Scott Hassell

May Cooler Tempers Prevail: Let Technology Reduce Hot Air Over Global Warming

Regardless of the merits of emissions targets, the heated debate surrounding them has threatened to derail progress on a much more effective and less contentious first step: developing cleaner technologies to harness the alternative energy sources that could serve us well whatever the future might bring. Efforts to develop new technologies will likely have little effect on the very-near-term emission of greenhouse gases allegedly responsible for global warming. But what really matters is how fast we can improve the alternatives to current fossil fuel systems and how readily those alternatives can be adopted throughout the world.