Calling for a US Energy Strategy

Daniel M. Kammen writes in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientist about the need for a US Energy Strategy. 

Over the next 50 years, progress to meaningfully address the risk of significant climate change will require an estimated 80-percent or more reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions. Global emissions now include more than 7 billion tons of carbon being pumped into the atmosphere annually, three-quarters of which come from fossil fuel combustion (with the remainder largely from land conversion and forest burning), and their rate of accumulation is increasing.

  Read the entire piece here.