Apr 25, 2024 | Blog, Energy Transition Policy & Policymaking
Most plans to stabilize atmospheric carbon in time to avoid the worst effects of global warming rely heavily on rapid reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector. We have the proven technologies that would allow us to do so relatively...
Apr 20, 2024 | Blog, Framing and the Energy Transition Debate
There is an old axiom (sometimes attributed to Carl Sandburg) that trial attorneys know: “When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law.” The 1990s courtroom/family drama “Picket Fences” featured a...
Apr 15, 2024 | Blog, Journalism, Bias & Censored News
Let’s look at two April 2024 examples of misleading journalism. On April 12, 2024 the Daily Caller ran a piece entitled “Electricity Prices Have Risen Seven Times Faster Under Biden Than Trump.” It began with this: Electricity prices have experienced a significant...
Apr 1, 2024 | Blog, Partisanship, Elections and the Energy Transition
The transition to a much lower carbon energy system will (eventually) require congressional legislation. That implies a significant change in the positions of existing members of Congress and/or change in the composition of Congress. Both types of change depend, in...
