Dr. James E. Hansen was in Utah this week for a special event where he detailed the pitfalls and mistakes made by the United States, and other countries around the globe, to get serious on cooling down the atmosphere.
was in Utah Tuesday for a special event hosted by The Nature Conservancy and the Natural History Museum of Utah, where he detailed the pitfalls and mistakes made by the United States, and other countries around the globe, to get serious on cooling down the atmosphere.
Just fixing the price of drugs is held up by pharmaceutical companies due to special interest money, and like climate change, any effective progress is held hostage by the dollar, he said.Hansen said he has met with high ranking officials from multiple administrations over the years, scratching his head over the seismic shift from hope for change to a nosedive landing in the universe of impossibility because of votes — again ruled by special interest groups with big pockets.
He said the United States may have cut carbon emissions more than any other country in the world, but that ignores the harsh reality of the country's cumulative emissions over the years. China may lead the world in its emissions now, but the United States has had a long love affair with fossil fuel pollution."I have been advocating for close to 20 years for a policy called fee and dividend. It makes the price of fossil fuels honest.
"And when we met with the leader of one of the biggest organizations, we found out the reason is they are getting a lot of contributions, which they would lose if they change their position on nuclear power.""And so what we've got is these so-called environmental organizations who are in many ways our worst enemy for the environment and our young people. We just have to overcome that.
Hansen actually criticized the International Panel on Climate Change with its thousands page of documents in a report that buried the fact that new nuclear energy reactors have the smallest geographic footprint of power energy sources, but it disallowed Germany to use nuclear energy as a qualifying clean energy source.
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