Excerpt from the PDF: The related (but not identical) terms “global warming” and “climate change” are both misleading—perhaps even dangerously so—and therefore should be replaced. I recommend “trendular atmospheric depatternization” as [...]
By: Niranjan Ramakrishnan Many countries are rethinking their nuclear plans post-Fukushima. Some are proceeding to draw down their nuclear power operations. According to an AP report, “Germany…turned decisively against nuclear [...]
By: Bill McKibben The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running [...]
By: Alton C. Thompson When I peer into the future now, as opposed to, e.g., 60 years ago, I see something rather different. Actually, that’s a lie, for I can’t [...]
By: Harvey Wasserman Japan’s one remaining operating reactor (of 54) may go dark tomorrow. Japan would be nuke-free for the first time in a half-century. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is [...]
By: Harvey Wasserman Small wonder the death knell of new US nukes may be upon us. Two reactors proposed for Florida will now, say its would-be builders, cost $24 billion [...]
By: Bill Henderson ‘Alarmists’ like me argue that climate change is now an emergency. A reasonable fear of what has come to be called ’ dangerous climate change’ combined with the brutal logic [...]
By: Bill Henderson Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May, NDP environment critic Megan Leslie and Liberal environmental critic Kirsty Duncan should join together in non-partisan, high road, big picture leadership [...]
On April 20, 2010, a reckless attitude towards the safety of the Gulf Coast by BP, as well as Transocean and Halliburton, caused a well to blow out 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. As the world watched in horror, underwater cameras showed a seemingly endless flow of oil – hundreds of millions of gallons – and a series of failed efforts to stop it, over a period of nearly three months. Two years later, that horror has not ended for many on the Gulf.
The future of nuclear power now hangs on a single decision by President Obama—and us. His Office of Management and Budget could cave to the unsustainable demands of reactor builders who cannot handle the standard terms of a loan agreement. Or he could defend basic financial procedures and stand up for the future of the American economy.
