The best time to plan(t) a nuclear facility
Olkiluoto 3, the long-awaited Finish EPR nuclear power plant, started producing electricity on March 12th. It will be commencing with a phase of testing its power production and so will
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Anti-Nuclear Chickens Coming Home to Roost
Ted Nordhaus is a highly respected expert who, as executive director of the Breakthrough Institute, has been on the bleeding edge of those pushing more effective solutions to our energy
Earth’s health at worst levels on record
Sarah Kaplan’s review on the findings released by the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in their report “State of the Climate in 2020,” as described in a Washington Post
FT editors urge nuclear adoption to avert ‘hell on earth’
Anyone who read the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment’s Working Group 1 report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, found it very disturbing. The editors of the Financial Times editors used
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IPCC’s Landmark Report: Climate Change is Well Underway
Climate Change is well underway and many of the physical changes observed globally have baked in forces that will create increasingly worsening conditions for decades or centuries to come. This
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Severe climate impacts coming sooner than expected
AFP, a news and fact checking organization, broke a story based upon having reviewed a 4,000 page draft of an IPCC report that is being updated by thousands of IPCC
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Examining Anti-Nuclear Bullshit
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
2020 Set Records for US Climate Mayhem
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported a total of 22 major disasters, defined as each causing at least $1 billion in damage, swept the US last year, up
2019 CO2 Emissions Break Records
Scientific American reported that global carbon emissions will hit an all-time high in 2019, eclipsing the record set in 2018. According to a report from the Global Carbon Project, an
Nuclear power paves the only viable path forward on climate change
James Hansen, Kerry Emanuel, Ken Caldeira and Tom Wigley co-authored an article entitled Nuclear power paves the only viable path forward on climate change, that was published by The Guardian
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