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Bad science and bad ethics in Peter Gleick’s Review of “Apocalypse Never” at Yale Climate Connections

Environmental Progress

He argues that I construct strawmen, promote nuclear energy above other energies, and engage in ad hominem (personal) attacks. The land in Ireland is infinitely more peopled than in England,” Malthus famously wrote, “and to give full effect to the natural resources of the country, a great part of the population should be swept from the soil.”

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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

Energy Information Administration ("EIA") estimates renewables will be a larger source of electricity than natural gas in the United States by 2050. In that same time, EIA projects renewable electricity will rise from 28 percent to 50 percent of global generation. [6] 30] By contrast, today’s energy system requires just 0.5

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. . When the years of planning and execution are completed, such projects are typically very successful. .