SIGN OUR PETITION : Improve the Energiewende! Let clean nuclear, hydro, wind and solar work in unity towards 100% clean! We are sick and tired of the self-defeating bickering within the Climate Movement! By opposing other types of clean energy, we are shooting ourselves in the foot and allowing fossil [...]
Enough with "renewables!" By Valerie Gardner Cross-Posted with permission from Atomic Insights. The American Nuclear Society posted an article entitled How a nuclear victory at COP27 started with a teen and a text reporting on the wonderful story of Ia Aanstoot. This is the 17-year old [...]
Political Candidate Climate Positions This Airtable has been pre-sorted to group candidates by State and Office Sought. Airtable allows you to scroll across to see all columns. It also lets you reset the width of the displayed rows, to sort, filter, group, ungroup or copy the candidates' answers. Learn [...]
Renewables + Nuclear: Partners in Decarbonization (The following analysis is available for use for any purpose with attribution to the Climate Coalition.) (Click to download a PDF of this information.) “Nuclear or Renewables” is a false dichotomy when 83.1% of the world’s primary energy [...]
February 2021 Over 2020 and 2021, New York prematurely shuttered the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, NY. The two reactors at Indian Point had been safely providing 12% of New York's electricity. This one plant generated over one fifth of all carbon-free generation statewide — 2.5x [...]
NOAA's Climate Dashboard at Climate.gov All Indicators Have Gotten A LOT Worse For the past four years, the Trump Administration has tied the hands of the scientific community and disavowed any interest in addressing climate. He and his lackeys removed references to "climate" [...]
Introduction The new Biden Administration has an unbelievably dire situation that it inherits in late January when the new Administration takes office. American is experiencing the worst pandemic in a century, which has already killed more than a third of a million people and forced the closure [...]
NYISO's Mischaractization of Key Information The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) releases an annual state of the grid and markets report called Power Trends. According to NYISO CEO, Robert Fernandez, this report "provides the facts and analysis necessary to understand the many factors shaping New York’s complex electric system." In [...]
“Planet of the Humans:” Humanity’s Epitaph, or an Incomplete Tale? The recent documentary release by Michael Moore, Planet of the Humans, comes down hard on renewable energy, much to the dismay of that industry and of many environmentalists and “green” energy supporters. The film portrays renewables as failing miserably [...]
Should Nuclear Power Qualify As a Renewable Source? According to Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, yes it should. In a post entitled, “Bill introduced to allow nuclear power to qualify as a renewable energy source," produced by the staff of the Central Coast CBS Channel 6 affiliate, KSBY, we learn that new California [...]
It's Time to Embrace Nuclear Energy A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow, by Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist, depicts two different paths of emission-free energy use: Germany and Sweden. The contrasting stories have Sweden on one side. The Swedish has [...]
MMM The Hidden, Dirty side of Renewables Renewable energy has managed to benefit in popularity with a virtually unblemished brand. Through careful marketing efforts, consumers only see shiny, gleaming images of sparkling solar panels and snow white wind turbines on sunny days. We never get exposed to the hidden [...]
