September 30, 2015

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=8539

Of course, all you'll find there is a recap of the same lies the nuclear fan club always try to use in order to hoodwink the public. GreenPeace helps identify them for you:

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