What happened in the meeting? Nobody knows for sure – but in the wake of a one hour meeting between Al Gore and Donald Trump, Gore has promised an “unprecedented” surge in climate activism, to protect a renewable energy revolution which he also claims will “happen anyway”.
Al Gore: climate change threat leaves ‘no time to despair’ over Trump victory
Former vice-president expects backlash from environmentalists against Trump and hopes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will join fight.
The urgent threat of climate change means there is “no time to despair” over the election of Donald Trump, according to former vice-president Al Gore, who hopes that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will join an escalated climate campaign against the president-elect.
Gore told the Guardian he remained hopeful Trump would reverse some of his positions on climate change but predicted an unprecedented backlash from environmentalists over the next four years.
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Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, has pledged to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord, dismantle the Clean Power Plan, slash renewable energy funding and somehow prop up the ailing US coal industry.
His advisers have also advocated cutting climate research at Nasa and completely exiting the international climate effort.
Gore said such threats mean there will “likely be a huge upsurge in climate activism. I’m encouraged that there are groups that are digging in to work even harder. Those groups working in the courts are even more important now; those organizing on campuses are even more important now.
“My message would be that despair is just another form of denial. There is no time to despair. We don’t have time to lick our wounds, to hope for a different election outcome.
“We have to win this struggle and we will win it; the only question is how fast we win. But more damaged is baked into the climate system every day, so it’s a race against time.”
On Monday, Gore spent around an hour meeting with Trump and his daughter Ivanka, who reportedly plans to speak out on climate change despite her father’s skepticism of the issue.
“I had a lengthy and very productive session with the president-elect,” Gore said, after emerging from the meeting at Trump Tower in New York City.
“It was a sincere search for areas of common ground. I had a meeting beforehand with Ivanka Trump. The bulk of the time was with the president-elect, Donald Trump. I found it an extremely interesting conversation, and to be continued, and I’m just going to leave it at that.”
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“Regardless of what he does, a sustainable energy revolution is under way.”
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My guess is Trump wants to find a way to defuse climate opposition, but I don’t think there is any room to manoeuvre. Any serious concessions to the climate movement would be treated by many of Trump’s supporters as a sell-out. The entrenched positions are simply too polarized.
You don’t “drain the swamp” by hiring swamp critters.
The assertions of the “inevitability” of the renewable energy revolution juxtaposed with promises of “unprecedented” climate action are noteworthy. If the green revolution is so “inevitable”, why the need for a hysterical activist response should the Trump administration cut federal support?
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Al Gore is hopeful that Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton will join him in ” an escalated climate campaign ” against the President elect. These two spent the 2012 and 2016 elections barely mentioning climate change.
President Obama may have other plans including working on his golf handicap. Hilary might be more interested in hiking than joining Al Gore on podiums round the country.
I think Hillary has been and will remain very busy inspecting the bottom of every wine glass in Chapaqua.
And Obama is too politically savvy to associate publically with Gore.
“You don’t “drain the swamp” by hiring swamp critters.”
Hasn’t it dawned yet?
Trump says lots of things he doesn’t either mean or doesn’t follow through on.
Good look with that.
Trump has extremely limited power during the transition period. And yet, he appears to have already saved a token small number of high-profile jobs, exactly as he promised to do. Obama mocked him for it…
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Flashback: Obama Mocks Trump for Promising to Keep Carrier Plant in U.S.
https://news.grabien.com/story-flashback-obama-mocks-trump-promising-keep-carrier-plant-us
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I thought the word contract was an interesting choice for a businessman to use in an election campaign.
Have you ever known a politician that doesn’t ‘say lots of things they don’t mean’? I haven’t.
I guess we’ll have to wait to see if his ‘private’ position varies from his ‘public’ position.
Trump is no politician. In case you did not notice that is exactly why lots of us voted for him.
And I think Trump said exactly what he is going to do, and exactly what he thinks. Washington DC is a corrupt and stinking cesspool, a swamp of kleptocracy and cronyism. The people running the country have been pursuing insane policies, and wasting all our money, and getting nothing done.
I think you can take it to the bank the Trump means to do all of the things he said he was going to do in the campaign. All the major policy points anyway.
He is a person who was fed up with the way the country was being run, and the direction that we were heading, and decided to personally do something about it.
What remains to be seen is what the final details will be and what he can get through Congress, because he is not a dictator in spite of what his detractors want everyone to believe.
