climate change

Michael Mariotte, Executive Director of the Washington, D.C. based Nuclear Information Resource service ( http://www.nirs.org/ ), talks about the many reasons that the claim - made by such pundits as James Lovelock and Stewart Brand - that a crash buildout of a new generation of nuclear power plants is a rational and necessary response to global climate change is a dangerous fallacy.

Dr. Donald Aitken ( http://www.donaldaitkenassociates.com/ ), physicist, solar architect and former lead scientist at the Union of Concerned of Concerned Scientists, talks about his certainty that we have all the tools and knowhow to make the shift to renewable energy sources right now.

Award-winning journalisit and author Ross Gelbspan (http://www.heatisonline.org/ ) talks about the 'crisis=danger+opportunity' equasion in planetary politics. Without minimizing the 'danger' side of the equasion, he fleshes out in realistic terms the many 'Opportunity Factors' available and shares what keeps him going in the face of daunting odds.

Funny and informative. Huh.