Tuesday, February 05, 2013

What scandal? On Yahoo Finance, FakeGate "hydroclimatologist" Peter Gleick expounds at great length about all the expensive things we allegedly need to do to prevent CO2-induced bad weather

Renewable Energy, Climate Change, and the Difficulty of Major Transitions | The Exchange - Yahoo! Finance
As President Obama begins his second term, there is a growing realization of the need, both in the United States and globally, to shift our energy system from a reliance on fossil fuels toward renewable sources of energy. This transition has been a long time coming, and it will take a long time to complete, but it is both inevitable and necessary if we are to have any chance of reducing the likelihood of disastrous global climate change.
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Some renewable energy technologies are already economically competitive with traditional fossil fuel or nuclear systems.
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Dr. Peter Gleick is President of the Pacific Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan think tank in Oakland, California.

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