The New Nuclear Salesman

At the beginning of last year, he argued that "climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today – more serious even than the threat of terrorism". Now he says he is "trying to sell" new nuclear power stations to the public.

Updated on: 17 January 2024 2:47 pm

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References:

1. David King, 9th January 2004. Climate Change Science: Adapt, Mitigate, or Ignore?.Science, Vol 303, Issue 5655.

2. Myron Ebell, 8th November 2004. The Today programme.

3. David King, 21st September 2005. Speech to the Decarbonising the UK conference, Church House, Westminster.

4. Simon Retallack, October 2004. Setting a Long Term Climate Objective. Institute for Public Policy Research.

5. David Adam, 21st October 2005. Chief scientist backs nuclear power revival. TheGuardian.

6. Tony Blair, 27th September 2005. Speech to the Labour Party conference.

7. Oxera, 1st June 2005. Financing the nuclear option:modelling the costs of new build.

8. The 1960 Paris Convention, 1963 Vienna Convention and 1988 Joint Protocol.

9. Oosterhuis, F. (2001), Energy subsidies in the EuropeanUnion. Final Report, European Parliament, July 2001, cited by the European Environment Agency, 2004.

10. Amory B. Lovins, 11th September 2005. Nuclear power: economics and climate-protection potential. The Rocky Mountain Institute.

11. ibid.

12. Table 4: (Effective subsidy (USD/KWh)). European Environment Agency, 2004. Energy subsidies in the EuropeanUnion.

13. Amory B. Lovins, ibid.

14. Roger Highfield, 8th March 2004. Downing St ‘gags chief adviser on global warming’. The Telegraph.

15. ibid.