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Re: Wanning Workshop + Beijing Charts + Year-End Comments

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wanning Workshop + Beijing Charts + Year-End Comments
>> http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2015/20151229_Sleepless.pdf
> 
> 
>> I returned Christmas Eve from a workshopa in Wanning, China and talks
>> at Peking University and Tsinghua University. The workshop was
>> conceived after a trip to China last year (cf. Sleepless in Ningbo)
>> to attend the Symposium on a New Type of Major Power Relationship at
>> invitation of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.
>> That symposium included trips to solar and windmill factories, but
>> nuclear power seemed to be taken off the table despite the
>> implausibility of phasing out coal use in China and India without the
>> help of nuclear power. Thus I contacted nuclear energy experts
>> Richard Lester (MIT) and Per Peterson (University of California at
>> Berkeley) and my Chinese friends and fellow climate scientists, Junji
>> Cao and Yunfeng Luo, with the aim of asking what role nuclear power
>> might play in addressing air pollution and climate change. Junji was
>> a marvelous workshop host, enlisting nuclear scientist Hongji Xu as a
>> co-organizer. We will prepare a report with recommendations in the
>> near future.
> 
>> China?s leaders have done a remarkable job in raising more people out
>> of poverty than any case in Earth?s history. Yet that progress is now
>> threatened by the twin scourges of air pollution and climate change.
>> Two of the days I was in Beijing were ?red alert? days, with air
>> pollution so bad that school was cancelled. Unlike my experience in
>> Ningbo, I avoided an asthma attack with the help of a good face mask
>> ? any sleeplessness was only the result of an 11-hour time zone
>> shift.
> 
>> A crucial requirement for cleaning up the air and environment is
>> abundant affordable electric power for all citizens, allowing
>> replacement of many polluting activities. Chart 1 here is Chart 44 of
>> my Tsinghua University presentation, which is available at Beijing
>> Charts. On the way to China I took part in a ?Scientific Reticence?
>> session at the American Geophysical Union meeting.
 
 
Not to worry, the Paris "agreement" fixes everything. 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Wanning Workshop + Beijing Charts + Year-End Comments Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-30 15:29 -0600
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