> As of now, the impression I am left with is that the people making these dire warnings think climate change is less dangerous than new generation nuclear powe

> As of now, the impression I am left with is that the people making these dire warnings think climate change is less dangerous than new generation nuclear power plants, which aren’t particularly dangerous all things considered. Are you sure the nuclear-related danger being weighed against climate change isn't the danger of relying on nuclear plants to reduce emissions? Because unless things change unrealistically faat, they aren't going to be able to do much in terms of keeping warming <2 °C. It isn't the environmental left's fault that the economics of building a nuclear project are absolutely terrible. I'd also point out there are large parts of the left that are ambivalent or pro nuclear, and finally that the people providing the data and climate projections (i.e., climate scientists) are not typically environmental activists. Even if they were, it is probably a 'tu quoque' sort of logical fallacy to suggest bad ideas about policy response have bearing on the actual projections they produce.