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Scientific American (December 2005)
Coauthors: William H. Hannum and George S. Stanford
Reprinted in Oil and the Future of Energy by The Editors of Scientific American Magazine (The Lyons Press, 2007), p. 98.
Fast-neutron reactors could extract much more energy from recycled nuclear fuel, minimize the risks of weapons proliferation and markedly reduce the time nuclear waste must be isolated. (PDF)
This Critique builds on A Global Warming Primer. Like the Primer, its purpose is to help the reader determine whether our understanding of the earth’s climate is adequate to predict the long-term effects of carbon dioxide emissions from the continued burning of fossil fuels, to permit informed public policy decisions. This is a limited critique, looking only at a few topics covered in the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The purpose of this primer is to help the reader determine whether our understanding of the earth’s climate is adequate to predict the long term effects of carbon dioxide released as a result of the continued burning of fossil fuels.