A Climate Institute Publication
In the HVDC system AC is converted into DC via a converter station, transmitted at a high voltage through a long-distance cable and then converted back to AC at a terminal converter station for local dispersal. This allows for lower power losses and the ability to reduce intermittency from widespread renewable energy sources.
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Despite a strong emphasis on future deregulation and rollbacks on environmental protection there remained a general consensus of extreme uncertainty amongst panelists. While touching upon Trump’s conundrum of simultaneous promotion of coal and fracking, Kurtz summarized by saying, “Trump has no fixed ideology besides self-regard.”
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In Fed Up!, Rick Perry wrote that climate change is “all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight. Al Gore is a prophet all right, a false prophet of a secular carbon cult, and now even moderate Democrats aren’t buying it.”
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Environmental groups believe Tillerson’s confirmation sends the message that the new administration and Senate do not take climate change seriously.
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Switching to renewable energy will reduce energy expenditures required for economic production. The world will have a more stable climate. And we will see reduced health and environmental impacts from carbon heavy energy emitters. For these reasons, the United States should focus on a renewable energy future.
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Renewable energy is becoming ever cheaper to produce, leading to an influx of clean energy investment which now receives twice as much global funding as fossil fuels. Thus, environmentalists argue the United States should instead commit to renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power.
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It is in some ways ironic that Trump has appointed a man who is currently taking legal action against the EPA to become the EPA chief administrator. Pruitt is a part of a group of attorneys general that is suing the EPA for the Clean Power Plan. The plan is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
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Gore told reporters after the meeting. However, Monday evening he appeared on MSNBC and said, “It is no secret that Ivanka Trump is very committed to having a climate policy that makes sense for our country and for our world.”
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry alluded to the need to set politics aside in the fight against climate change during his speech as the conference in which he said, “No one has a right to make decisions that affect billions of people based on solely ideology or without proper input.’’
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“I think that the environmental movement has been proclaiming doom right around the corner since it was founded in the late 1960s,” he said during and appearance on C-SPAN last year. “It’s how they fund the environmental movement. It’s how they attract political support, by saying we have this crisis.”
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