Science and Goals

On Saturday, March 7, I spoke at a rally to Stand Up for Science on Boston Common.

This post summarizes scientific background helpful to understanding the 2015 Paris climate goals and explores the latest global results of the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

This post collects materials pertaining to international agreements intended to reduce carbon emissions.

Within the next few decades, we can hope that next generation nuclear power plants will become an increasingly important source of safe, clean and reliable electric power. However, from a state policy perspective, our practical focus has to be on other forms of clean power.

Bringing energy generation home to Massachusetts in the form of wind and solar farms will require all of us to accept more of the environmental costs of our energy consumption.