Ted Nordhaus bravely calls out the deceptive tactics used by anti-nuclear activists—some operating as academics with cover from similarly duplicitious “peer reviewers,” to promote what are ideologic viewpoints unsupported by
National Academy of Sciences member Kerry Emanuel of MIT felt compelled to explain his views on climate change, risk assessments and the debates rekindled by climate deniers and nuclear deniers
Continue readingApocalypse Maybe: Thoughts from MIT’s Kerry Emanuel
Part of the “What if?” series from the Economist exploring a wide array of alternative histories, this essay explores the question of how the world might look today if more
Democrats in the United States Senate and in the California Assembly have proposed legislation calling for a full transition to renewable energy. In doing so, they are relying on scholarly
Continue readingFisticuffs Over the Route to a Clean-Energy Future
Robert Bryce, a highly respected author and now film producer, who recently released the film “Juice: How Electricity Explains the World,” attempted to tackle the counter-intuitive phenomena that was being