“On Feb. 20, the Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump plans to set up a Presidential Committee on Climate Security, to be headed by Dr. William Happer, a Professor of Physics at Princeton University. This committee would be liberated to do the unthinkable: To engage in an open, public discussion of whether human emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere can cause significant and possibly irreparable harm to present and future generations, and to the Earth itself (whatever that might be taken to mean).
“What is there to fear from an open, public review by a government committee of the available evidence? Is it a sin to question the perceived status quo? If the science is so certain, why the fear about subjecting it to reasoned scrutiny?
“Is there something we are not supposed to find out?”
From: Is Climate Change Truly an Existential Threat? Allow Science, not Hysteria, To Decide
A Note To Readers
The lead quotation is from a short item you will find accompanied by two more related to the topic of climate change in the section below under the title: A Real Debate on Climate Change– Off With the Gloves. The President plans to set up a Presidential Committee on Climate Security to create such.
Also In This Week’s Report
To begin, will this rain and snow ever stop? I am sure it will, but it has been unusual. The snowpack doubled in February and we have had 20 atmospheric rivers since the first of the year. All the reservoirs are full; drought has disappeared from the state; there is flooding, but not catastrophic.
The Oroville Dam Update reports that the new spillway is ready to go.
While the southwest has, at least in some areas, lots of precipitation, mountain snow in the Rockies still is not enough to end the Colorado River drought.
While it is still officially an ongoing project, I do believe the the California High-Speed Rail Project is doomed. Reported in this section are two articles that underline that evaluation.
Michael Shellenberger, a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment,” published a new article last week on why nuclear power and not renewables can save the planet.
Under the heading, More on Nuclear, are reports of a NASA nuclear rocket and a go ahead on the Fast-Neutron Test Reactor.
The Feature this week is a rerun: It Shall be NAWAPA That Will Provide Water to the Southwest. Since it was first printed here several weeks ago, to ensure continuity for the series, Part I runs again this week, to be followed by subsequent parts over the next several weeks.
