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Sharing message at #StrikeWithUs – We can use nuclear energy to address climate change

ByRod Adams

…me some questions that gave me the opportunity to briefly explain how the Rockefeller Foundation paid the NAS to teach the public to be afraid of radiation. A few other audience members thanked me for sharing and for teaching them something they did not know. Hard-headed Quakers I could tell, though, that there were a couple of people in the front row who were visibly discomforted. After I’d talked for about 5 minutes, one of them said, “Enough,…

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Bernie Sanders is listening to the wrong people about energy

ByRod Adams

…ndustry’s primary markets. Petroleum interests, including foundations like Rockefeller, Pew, and Mellon, began heavy investments in building antinuclear organizations like the Friends of the Earth and the Aspen Institute. They also infiltrated large, established conservation groups like the Sierra Club. This support from hydrocarbon interests for antinuclear opponents continues today. For example, Mark Z. Jacobson is a researcher employed by Stanf…

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Synergies between nuclear energy and coal

ByRod Adams

…uantities of combustible fuel; and titans like the Nobel brothers, John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler organized the industry into a force powerful enough to take on King Coal. Their product had some superior features, but coal was well established and sported some advantages of its own. It was more widely distributed around the world than petroleum, it was easier to stockpile, and it was cheaper to transport via bulk rail and ships. Economies a…

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Micheal Shellenberger tells Cal Poly audience how nuclear fear began. How will it end?

ByRod Adams

…predictions. Aside: There is another similarity in financial motives. The Rockefeller Foundation funded geneticists created doubts and uncertainty about health effects while using money from people interested in selling hydrocarbon fuel. A substantial segment of the geology profession and the activities of the Department of the Interior, the home of the Geological Survey, are directly involved with the ongoing search for hydrocarbon deposits and…

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Documentary evidence that fossil fuel industry knew–by 1948–that it faced prospect that atomic energy would make it obsolete

ByRod Adams

…ower to the people of the world. Hermann Muller had begun his decade-long, Rockefeller Foundation-funded speaking and publication tour. He was telling anyone who would listen, especially in the scientific and medical circles where he traveled, that radiation was dangerous and could harm genetic materials with even the lowest possible dose. He specifically denied that he was a “scare-monger,” but he was adamant about his belief that mankind needed…

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Asking Powerful Public Scientists Hard Questions

ByRod Adams

…fects of Atomic Radiation (BEAR) study was chaired by Warren Weaver of the Rockefeller Foundation. That is one more instance of oily fingerprints related to actions against nuclear energy. End Aside. During the question and answer session that followed the three talks in a row, I chose to encourage critical thinking about von Hippel’s talk instead of Macfarlane’s. Adams: I’m Rod Adams. Dr. von Hippel you mentioned the success of the fallout progra…

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Cheap, emission-free way to boil water

ByRod Adams

…ere were additional funds from organizations like the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Rockefeller Fund, and numerous other foundations whose money came directly from oil and gas-related enterprises. It has always puzzled me to figure out why antinuclear power activism started and grew in the late 1960s, a quarter century AFTER the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For the first 25 years, people were…

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Saving the Environment from Environmentalism

ByGuest Author

…he information you shared about the senior program officer at the Winthrop Rockefeller foundation interesting, I’d like to point out that my efforts to expose the Rockefeller — and other hydrocarbon interests — connection to the nuclear fear campaign is mostly about actions that happened several years before I was born up through the time when I graduated from college. It was a far different time and place, but it had long lasting effects. There…

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Science has falsified the “no safe dose” hypothesis about radiation. Now what?

ByRod Adams

…work of these Committees and various divisions? Your editorializing on the Rockefellers, and mischaracterizing of Muller, is speculative and distracting to a more thoughtful investigation of these questions (and one more likely to have a deciding impact on informing the work of independent science review committees and their conclusions). Quality makes more of an impact than quantity, I would suggest, and it appears that Calabrese is going for qua…

Tragic day in South Carolina as 5,000 people lose their jobs at VC Summer

ByRod Adams

…several Rockefeller Foundation grants and served as a paid advisor to the Rockefeller family, especially to Nelson, the most politically active of the five brothers who inherited their oil-derived wealth from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Rod Adams @EP You’re probably right. (I was being a little flippant.) As a resident of the Blue Ridge foothills, I often think about the benefits of building nuclear facilities near my home. Not only would that help…

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The Godzilla Movie and the Parallel with Fukushima

ByGuest Author

…iveness and problem-solving result in someone like a James Watt, a John D. Rockefeller (the first) or the Wright brothers creating products, tools, or business models that lead to a whole new society. The society that I’d rather live in is one that not only provides educational and craft training opportunities, but encourages them. It would be one that celebrates star students, engineers, teachers, mechanics, welders, carpenters, and scientists wi…

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Shell Oil and Gas Company’s Perspective on Energy Future

ByRod Adams

…a great deal of push from foundations like the Rockefeller Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Aspen Institute. Every one of those organizations owed virtually all of its funding to petroleum wealth. Friends of the Earth was started by David Brower in 1969 after he lost an internal struggle to make the Sierra Club more antinuclear. The first check that organization received — for $200,000 –came from Robert A…

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