I wouldn’t spend five seconds listening to the people who have gotten everything wrong for the past year-and-a-half, told us Trump could never win, and now want to explain to those of us who got it right, all about how we were duped.
Prime example:
There will never be a carbon tax under a Govt. that I lead
Julia Gillard – ex Aust. Prime Minister
C’mon guys, cut Toneb a tiny bit of slack. After all, he’s still grief stricken from the death of his beloved Fidel.
“Trump says lots of things he doesn’t either mean or doesn’t follow through on.”
You hope. I think it is going to be you who is disappointed, not Trump’s supporters.
@ur momisugly Toneb; And you have some meaningful examples of not following through to share?
If all the money spent on the climate hoax would have been spent on infrastructure i’m sure the country would be in a far better economic health. Now the infrastructure needs urgent ‘Trump Care’.
The problem is the money has already been spent and there are no savings left. The country is broke and most american live from paycheck to paycheck.
The recovery will take much longer than most people anticipate. To undo 100 years of progressive power is more like draining the Great lakes and the Hudson Bay and will take much longer than 4 years.
“My message would be that despair is just another form of denial. There is no time to despair. We don’t have time to lick our wounds, to hope for a different election outcome.
“We have to win this struggle and we will win it; the only question is how fast we win. But more damaged is baked into the climate system every day, so it’s a race against time.”
To me this seems a threat. There is nothing more dangerous than people that have everything to lose.
“unprecedented climate action”
Hmmm… that is not a promise. It’s a threat. The Left/Progressive knows how to create anarchy to achieve they goal. He has something on Pres. elect Trump…so Pres. elect Trump had to meet him. Clearly it’s a political ultimatum. Nut sure how the Trump administration can handle a major unrest, but lets assure he’s adversaries planing big…till he and he’s family, friends and followers subjugate. He need to talk softly, but carry a big stick… club… whatever he can master to counteract the Leftoid’s ‘Coulter-War’ …I wish him and America well.
He is our last hope 🙁
Gore has nothing on Trump.
Do you think the left saved some damning revelations during that past campaign?
No chance.
Trump is doing what he has done for the past year-and-a-half, which is play his opposition like a cheap fiddle. He’s so far ahead of them, that they do not even know how stupid he is making them look.
I would not be surprised if what Trump is finding out from each one of these people he is meeting exactly what they will do if he gives them a big job. He is thus finding out exactly what they have up their sleeves, and he will use this information to his advantage. He is data mining, and finding out from friend and foe alike just what kind of ideas they have and what kind of ammunition they would use.
“Not sure how the Trump administration can handle a major unrest,”
Well, let’s see, Trump can quell any violent demonstrations using the police and military available to him, and then he can prosecute the Leftist billionaires that are funding this violence, and take their money away and throw them in jail.
And then he can root out the rest of the Leftist Fifth Column, in and out of government, that is trying to undermine the United States.
It does mention “domestic enemies” in the U.S. Constitution.
The U.S. has a lot of Leftist domestic enemies. Some of them are U.S. citizens, and some of them are not. All of them are harmful to the rest of us.
The only police Trump has available to him are the Capital Police, and I believe they technically report to congress, not the President.
The military is forbidden from getting involved in domestic situations under Posse Comitatus (spelling?).
It really amazes me how some conservatives want to out fascist the leftists.
Well, MarkW, as a Canadian, I can tell you how quickly “rules” can be changed. Look up Trudeau Senior’s implementation of the “War Measures Act” to bring the military into play during the “October Crisis”. Also look up Oka. Canada is not unique given actions in the US where use of military units were invoked. Also note that the “War Measures Act” was invoked by a left wing Liberal who had Fidel Castro as one of his pall bearers.
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Negotiations were used to finalize both issues so I expect “negotiation” will be the way things are settled although negotiation from strength is always a good policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis
Not being critical Mark, just pragmatic. There are many processes available to POTUS.
A lot of people under estimate the amount of money at stake. It’s huge, according to past statements by Gore.
Here in Australia Trump’s effect on the Green industry is expected to have a huge effect with loss of leakage funds out of the US. There are already noises.
I expect the Green groups to fight bitterly for there free money.
They can fight bitterly all they want, but the man holding the purse strings is no longer on their side.
Period.
End of story.
As noted Trump is no pushover. He’s a hard-nosed businessman.
