Politics and Culture

Does Joseph Romm have a fever? He criticizes Republicans for such "exagerations" as:

"Nobody in their right mind" believes we can get half our power from wind and solar or drive a "fleet of golf carts."

and

"Nobody in their right mind" believes we can get half our power from wind and solar or drive a "fleet of golf carts."

then goes on to say:

It's a terrifying thought. If the science of the last few years and the painful reality of a changing climate haven't persuaded the conservative movement of the dire nature of human-caused global warming, I can't imagine what chain of catastrophes would. We've already had record-breaking droughts, heat waves, wildfires, deluges, super storms and flooding at home and abroad -- just as climate science predicted. And we've had far more loss of ice from Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic Sea than anyone expected...

...If I were writing climate legislation, I would leave transportation out of the cap and trade system. Why legislate what is inevitable anyway? The price of petroleum, gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel are going to soar in the coming years because we haven't had intelligent energy policy for decades. Let our previous stupidity and myopia drive the price higher for the foreseeable future.

Again, is he nuts? If high prices are hurting the economy now, what will letting prices "soar" do? His feeling that high prices would make a good and just punishment for our negligence is scary.

He's worried about global warming and is willing to hurt our economy to do it. Yet, does he say anything about the one energy source that would do the most to limit carbon emissions, nuclear? No.