Comments on: “Few things threaten America’s future prosperity more than climate change.”

By: climatehawk1

climatehawk1 — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 02:16:07 +0000

And here you are, 25 years after Hansen’s testimony, still spreading BS instead of doing something constructive to deal with this massive problem that affects all of us. Pathetic.

By: Christopher Winter

Christopher Winter — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:40:12 +0000

Of course you would. Why don’t you tell us what schedule of change you would find acceptable?

Very few participants in the fossil-fuel industries you represent (even if there’s no formal relationship) talk about any sort of phaseout of their plants. Instead, what I see is any suggestion of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, on any time frame, being derided as a demand to stop fossil-fuel use immediately or in a short time, thus derailing the economy.

What’s the lifetime of a coal-fired power plant — forty years? Climate change was identified as a potential problem in 1965. Absent steady opposition, we might have begun replacing aging plants with cleaner energy around the end of the twentieth century.

But the U.S. had no coherent energy policy for most of that time, which suited industry just fine, as it let them keep relying on the cheapest sources of energy.

By: Dave X

Dave X — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:18:46 +0000

@Tom Harris: Tell it to the American Petroleum Institute.

By: Tom Harris

Tom Harris — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:48:47 +0000

I would retitle this post:

“Few things threaten America’s future prosperity more than attempts to quickly change our energy sources in a vain hope of controlling global change.”