Here’s an article in “Think Progress” called “Mississippi realizes how to make a clean coal plant work: Run it on natural gas” in which the organization’s founder and editor, Joe Romm, writes, “After wasting $7.5 billion, the state realizes its coal-to-gas plant …
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Climate Change Solutions: What You Thought You Knew Is Obsolete
Here’s the legendary physicist/climate scientist Joe Romm delivering a talk whose title is the headline of this post, and here are a few quotes from the talk, along with my comments. “Climate change will have as much impact on you …
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A Few Data Points on Energy and the Environment from a True Master of the Subject
We all know the wonderful story of Lincoln’s speech at Gettysburg and its ‘opening act,” an incredibly brilliant and touching two-hour speech by Edward Everett, one of U.S. history’s greatest orators. Later, Everett wrote to Lincoln, expressing his admiration of …
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Proponents of Nuclear Science Shouldn’t Object to Objectivity
There are many interesting but sad elements to my involvement with the pro-nuclear online community of which I’m a part. For example, last night one guy asked the 95-member group in an effort to discredit the arguments of anti-nuke renewable …
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We’re Interested in Fuel Cell Vehicles — But Exactly Why?
Are you bemused by our new-found interest in fuel cell vehicles? I certainly am. What they offer both to the consumer and to the environment has no appeal. They cost a huge premium to buy — and to fuel. The …
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Shell's Drilling for Oil in the Arctic Presents Huge Environmental Dangers
Here’s a terrific 6-minute-long documentary that Joe Romm’s team at Climate Progress put together, presenting the environmental dangers associated with drilling for oil in the Arctic. Now that Shell is going to be leading the way, it may be good …
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Global Climate Change – Energy Policy's Science and Politics
Joe Romm’s ClimateProgress.org has done a wonderful job of presenting the evolving science and politics of global climate change, including this article published a few months ago, when one of the few remaining credible deniers jumped ship and got on …
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