VIENNA – I am often asked if nuclear power is safe. My standard answer is: “Yes – as safe as air travel.” Plane crashes do occur, but highly…

MOSCOW – There is one key thing to keep in mind when talking about Russia: despite what you see on the surface, it never really changes. Bui…

COPENHAGEN – Look at the leaders of our time. That these are tough times can be read in the lines of their faces, and in their stern looks. …

NEW YORK – There is plenty of money in the private sector to build up the world’s renewable infrastructure as long as the numbers add up, an…

RHINECLIFF, NEW YORK – In Jules Verne’s novel The Mysterious Island , published in 1874, Cyrus Harding, the book’s engineer/hero, declares …

MILAN – Most people recognize that human activity, primarily the use of fossil fuels, is contributing mightily to an increasing level of gre…

PALO ALTO – Today’s huge global energy problems in no small measure reflect the essentially nineteenth-century business plans that three of …

WASHINGTON, DC – President Barack Obama has called climate change one of the most important challenges of our time, and is pressing forward …

COPENHAGEN – There is a dangerous misperception that willpower and political agreement are the only missing ingredients needed to combat glo…

SINGAPORE – Asia’s rise is unstoppable. What is stoppable is the steep rise in Asia’s reliance on fossil fuels. Indeed, the decisions to be …

OXFORD – Throughout the history of the oil industry, fear and concern about the imminent exhaustion of oil reserves has been a recurring the…

PRINCETON – Many people who advocate draconian measures to counteract climate change base their argument on the so-called “precautionary pri…