{"id":2109,"date":"2015-12-05T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2025-09-28T05:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:08:05","slug":"sciam-nuclear-power-must-make-a-comeback-for-climates-sake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"SciAm: &#8220;Nuclear Power Must Make a Comeback for Climate&#8217;s Sake&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Scientific America as they reprint an article from Climatewire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/nuclear-power-must-make-a-comeback-for-climate-s-sake\/?WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20151204\">&quot;Nuclear, especially next-generation nuclear, has tremendous potential to be part of the solution to climate change,&quot; Hansen said during a panel discussion yesterday. &quot;The dangers of fossil fuels are staring us in the face. So for us to say we won&#39;t use all the tools [such as nuclear energy] to solve the problem is crazy.&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He was joined by Tom Wigley, a climate scientist at the University of Adelaide; Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science; and Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Their stance clashes with those of environmental groups such as Greenpeace that advocate against nuclear energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Scientific America as they reprint an article from Climatewire. &quot;Nuclear, especially next-generation nuclear, has tremendous potential to be part of the solution to climate change,&quot; Hansen said during a panel discussion yesterday. &quot;The dangers of fossil fuels are staring us in the face. So for us to say we won&#39;t use all the tools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8105,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/8105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}