Trump is not known for handing out money to people who he has vanquished. Everyone paying attention knows how much money is at stake, that is why this election was so important.
It’s all about the money.
It’s always been all about the money.
And that’s all it is about, the money.
There is a lot of money and jobs to be gained in the US if the wind industry is supported (I expect it to continue Trump or no Trump, but an opportunity for more jobs will be missed)
https://cleantechnica.com/2016/12/05/trumps-lies-threaten-wind-techs-fastest-growing-us-job/
Griff, your “lots of jobs” is from an industry that is parasitic on the rest of the electric power industry. “Renewable energy”, judging from the experience reported in WUWT with Europe and Australia, which have gone down the green rabbit hole much farther than the US, disrupts and perversely depends on more conventional power. Germany and Dennmark require Norway and hydro, France and nuclear, and Poland and coal, as well as the remnants of their own conventional.
Green jobs are like an exercise in farming vampire bats for wool.
@ur momisugly Griff: Last time I checked, subsidizing is redistribution, as in some totalitarian taxing authority takes money from successful people and distributes it to companies like Solyndra who received a $535 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee. Other investors were con artists as well, such as Virgin Green. Where did the billions go? Answer: Welfare for the insiders and wealthy.
Griff,
How did that “pie in the sky” renewables mantra work out for Spain?
Sure thing, when you steal money from one group of people in order to subsidize an industry, that industry often does grow.
Tom, you don’t understand, just like socialism, this time renewable energy is going to work.
“There is a lot of money and jobs to be gained in the US if the wind industry is supported”
There IS NO MONEY to be made in the wind industry, nor the solar, come to that,
Stop making stuff up.
If it has to be supported it’s not really a job.
Like Solyndra jobs?
If the technology is viable, the market will support it. There is no need for government intervention. Go get yourself a Trabant if you want to see how government intervention works.
Well, if Gore talks about ramping up activism, that meeting must have been a pretty bad one for him. That’s great.
Yep… Gore almost certainly got told that his SCAM IS OVER. !!
Al Gore made those remarks before he met with Trump.
Crickets, since.
On swamp draining/subsidies, 2 examples from the UK
When solar panels were first subsidized, they were given a *very* generous rate – 45 pence per kWh, free electric and no tax on the income.
Not long into that, Govm’nt realised it was a bit too good and went to slash the subsidy rate – halving it in one fell swoop.
And how the installers & suppliers wailed and cried and pleaded about going out of business, killing jobs/investment/children/polar bars/The World. We know the rest. (How’s the ice going Griff?)
The subsidy cut went ahead and guess what, overnight the installed price for sunshine panels halved. Those of us with a mathematic inclination revealed that the financial ‘return’ for consumers investing in sunshine panels stayed exactly the same, circa 9 or 10% (over the 25 year expected lifetime of the panels)
Now, how did that happen if the suppliers had not been fixing their prices and effectively creaming off the subsidy in one lump sum of cash when the panels were installed leaving the punters with a 25 year gamble?
Cronyism in full swing.
Then, off-shore wind was determined to be the best thing ever and UK Gov decided to buy some turbines. Of course they shopped around for ‘the best deal’ and got some turbines at the bargain price of £10M each.
Sadly the Gov’s timing was a bit off and unfortunately the price of steel (it had to be something) increased by 25% just a few weeks after ‘the ink had dried’
So, to reflect this and as Gov had committed itself, the price of the turbines went out to £14M each.
I ask, what fraction of the cost of a turbine is the actual steel and when that small part goes up by 25%, why does the finished thing ramp up by 40%?
Nice work if you can get it….
Probably about the same percentage as the labor cost is of a Carrier Air Conditioner.
The ice is in a terrible state, since you ask – latest volume figures incorporating Novmeber data show that…
http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/
“November 2016 sea ice volume was 7,800 km3 , about 2500 km3 below the 2015 value and the lowest for any November on record exceeding the prior record set in 2012 by about 400 km3 . This record is in part the result of anomalously high temperatures throughout the Arctic for November discussed here. 2016 November volume was 61% below the maximum November ice volume in 1979, 48% below the 1979-2015 mean, and about 1.1 standard deviations below the long term trend line.
