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How should you respond to debate opponents who “make things up”?

April 30, 2012 By Rod Adams

My friends who advocate for increased beneficial use of nuclear energy often engage in discussions about techniques for responding to critics who frequently make up their arguments as the go along. We were taught in school that it is impolite and ineffective to engage in “ad hominem” attacks during a debate and to keep our […]

Filed Under: Climate change

Month long quest to convince a fossil fuel advocate to believe climate change

April 27, 2012 By Rod Adams

I just spent a fascinating couple of hours watching an ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company) documentary titled I Can Change Your Mind About..Climate. Aside: Before that turns you off by making you think that the documentary lasts for hours, please understand that it can take me a long time to watch a show while preparing a […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Coal, Fossil fuel competition

Integrated ecological modeling – positive results require healthy dose of nuclear fission

April 26, 2012 By Rod Adams

U of Wisconsin Chart Comparing Life Cycle Emissions by Fuel Source

Barry Brook and Cory Bradshaw are the co-directors of the Global Ecology Lab. In less than three minutes, they provide an understandable picture of the lab’s mission and it’s scientific challenges. In the above video, Dr. Brook and Dr. Bradshaw explain the complexity of the systems they model along with the importance of using accurate […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Fossil fuel competition

Lord Monckton advocates purchasing an entire news media infrastructure

February 10, 2012 By Rod Adams

George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) provided a link to the following video in a tweet about the growing influence of Australian mining interests on the news media. Lord Monckton is one of the world’s most famous, and well paid, climate change deniers.

Filed Under: Climate change, Fossil fuel competition

Challenging Master Resource’s implication that Enron was the only rent seeking manipulator

November 25, 2011 By Rod Adams

The people who operate Master Resource believe to the bottom of their pocketbooks that hydrocarbons are THE prime energy product. They often attempt to disguise their assumption; here is their explanation of the etymology of their chosen blog title: MasterResource is a blog dedicated to analysis and commentary about energy markets and public policy. Precisely […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Fossil fuel competition

Doubt – confusion leads to inaction and benefits status quo

September 23, 2011 By Rod Adams

When there is an enormous revenue stream at stake, actions taken to delay making any changes can produce a good return on investment. There is no doubt in my mind that people interested in prolonging fossil fuel dominance over the world economy have taken action to insert doubt in the public consciousness about the hazard […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Fossil fuel competition, Health Effects

Why is Al Jazeera worried that Asia is becoming “addicted” to nuclear energy?

September 20, 2011 By Rod Adams 11 Comments

A regular Atomic Insights reader sent me a link to a program produced by Al Jazeera English titled 101 East – Asia’s nuclear addiction that offers an interesting, if somewhat disturbing, point of view about nuclear energy development. About half of the program describes an effort to site a nuclear power plant in Indonesia and […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Climate change, Fossil fuel competition

Soft hearts should not be accompanied by soft heads

August 30, 2011 By Rod Adams 13 Comments

Yesterday, Vermont Governor Peter Shumulin appeared on Democracy Now to talk about the effect of Hurricane Irene on his Green Mountain State. Twice in the interview, he used the words irrational, but throughout the interview he and his interviewer were remarkably illogical. Though many parts of his state were being washed away by raging floods […]

Filed Under: Antinuclear activist, Climate change, Politics of Nuclear Energy, Wind energy

Decarbonise South Australia and Brave New Climate visit The Atomic Show

August 13, 2011 By Rod Adams 36 Comments

Coal Miners against nuclear power

On August 13, 2011, I braved the 13.5 hour time difference between Adelaide, South Australia and Lynchburg, VA to record an interview with Ben Heard, the force behind Decarbonise SA and Dr. Barry Brook, the well respected climate scientist who blogs at Brave New Climate. Aside: I used the phrase “braved the time difference” because […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Fossil fuel competition

False media balance – radiation health risks contrasted against climate change

July 28, 2011 By Rod Adams

An Atomic Insights reader pointed me to Joe Romm’s recent post titled False Balance Exposed: BBC Gives Too Much Weight to Fringe Views on Climate Change, Independent Review Finds. Duh. In that post, Joe discusses how an outside reviewer has determined that the BBCs strong desire to show impartiality can result in providing poor information […]

Filed Under: Climate change, Health Effects, LNT

Another blogger for nuclear energy – Decarbonise SA

July 8, 2011 By Rod Adams

I have just spent a pleasant hour perusing a fascinating site called Decarbonise SA (where SA = South Australia). Ben Heard, an Australian who operates a consultancy named ThinkClimate Consulting is the force behind the site. He is a man on a mission – to move South Australia’s electric power system to zero carbon dioxide […]

Filed Under: Another Blogger for Nuclear Energy, Climate change, Fossil fuel competition

“Green Nukes” – Important climate change mitigation tools

July 5, 2011 By Rod Adams 87 Comments

Adam Curry interviewed Curt Stager, the author of Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth for his Big Book Show. During the interview, Curry and Stager spent several minutes discussing the potential for “green nukes” to be an important climate change mitigation tool. Aside: Adam Curry interviewed me four years ago about […]

Filed Under: Climate change Tagged With: climate mitigation, CO2

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