A Nuclear Energy Binge to Combat Climate Change

Professor Peter Wadhams off ice This suggests an academic freak-out: Geo-engineering techniques such as whitening clouds by adding fine spr...

Another Environmentalist for Nuclear Energy

We've been talking a lot about Australia in recent weeks (click here and here ), where the debate over nuclear energy has been heating ...

Can California Survive Climate Change Without the Help of Nuclear Power?

California’s Environmental Protection Agency is required to prepare what are called “periodic science reports on the potential impacts of cl...

Five Minutes to Midnight

Each year I wait with anticipation to find out whether the groundhog will see his shadow and winter will continue, or if he won’t see his sh...

“Nuclear plants are too inflexible… ?”

A certain cognitive dissonance : Building new nuclear power stations will make it harder for the UK to switch to renewable energy, said...

The Rainfall Every Hundred Years

Earlier this year, the Fort Calhoun nuclear facility in Nebraska was surrounded by the Missouri River, which jumped its banks due to a stron...

Thermometers Ever Rising

Late last year, we made it clear that we were going to ignore Climategate, the release of emails from the University of East Anglia. Some i...

The American Power Act: Early Support

Although Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) decided not to co-sponsor the American Power Act – a protest against its spot on the Senate’s calenda...

No Snow for Skiing, The Greenest Aluminum

We’ve sometimes said that even if government locks up in its efforts to combat climate change that industry will do so – it can see what is...

James Lovelock, Where Nuclear Has No Place

This brought us up short: In Britain, environmentalist patron saint James Lovelock now tells the BBC he suspects climate scientists ha...

Back to Copenhagen

Last winter, we covered the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen with considerable and then diminishing enthusiasm. What had seemed...

The End of Cap-and-Trade

The New York Times sounds the death knell on cap-and-trade as a method for regulating carbon emissions: Mr. Obama dropped all mention ...

A Preview of Graham-Kerry-Lieberman

Some news about the climate change legislation being developed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-...

Oddities and Counterintuitive Snow Fall

This comment from President Barack Obama struck us as a little odd: He said Congress needs to pass a bill that includes Republican pr...

The Pope on COP15

In his role as Sovereign of Vatican City, the Pope gives a speech to ambassadors each year to indicate the positions the state holds on var...

Voices from Copenhagen: Obama and Jiabao

At the COP15 conference in Copenhagen, President Barack Obama did not seem very pleased: So America is going to continue on this cour...

Linking Electricity To Human Life

Paul Genoa, NEI’s Director of Policy Development, has posted to The National Journal’s Copenhagen Insider blog. This is the entire post, but...

COP15: Walk-outs, Protests, Madness

Well, we can’t say the Climate Change Conference has been dull. On Friday we noted that Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the negotiator for the...

COP15: A Draft Proposal, A Walk-Out, Detainment

On the fourth day of the COP15 conference, it entered what we might call its melodramatic phase, with various parties wanting to make point...

Framework for Climate Change and Energy Independence Legislation

A bipartisan trio of Senators presented a framework on climate change. The framework is focused on energy security and job creation and is ...