Average ice thickness in September 2016 over the PIOMAS domain was also one of the lowest on record…”
Extent remains a record low for December, with ice yet to reach Svalbard or cover Hudson Bay
https://seaice.uni-bremen.de/amsr2/index.html
Griff seems to believe that Gaia’s ideal Arctic ice extent occurred in 1979 and that any significant deviation from that 1979 ideal is a “terrible state”.
Griff believes whatever it is necessary for him to believe.
“The ice is in a terrible state,”
NO, it is not.
It is still massively above the levels of most of the first 3/4 of the Holocene.
1979 was the EXTREME.. almost up there with levels of the Little Ice Age.
What we have been seeing since 1979 is a recovery from that extreme a little bit towards more normal levels.
“The ice is in a terrible state”
Bollocks.
Wow 7800 km3…that is like greater than 3 times the volume of Mt Everest that is still a hellovalotta ice
And the value of the sea ice is?
How much you willing to pay? I’ll sell it to you by the bag, if you gots da cash!
When Warren Buffett and George Soros start buying coal mines and oilfield service companies, believe it.
Buffett owns BNSF Railroad, which is making good money hauling crude oil, in part because pipeline construction has been stalled by Soros-funded ‘enviro’ groups. Buffett goes where the money is. Soros goes wherever he can kick the American dog.
/Mr Lynn
I read that Soros bought Peabody’s coal interest for pennies on the dollar.
Sorry I must have missed the bit where the article mentioned that al-Gore has massive business interests that depend absolutely on govts tipping $trillions into renewables whether they’re viable or not.
How to double our national debt for no benefit–
Rooftop residential solar costs 35-40 cents per kWh for a commodity one can buy from the ISO power market for 7-8 cents. So what’s a few cents? Well we consume one heck of a lot of kWh- 4 trillion for the US alone. A 25 cent/kWh premium for solar would add $1Trillion to our costs per year. Over the 20 year solar mortgage/life we would double our national debt. All these costs for a kWh which does exactly the same amount of work independent of where it was generated.
Most of the solar subsidies are federal. 30% investment tax credit and accelerated depreciation that is almost as large.
More trees….And all the solar costs for questionable CO2 benefit. The state says that a 5 kW rooftop solar is equivalent to planting an acre of trees (or not cutting down a half acre or less)….and the trees would have the added benefit of reducing the air conditioning load.
More gas turbines will reduce 10 times the amount of CO2 as solar
ISO studies show that you can reduce CO2 for about 1/10 the capital cost per tonne of CO2 by replacing existing inefficient older plants with modern gas turbine plants.
If you’re really interested in the environment, then upgrade with gas turbines for 10 times the reduction of CO2 per dollar spent than with solar….but maybe the agenda is not reducing CO2…….
And ISO statistics show that emission improvements are due to gas turbines, not solar.
But of course there’s no reason to reduce CO2 emissions, and good reason to increase them: more green plants, and just maybe slight amelioration of oncoming cold?
/Mr Lynn
but maybe the agenda is not reducing CO2……. Exactly, the agenda is one world government under Big Brother.
Climate alarmists certainly love that word ‘unprecedented’. It’s like they’re using those vocabulary card deck and they have to use the word in a sentence at least five times during the day.
The way to defuse the climate change social mania is to expose the the self dealing, rent seeking, shoddy papers, censorship, and plain old corruption that dominates the climate change movement.
The problem is and will continue to be RINOs sabotaging Trump’s every move. They are going to do everything they can to prevent President Trump from enacting his campaign promises.
Bring it on. That’s what the working class needs to see up front and personal. They’ve already seen over reach government, now they need to see over reach opposition and mass protest….daily.
They’ve got two years to get behind Trump or he might just campaign in their district to find a suitable replacement. I’m sure the press would be all over that one.
You seem to believe that Trump is as popular everywhere, as he is in your household.
There are lots of districts where standing up to Trump will improve your re-election chances. Even Republican districts.
If Trump is successful and the economy improves and people are better off, he will have more support in four years, not less.
A lot of the people who were on the fence or who bought the liberal lies about him will see how what has occurs compares with what they feared, and will vote for him.
If he is successful, he will have huge support.
And considering how the economy has been artificially held back, it seems likely that he will be.
That is how I see it.
Time will tell.
While the economy has been held back artificially, it’s yet to be determined how quickly Trump will be able to get major reforms through congress.
Some of the things he’s for will help the economy. Some will hurt the economy.
His tax cuts can help the economy, however the increased debt will bring on the coming debt collapse that much more quickly.
