The NYT reports on the growing number of environmentalists reconsidering the merits of nuclear power in the face of climate change. "It's not that something new and important and good had happened with nuclear, it's that something new and important and bad has happened with climate change," says Whole Earth catalog founder Stewart Brand (whose previous remarks on the subject I blogged here). Among others slowly reconsidering nuclear's merits, according to the story, are Fred Krupp of Environmental Defense, Jonathan Lash of the World Resources Institute, and Gus Speth of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Others hold out hope that modern civilization's energy needs can be met by wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy.