The Nuclear Option: Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, comes out in a Washington Post op-ed in favor of nuclear power.

He’s not the first leader of the green movement to do so—James Lovelock has been making the case for a decade or so—but this piece provides yet more evidence that the time is right for a resurgence of nuclear power. That has to happen, because weighed against fossil fuels and continued global warming nuclear is clearly the lesser of two evils. But it won’t happen without a massive public education campaign--and so far the industry doesn’t seem to be taking advantage of public concern about climate change to make its case more vocally.