“In an unregulated market, Georgia Power’s profits would be linked to its performance. It is only through the PSC’s authorization that Georgia Power has posted such large profits for its shareholders at the expense of the Georgia ratepaying public.”
Defenders of consumer choice and free markets rarely pay attention to the technical criticisms of nuclear generation by the often hysterical opponents of nuclear power. Therefore, it is a pleasant surprise to see sensible reasoning used to oppose the spread of this cost-prohibitive, subsidized source of electrical generation.
In Georgia, the utility and its regulators have heard the charges shown below and ignored them, likely because the facts cited cannot be refuted.
Here, in its entirety, is pre-filed testimony by Nuclear Watch South in question-and-answer format.
DIRECT TESTIMONY AND EXHIBITS OF GLENN CARROLL ON BEHALF OF NUCLEAR WATCH SOUTH
Part I: INTRODUCTION
Please state your name, profession, and business location.…
Continue Reading“What has been noticeably absent so far in the ClimateGate discussion is a public reaffirmation by climate researchers of our basic research values: the rigors of the scientific method (including reproducibility), research integrity and ethics, open minds, and critical thinking. Under no circumstances should we ever sacrifice any of these values; the CRU emails, however, appear to violate them.”
This item at Judith Curry’s website caught my eye. She recounts the “crazy days of Thanksgiving 2009 when I spent all weekend writing my ‘Open Letter'” in the wake of Climategate.
Six years later, in the middle of COP 21, it is time to give voice to Curry’s contribution, which was reproduced by Andrew Revkin at Dot Earth at the time under the title, “A Climate Scientist Who Engages Skeptics” (November 27, 2009).…
Continue Reading“Many observers have speculated that the cooling [global] could be the beginning of a long and persistent trend in that direction—that is, an inevitable departure from an abnormally warm period in climatic history.”
– Paul and Anne Ehrlich and John Holdren. Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment (1977), p. 686.
“Predictions of future climate trends by Stephen Schneider and other leading climatologists, based on the prevailing knowledge of the atmosphere in the early 1970s, gave more weight to the potential problem of global cooling than it now appears to merit.”
– Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Betrayal of Science and Reason (Washington: Island Press, 1996), p. 34.
There was once talk of a coming Ice Age from John Holdren, Paul Ehrlich, and Steven Schneider. among others, before all got global warming religion.…
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