Beyond that the Obama economy is already showing signs of being ready to roll over into another recession, which will of course be blamed on Trump since he’s president.
Boy would I have loved to be a fly on the wall for that “meeting”. Gore was awfully tight-lipped about it, and brusque, so I don’t think it went all that well for him. String him along I guess is the tactic here.
I suspect the possibility of cutting CO2 emissions by going nuclear was discussed. Hansen favors that route.
It’s difficult to remember that your prime objective is to drain the swamp when the Al-i-Gore-tors are snapping at your ass.
But, methinks that Gore is in a hurry to rescue his doomed AGW scam because pretty soon old Mother Nature is going to do it for him. When the people are shivering they won’t want to listen to his AGW crap.
OK mods…I should have said @ss. Or was it the cr@p? 🙂
As the democrats (and many republicans) are slowly finding out, Trump is a businessman, not a politician. Trump has not really had to deal with fanatics as a businessman, and of course politicians have never known how to react with an equal who is not in politics, so it is a learning curve in that respect on both sides.
However, I doubt algore or his minions are going to go quietly, and Trump is going to find out that you do not deal with SJWs. You either ignore them or cave to them. Trump does not cave. If the election showed nothing else, it showed us that aspect of Trump.
Or Trump may have been only interested in how Algore made millions off the AGW scam. A true businessman is always looking to increase the bottom line.
“promised an “unprecedented” surge” in activism tells me DJT told Algore:Thegoreacle that his environwacko crap ain’t gonna go no more. So, more hysterical screeching is all Algore:Thegoreacle has got.
Without an unprecedented rise in temperature, sea level, tornadoes, hurricanes etcetera, Gore has to try for an unprecedented rise in his ability to inflame people of faith.
Don’t underestimate him; for 15 years he has managed to indoctrinate children. Ask the college graduates now entering the work force what they think.
er… we already had the unprecedented rise in temperature (and a local one in the arctic following this summers record)
“er… we already had the unprecedented rise in temperature”
2016 was one-tenth of a degree hotter than 1998, at its hottest point, according to the UAH satellite record. I guess one-tenth of a degree can be technically called “unprecedented”, if limited to the satellite record. Of course, it’s cooler now than then, so we are out of “unprecedented” territory. You can relax.
To put “unprecedented in perspective: The years 1998 and 2016 are tied for the hottest year in the satellite record (1979 to present). Nothing unprecedented here. Business as usual. Next question to answer: How low does the temperature drop from here?
The trolls become weaker every new round, a sure sign of a cult in decline. Griff sure is the weakest that I have ever seen, not even entertaining, a perfect example of someone having been raised within a safe space…
How about some data and graphs with error bars.
Start it a few thousand years before entering the current interglacial.
Please do the same with Arctic Ice and sea level.
Don’t forget the references.
No can do, eh?
I’m not surprised.
According to Griffie, a few dozen ships logs over 100+ years is as viable a record as daily satellite measurements.
I believe that many comments are missing two important points.
First, and most important, is that Al Gore has “invested” so much of himself in Global Warming that it is now personal. He’s human. He can’t ever concede that he overstated the issue without tremendous loss of prestige and self worth. The battle for Al Gore’s self respect must continue!!
Note on other fanatics: Hansen has taken some, a few, steps back from his former apocalyptic self but lost some of his prestige with the greenies in doing so. Creepy Suzuki has gradually faded into the background without much ego bruising.
Second, regardless of how Pres elect Trump feels about Global Warming, he recognizes that eliminating employment is not beneficial to his agenda. Consequently, any changes will be governed by their effects on the economy. This probably means gradual rather than abrupt change.
Eliminating the employment of highly paid leeches, who spend countless billions re-researching a so-called settled science, and then using the results to recommend and implement policies which have the net effect of killing jobs and squelching economic growth, is not only beneficial but way overdue and a necessary first step in putting an end to this insanity once and for all.
Defunding every single red cent of what these clowns have been sucking out of the government teat is already on the table, and being openly discussed.
First step is identifying and enumerating the programs and agencies and amounts.
That has been done.
Next step…YOU’RE FIRED!
I am pretty sure Trump knowns exactly how to say those words.
He knows what has been holding back the economy…it is no mystery. It has been the industry crushing regulations, coupled with business leaders not being willing to invest with a regime in charge that actively wants to punish profits and job creation.
