NRCC: Secretary of Energy Is a ‘Radical Global Warming Activist’

Apparently the people of the NRCC are more qualified to determine Nobel Laureates in Physics than the Nobel Committee for Physics. Learn more about the process here:
http://nobelprize.org/nomination/physics/index….

Either the NRCC is really smart, or really stupid.

How does “I don't know” become “dismissed”?

“radical San Francisco ideologue”- now that's some quality (if trite) red meat.

These days, the NRCC isn't qualified to determine whether the sky is blue or the grass is green. When does noticing that Russia's permafrost is turning to soup and a Northwest Passage is about to become a navigable reality 'radical'? Ask a drowning polar bear or a Russian politician if the climate is changing. Ask anyone who lives in Switzerland if the alps are losing snowpack yearly. Ask Atlanta if rainfall has been sufficient to refill local aquifers each year. Etc etc etc.

You don't have to believe in 'global warming' to accept that things are changing in unpredictable ways, but trust the RNC ostriches to bury their heads in the sand in the hope that everything will somehow go away on its own.

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Yes I wholeheartedly agree global warming is happening and we would indeed be very foolish to stick our heads in the sand hoping that it would go away. That is exactly what some of these politicians are doing. Big money talks at least to them. Too bad or too late. I don't know if you believe in a God but all this will indeed happen. God help us for we have a lot of foolish people. The dangers of ice melting all over the world is happening right before our eyes at an alarming accelerating rate: in Greenland, Antarctica, and other places around the globe.How do we wake up before it really is too late? Thank you.

Answer: really stupid.

What's sad is that the NRCC seems to think that any action done on global warming is by definition bad for business. But one thing Chu has talked about a bit in the past is combined heat & power, or cogeneration, which really is the best way to be pro-planet and pro-economy at the same time because it cuts both greenhouse gas emissions AND energy costs.

Now to be fair, I'm not an unbiased observer: I'm associated with Recycled Energy Development, a Chicago-based company that does cogeneration and waste heat recovery — the idea being to make manufacturers as efficient as possible. But the reason I'm involved is the massive potential. EPA and DOE estimates suggest there's enough RECOVERABLE waste energy to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 20%. That's as much as if we took every passenger vehicle off the road. Meanwhile, costs would fall due to greater efficiency. We should do much more of this, whatever the NRCC says.

Miggs
How does cogeneration cut greenhouse gasses since the process burns carbon based fuel. I would appreciate a reply to reesepalley@aol.com

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