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Question 1: To solve the climate crisis we need nuclear energy.

News articles

E. Solomon, “Facing Energy Crisis, Germans, Warily, Give Nuclear a Second Look,” The New York Times, Aug. 05, 2022. Also available through Factiva  (sign-in required)

Opinions

TED Talk. Leslie Dewan: Making the Invisible Visible: Demystifying Nuclear Energy  Mar. 21, 2022. 

Scholarly research

B. K. Sovacool, P. Schmid, A. Stirling, G. Walter, and G. MacKerron, “Differences in carbon emissions reduction between countries pursuing renewable electricity versus nuclear power,” Nat Energy, vol. 5, no. 11, Art. no. 11, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.1038/s41560-020-00696-3.

Question 2: Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) should not be part of our plan to solve the climate crisis.

News articles

P. Tullis, “Can Carbon Capture Be Part of the Climate Solution?,” The New York Times, Jun. 13, 2022. Accessed: Sep. 07, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/climate/capture-capture-storage-jennifer-wilcox.html

Opinions

Dembicki, Geoff. ‘“Carbon Capture” Is No Fix. Big Oil’s Known for Decades’. The Tyee, 7 July 2022.

Scholarly research

Wilcox J. (2012). Carbon Capture.  Springer 

Eaton, Emily M., and Nick A. Day. ‘Petro-Pedagogy: Fossil Fuel Interests and the Obstruction of Climate Justice in Public Education’. Environmental Education Research, vol. 26, no. 4, Apr. 2020, pp. 457–73. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2019.1650164.

 

 Question 3: Switching to electric vehicles (EVs) is the best way to address mobility in a climate constrained world.

 

News articles

J. Ewing, “Electric cars too costly for many, even with aid in climate bill,” The New York Times, Aug. 08, 2022.  Also available through Factiva

Opinions

A. Nikiforuk, “Are Electric Cars the Solution?,” The Tyee,  Jan. 25, 2022. 

 

Scholarly research

G. Hill, O. Heidrich, F. Creutzig, and P. Blythe, “The role of electric vehicles in near-term mitigation pathways and achieving the UK’s carbon budget,” Applied Energy, vol. 251, p. 113111, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.107.



N. C. Onat, M. Kucukvar, N. N. M. Aboushaqrah, and R. Jabbar, “How sustainable is electric mobility? A comprehensive sustainability assessment approach for the case of Qatar,” Applied Energy, vol. 250, pp. 461–477, Sep. 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.05.076.

 

Question 4: Wind and Solar power will allow us to solve the climate crisis cheaply and efficiently.

News articles

C. Turner, “Hot and cold: We should look on the bright side, says Chris Turner, and feel optimistic about our collective ability to solve the climate crisis,” The Globe and Mail, p. O1, May 21, 2022 

Opinions

T. Green and S. Thomas, “Canada’s Big Zero-Emissions Potential,” The Tyee, Jul. 27, 2022. 


V. Smil, “The Long Slow Rise of Solar and Wind [: the great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to wind and solar is wishful thinking]” Scientific American, vol. 310, no. 1, pp. 52–57, Dec. 2013, doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican0114-52.

 

Scholarly research

M. Z. Jacobson et al., “Examining the feasibility of converting New York State’s all-purpose energy infrastructure to one using wind, water, and sunlight,” Energy Policy, vol. 57, pp. 585–601, Jun. 2013, doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.02.036

 

Question 5: To solve the climate crisis, communities need to replace centralized grid power with renewable distributed energy resources.

News articles

D. Battagello, “Local electricity sources needed to help solve Ontario’s inadequate supply,” The Windsor Star,  May 14, 2022. 

 

Opinions

GridLab, “The Role of Distributed Energy Resources in New Jersey’s Clean Energy Transition,” 2019

 

Scholarly research

B. Shen, F. Kahrl, and A. J. Satchwell, “Facilitating Power Grid Decarbonization with Distributed Energy Resources: Lessons from the United States,” Annual Review of Environmental Resources, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 349–375, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1146/annurev-environ-111320-071618.


​​D. S. Strebkov and N. S. Filippchenkova, “Results of an Experimental Study of a Solar Photovoltaic-Thermal Module,” Applied Solar Energy, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 442–448, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.3103/S0003701X20060110.