Things can turn around very quickly once these brakes are removed.
Yup, the greenie leeches have this to look forward to:
Sorry for the off-topic, but it is exciting: ExxonMobil has informed AGU that they do not intend to sponsor the Student Breakfast at the 2016 Fall Meeting (per AGU), and probably other AGU activities. Just what the AGU management asked for.
That’s a very old article, referring to the already held 2016 conference. But if you want insight into how AGW fanatics have corrupted the AGU and by implication their employers,, read the amazing comments below the article.
Hunter,
Just read a little of that comment section you mentioned.
Those comments sound like they could have been made by the DAPL protesters.
It isn’t clear what – if anything – is to be done about this. Virtually every major Western institution has been completely taken over by watermelons and were we to be in an express elevator heading directly for a new Dalton minimum the agw fanatics would be claiming co2 as the cause. They are all way too deeply entrenched and there is no hope at all that they can ever u-turn on this issue. Academia is now every bit as swampy as DC.
Gore should start his renewed activism by selling his mammoth houseboat, moving to a smaller house with a teleconference setup in his home office, and flying only when strictly necessary in Economy Plus (he’s a big guy) at best. Walk it like you talk it for a change, Mr. Gore.
Keep in mind, I have nothing against the wealthy living high on the hog with their own money; just don’t be like Leo, who flew his posse halfway around the world in his jet to hear him hector the rest of us, or that rich fool who flew his entire brood, including nanny, to Davos in two jets, just to tell us we all need to shrink our footprint. Money talks, and BS walks.
Actually, Doug Wenzel, per your examples, BS flies first class or private – everywhere. Or it takes limos. BS would NEVER condescend to walk.
A few years back, when introducing his Climate Fantasy “An Inconvenient Truth” at the Cannes Film festival, Gore took a limo for the 1/4 mile ride from his hotel to the convention center. Kept the limo running the entire time he was giving his speech, then rode it back to his hotel when done.
Excellent. If they want to dig in to work, they can start collecting voluntary donations to support their cause. That’s the way to do it.
What Gore laughingly refers to as “research” amounts to nothing more than Federally funded college sophmores imagining new horrors as a result of global warming.
Good point : ifGore is certain that “the science is settled” exactly why is there any need for research. And his claim that “renewables” will take over is predictablt stupid. I will argue that low carbon energy production wil take over, but it won’t be from renewables, but from nuclear molten salt reactors. Is it just me, or does everyone feel the same as I do : that every word that comes out of Al Gore’s mouth is pure stupidity? I will also argue that we are not far away from practical electric cars – when GM claims they can buy lithium batteries for $150 per kWhr for their electric car (which they did a month ago), then we are very close. And I will argue that for small vehicles, such as the upcoming Elio three wheeler, we are there. My back of the envelope calculations estimate an electric Elio with over 250 miles of driving range, a recharge time of 80% in less than 20 minutes will cost roughly $10,000 to $14,000 at current battery prices, less in a few years.
There’s no reason why “low carbon energy” should take over any time soon, either in MSRs or otherwise. It could be decades before those are viable. And as for “practical electric cars”, don’t make me laff. There’s a reason why, even with generous subsidies the EV market is pathetically small, and not likely to expand much any time soon – maybe in 40 or 50 years, who knows.
Molten salt reactor, yes. It operates on atmospheric pressure, chemicals involved are inert, it has a negative temperature coefficient of reactivity, so it can neither blow up nor burn. Fissionable material in core is small at any one time, so even a direct meteorite impact has limited consequences. It does not need active cooling on shutdown, does not produce long half life radioactive waste, uses all the energy in fuel, not only one percent of it, meaning two orders of magnitude less waste for a given energy output, than in our current Cold War Plutonium factories. It is resistant to nuclear weapons’ proliferation. A ton of ordinary granite, the default stuff continents are made of contains as much recoverable energy as fifty tons of coal, but we have much better ores than that for a long time, so mining footprint should drop dramatically. What is more, the technology is proven, in fact the experiment was done fifty years ago.
That said, we do not really need it until we run out of coal, that is, for another century or two.
Gore may just walk into the trap of opening working against average American working class stiffs and crystallizing that for all to plainly see. Hillary already made that mistake and Gore is a lot dumber than she is.
openly
As somebody pointed out, Trump is playing chess while the opposition is playing checkers:
No, the opposition is playing tictactoe.