Climate change and nuclear power.(V. Energy: Technology and Sources of Power)

From: Social Research | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Gottfried, Kurt | Copyright information

CLIMATE SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY

SURELY IT IS EVIDENT THAT SCIENCE--AND RATIONAL THOUGHT IN general--has had little influence on the federal government's energy policy recently. That had better change fast, because it is clear that what climate science has been telling us for many years is basically correct. It is climate change and the growing wealth of billions of erstwhile poor that will be the dominant political factors of this century. Many troubling features of gl...

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