Gross

I haven't looked it up yet but I'm going to bet dollars to doughnuts that ALL energy sources will have a devastating impact on either enviroment or health or both. I just read that Google has invested billions in a massive offshore wind energy program here on the west coast. Can you imagine how many ecosystems will be disrupted? Our energy hog lifestyle comes at a great cost no matter how you look at it.

No, because we need to force nuclear to account for all the costs. If they actually had to get insurance on the plants (other than the taxpayers) and pay for all the damage they create, the cost of nuclear would skyrocket. The private markets, which peoiple in this country love so much, would never allow the nuclear power industry to exist. It's only because it is subsidized that it is cheap. And because when these doomsday scenarios play out, the company has limited liability (or will just go bankrupt) and the public sector has to soak up the losses (financially and in terms of damaged environment and loss of lives). Why are we subsidizing this crap??? We should be subsidizing cleaner and safer energy.

Money is so feeble an excuse when it comes to protecting and preserving our one and only the planet. For the Earth, only the best will do. Anything less is shortchanging everyone and everything.

It would seem to me that anyone who claims to be neutral, without an agenda, just interested in the science and raw data would shy away from linking to a shill statement like Monboit.
Quote from wikipedia

"Monbiot believes that drastic action coupled with strong political will is needed to combat global warming. Monbiot has written that climate change is the "moral question of the 21st century" and that there is an urgent need for a raft of emergency actions he believes will stop climate change, including: setting targets on greenhouse emissions using the latest science; issuing every citizen with a 'personal carbon ration'; new building regulations with houses built to German passivhaus standards; banning incandescent light bulbs, patio heaters, garden floodlights, and other inefficient technologies and wasteful applications; constructing large offshore wind farms; replacing the national gas grid with a hydrogen pipe network; a new national coach network to make journeys using public transport faster than using a car; all petrol stations to supply leasable electric car batteries with stations equipped with a crane service to replace depleted batteries; scrap road-building and road-widening programmes, redirecting their budgets to tackle climate change; reduce UK airport capacity by 90%; closing down all out-of-town superstores and replacing them with warehouses and a delivery system.[23]

Monbiot says the campaign against climate change is 'unlike almost all the public protests' that came before it:

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.[24]

Monbiot also thinks that economic recession can be a good thing for the planet: "Is it not time to recognise that we have reached the promised land, and should seek to stay there? Why would we want to leave this place in order to explore the blackened waste of consumer frenzy followed by ecological collapse? Surely the rational policy for the governments of the rich world is now to keep growth rates as close to zero as possible?"[25][26] While he does recognize that recession can cause hardship, he points out that economic growth can cause hardship as well. For example, the increase in sales of jet skis would count as economic growth, but they would also cause hardships such as water pollution and noise pollution.[26]

Monbiot purchased a Renault Clio (diesel) after moving to a small town in mid-Wales in 2007, leading to charges of hypocrisy.[27] Similarly he has also travelled through Canada and the United States, campaigning on climate change and promoting his book. He contends that this travel was justifiable as it sought to boost the case for much greater carbon cuts there.[28][29]"

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

This dude is a carbon taxer, not an independent scientist.Nowhere on his wiki is there any reference to him being a scientist, only a political activist/ environmentalist/shill.

He seems less qualified to make these statements than, Chris Busby, Arnie Gundersen,and Helen Caldicot. The BRAWM team has attacked each of these sources stating that they (BRAWM) have no agenda just pure science. But for some reason these "scientists" have linked to this unscientific article. BTW, this article was posted one week after the earthquake before any meltdowns or serious leaks were admitted the official word is a lot more serious now than it was on March 21.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Caldicott
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Gundersen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Busby