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The ‘nuclear renaissance’ envisioned a decade ago has stalled to the point of near fantasy. While there are Chinese programs that keep open the promise of ‘traditional’ large nuclear power plant projects, constructing such plants does not seem viable in current economic and energy market conditions. With (relatively) rapid changes in electricity markets (efficiency driving […]

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At least some more reporters and at least some polling organizations are looking out their windows, paying attention to wildfires in California and heat waves in Australia and floods in …, and starting to address climate change. Incredibly political journalists have started to ask Republicans regularly about climate change in the year two thousand eighteen […]

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While the pace is picking up, it is a simple truth that too few U.S. politicians speak to their constituents about climate change in meaningful ways. Thus, to start with, a mark of appreciation for politicians who do make the effort to speak to their constituents to educate them and seek to mobilize them to […]

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Paris is burning and the Wall Street Journal editorial page is gleeful in its misrepresentation of the Gilet Jaune (Yellow Vest) flames. Along with so many others in the fossil-foolish climate-science denial cabal, the WSJ editorial page is asserting that the flames are about rejecting efforts to address climate change. It is all about, for the […]

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You don’t have to be that old to remember when fishing in Virginia meant searching for a body of water rod and reel in hand. This is changing as, with sea level rise, streets are increasingly flooded with ‘moon tides’ or in storm events where it didn’t occur (or less frequently) in the past. A […]

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