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UN MILLENNIUM GOALS FLUNK REALITY CHECK, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

On the10th birthday of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, officials are lamenting that the world has made little progress in meeting them. No one should be surprised.

Goal # 1 is to cut greenhouse emissions by 50 percent. The UN says this clearly within reach if there’s the “political will.” “Economic death-wish” would be a better term. The UN wants us to give up 85 percent of our energy system, and use expensive, erratic solar and wind that would do little to reduce greenhouse emissions. Continue reading

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WILL OBAMA LEAVE OUR CHILDREN POWERLESS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY AND ALEX A. AVERY

President Obama just killed the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility—and with it any realistic chance of actually slashing U.S. carbon emissions without massive consumer costs. Instead of more nuclear energy, he’s putting our energy future in the shaky basket … Continue reading

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Will Nuclear and Biotech Save Us From Global Warming?

By:  Dennis T. Avery   Nuclear power and genetically engineered rice are set to help rescue the world from global warming. This isn’t really what anti-tech activists had in mind when they launched the campaign against fossil fuels, hoping to … Continue reading

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