Interviews With Dr. James Hansen, Nasa And Dr. Hermann Scheer,
World Council For Renewable Energy And Member Of The German Parliament
Dr. James Hansen is one of the few climate scientists who has consistently warned that the impact that humans have on the climate is bringing about changes that are faster than we ever believed and maybe irreversible if action is not taken now. Hansen is Director of the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, a division of the Goddard Space Flight Center. <http://www.giss.nasa.gov/> Since the late 1970s, he has worked on studies and computer simulations of the Earth’s climate.
Hansen has run afoul of government censors since the 1980s when he was asked to testify before Congress. He found that the record of his testimony had been re-written. His testimony to Vice President Cheney and other cabinet members in 2001 was ignored. In early 2006 officials at NASA headquarters ordered the public affairs staff to review Hansen’s coming lectures, papers, postings on the Goddard Web site and requests for interviews from journalists.
I interviewed Hansen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen> after his lecture at the December 2006 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
Dr. Hermann Scheer
A large industrialized country already gets 10% of their electricity from renewable sources. And if the present rate of conversion is maintained, this country will have phased out nuclear and fossil fuels within the next 50 years. And this country, Germany, is not even blessed with abundant wind or sun. Germany, for 15 years now, has shown the determinations to move away from centralized to decentralized power, from commercial to non-commercial energy production, and to come up with solutions to climate change, peak oil and the dangers of nuclear power. <http://www.german-renewable-energy.com/Renewables/Navigation/Englisch/root.html>
At the root of these developments is the German Renewable Energy Act, the EEG. It started as a one page act passed by the German parliament in 1990. It was simple and based on three concepts: Free access to the grid to all producers, the obligation for utilities to purchase, and guaranteed fixed prices for each producer in accordance with their cost of production and state of technology. The lead author of the Renewable Energy Act is Dr. Hermann Scheer, chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy, now serving his 6th term as elected member of the German Parliament.
I interviewed Scheer <http://www.hermannscheer.de/en/>on February 16 in the noisy courtyard of his hotel in Palo Alto, CA.
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