Dr Hansen, Ziggy Switkowski and Erica Smyth will debate Molly Harriss Olson, Mark Diesendorf and Jim Green tonight at Melbourne Town Hall from 6.30pm on whether Australia should embrace nuclear power. The Age is a partner for the IQ2 debate.
(…) Where Dr Hansen – who brought global warming to the world’s attention through testimony before the US Congress in 1988 and has become famously vocal in his disenchantment over its failure to act – diverges from the Greens is on the issue that brought him to Melbourne: nuclear power. He believes it is an inevitable part of the solution.
Dr Hansen said the answer to climate change must be a rising carbon tax and alternative technologies competing: nuclear, renewable energy sources and energy efficiency.
Renewable sources cannot be relied on solely, he believes, and ”it becomes a choice between coal and nuclear for baseload power”.
The video should be available here at the IQ2 site when it is available.
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