July 9, 2013
Nuclear Meltdown at The Nation: Round Two
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Tweet For several centuries, Eli has been pointing out that he and Barry Bickmore agree on the coming threats from human driven climate change, but probably disagree on how to deal with it. Bunnies might call this the WG1/WG3 dichotomy. Mark Boslough , well he and Eli could probably agree that they disagree of WG3, but in both those cases, working from the same physical reality there is at least some possibility that something could be done in the end. Eli would say the same thing in the other direction about folk like Tenny Naumer or even Joe Romm, in the later case Eli is somewhat intermediate with Barry Brook on the other side, since nuclear and renewables complement each other.
Tweet Ray Pierrehumbert writes about President Obama’s speech in Slate One should be grateful for a president who is willing to stand up and declare—as President Obama did in his speech Tuesday announcing his long-awaited climate action plan —that global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions is a serious problem requiring serious measures, and that “We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.†After all, as presidents go, we could have done much worse . President Obama is working under serious constraints in the form of a completely uncooperative Congress, and insofar as there is no real substitute for congressional action , there are limits to what he can be expected to do
Tweet Just read their first paragraph, it’s actually kind of cheering: The role of renewable sources in the global power mix continues to increase.