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• 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 course of action [toward carbon emission reduction goals] no matter what happens in Copenhagen. But we will all be stronger and safer and more secure if we act together. That is why it is in our mutual interest to achieve a global accord in which we agree to take certain... Posted Dec 18 2009, 03:47 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: CO2 Emissions, obama, copenhagen, co2, nuclear blogs, cop15, denmark

• 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 G77, a group of 134 mostly developing countries, walked out of the conference. Since then, a good many of his members followed suit : African countries have refused to continue negotiations unless talks on a second commitment period to the Kyoto Protocol agreement... Posted Dec 14 2009, 04:55 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: copenhagen, co2, cop15, denmark, global warming, talks, cliamate change

• 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 points as strongly as possible. If you follow anything day-to-day – like, say, the health care bill – you know that up can become down very quickly and then back to up just as quickly. (Soap operas, speaking of melodrama, rest on this principle, but even they have a... Posted Dec 11 2009, 02:28 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: NEI, opinion, perspective, copenhagen, co2, cop15, denmark

• Amory Lovins vs. Stewart Brand - Part Three (The “Portfolio Myth”)

  The third part of our series that debunks Amory Lovins’ study which criticizes Stewart Brand’s nuclear chapter discusses the need for all emission-free technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The “portfolio myth” On page 82, Brand states that : climate change is so serious a matter, we have to do everything simultaneously to head it off as much as we can . Stewart Brand backs up his statement... Posted Nov 12 2009, 11:45 AM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: opinion, emissions, climate, Climate Change, stewart brand, co2, warming

• Beaming Through Grime

  We have to give our friends in the coal industry credit – it has had a pretty good showing in the climate change bill, even if the goal of the bill builds on the hope that carbon capture and sequestration proves itself, and it survived the widespread attention given to the clean coal carolers , a well-intended Flash animation that was bound to bring down criticism. However, here’s the thing: coal miners... Posted Nov 06 2009, 01:20 PM by NEI Nuclear Notes Filed under: Coal, outreach, Climate Change, public relations, indiisustry, clean coal, co2