Snowmageddon
Elizabeth A. SterlingFriday marked the first day back to work for the federal government after four and a half days of unplanned leave, allowing the capital's workers to begin their slow thaw. The...
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Paul J. SaundersPresident Barack Obama's announcement that his administration would provide $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to build two nuclear reactors at an existing plant in Georgia is both...
View ArticleThe Green in the Machine
David G. VictorAlun Anderson, After the Ice: Life, Death and Geopolitics in the New Arctic (New York: Smithsonian, 2009), 304 pp., $26.99.Richard Ellis, On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar...
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Deciding to Save the Planet
Paul R. PillarMore is getting written about a subject that as recently as a few years ago was as far away from mainstream thinking as, and barely more respectable than, the fantasies of science...
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The Sources of Public Delusion
Paul R. PillarJohn Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago was in town this week to talk about his splendid new bookWhy Leaders Lie. One of his findings is that more lying, and more damage from lying,...
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Europe Hides Immigration Fears behind Climate Change
Vaughan C. TurekianPaul J. SaundersThe Arab Spring—and the flow of refugees across the Mediterranean it has produced—has Europeans worried. Viewing this anxiety, one must wonder if the widespread and...
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Durban and the Climate-Change Conundrum
John QuigginNegotiators in the latest round of climate-change talks at Durban have set expectations so low that they can hardly fail to exceed them. The best hope is a second agreement under the Kyoto...
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Why Canada Kissed Kyoto Good-bye
Tom VelkWhen Canadian environment minister Peter Kent announced that Canada was withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol at the COP-17 Climate Change conference in Johannesburg earlier this month, he...
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The End of the Nuclear Renaissance
John QuigginIn political terms, the issues of climate change and energy took a back seat for most of 2011. There was some modest progress at the Durban conference in December. Moreover, having given up...
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American Interests in Antarctica
Frank KlotzA hundred years ago today, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and four companions reached the South Pole. It was a bittersweet moment. For seventy-eight days, they had man-hauled their...
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Nuclear Power's Uncertain Future
Charles D. Ferguson“I’m too old,” exclaimed T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil, natural-gas, and wind energy investor, when I asked him in 2009 if he would invest in nuclear power. The vigorous...
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Obama: Right on Keystone for the Wrong Reasons
Jay ZawatskyIn January, pandering to the guardians of Gaia like Daryl Hannah and Robert Redford, President Obama blocked the Keystone XL Pipeline. That petroleum pipeline would have carried Canadian...
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Don't Fear Fracking
John QuigginAs the United States struggles to respond to rising energy costs and the challenge of climate change, rapid growth in new natural-gas sources has upended the debate on energy policy. The...
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Egypt's Demographic and Environmental Time Bombs
Geoffrey KempIt may take many months for Egyptians to learn whether the Muslim Brotherhood and its newly elected President Mohamed Morsi have achieved meaningful power or whether the Egyptian Army...
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Only a New Bloc Can Save the Climate
Kevin Jianjun TuAfter the wearisome negotiations in Doha, the United Nations global climate talks are not leading to the necessary breakthrough.Constrained with an ongoing economic crisis in Europe and...
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Energy Politics vs. the Earth
John M. BroderThe Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's FutureMichael Levi, The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America’s Future (New York: Oxford...
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