Friday, June 14, 2013

An article on climate and nuclear energy



This article is about several different issues in the current climate change discussion, but I of course like one of the things that it says.

Who Is Fooling Who When It Comes to Climate Change

"With international climate negotiations working toward some form of agreement in 2015 that would only come into effect at the end of the decade, the world is “drifting off track,” in the words of IEA executive director Marina van der Hoeven at the press conference releasing the analysis. “But the problem is not going away.” Instead of dithering for a decade and paying for phantom emission reductions, the kinds of emissions declines seen in the U.S. must be repeated the world over. And that will take everything from CO2 capture and storage in Europe to more nuclear power in China, as well as the new plan to phase out HFCs. The rest is hot air from a bunch of flimflam artists."
 Thank you, David Biello, for pointing that out.




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