John Kerry addresses the Nuclear Policy Summit.

[NNadir]

I don't wish to place myself among those who utilize the logical fallacy known as Appeal to Authority.

It is not true that because Rob Lowe endorses Weight Watchers snacks that Weight Watcher snacks will help you lose weight. Rob Lowe is an actor, not a nutritionist.

It is not true that because Secretary Granholm endorses hydrogen fuels that hydrogen fuels are "clean," and "green," since hydrogen is made, indeed with exergy destruction, from fossil fuels, making the use of fossil fuels worse, not better.

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

John Kerry was our Presidential candidate in 2004, and like everyone here who is not a troll, I voted for him and was extremely disappointed when he didn't enter the White House as our President. Our current President has appointed him to the role of climate envoy, and presumably he interacts, being a responsible and serious politician, with scientists, but he is not a scientist, nor is he an engineer.

This said, I agree with what he said when he addressed the Nuclear Policy Summit.

World needs nuclear for net zero, says John Kerry

Nuclear will be essential for the world to accelerate its transition away from fossil fuels, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry said at a New York summit this week. He also praised the recently launched Net Zero Nuclear Initiative - which has now welcomed GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) as its first corporate partner.

Kerry was addressing the first day of Nuclear Energy Policy Summit 2023: Accelerating Net Zero Nuclear, an inaugural event organised by the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center in partnership with the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation on the sidelines of New York Climate Week and the United Nations General Assembly.

Extreme weather events are only going to increase as the world falls behind on its climate targets, Kerry said, as he called for science-based decision-making. "The reality is that this year it's going to be worse than last year, and next year is going to be worse than this year, no matter what we do - for the simple reason that we're way behind," he said. "We're currently heading towards something like 2.4 degrees, 2.5 degrees of warming on the planet and everything that you see happening today is happening at 1.1 degrees Celsius of warming," he said.

"We have to recognize a reality here. We have to transition away from unabated burning of fossil fuel," Kerry said.

"Most scientists will tell you … we can't get to net zero 2050 unless we have a pot, a mixture, of energy approaches in the new energy economy. And one of those elements which is essential in all the modelling I've seen, is nuclear."

The magnitude of the challenge will require commitment, he added. "Even if you had a quintupling of renewable energy, you will not alter the current course of 2.4 degrees - it's that big a challenge right now."

I disagree, by the way with his statement that we "need" a mixture of energy approaches.

My position is that we only need one form of energy, nuclear energy, and nothing that John Kerry says or doesn't say will change my mind.

Nevertheless, Climate Envoy Kerry is on the right path.

Quintupling so called "renewable energy" would produce, based on the data from the 2022 WEO would produce 60 exajoules of energy on a planet that is was consuming 624 in 2021. The 2023 WEO will be out in November, and having followed these reports for decades, I don't expect much change in that hyped and failed approach. There is not enough material resources or wilderness to trash to get so called "renewable energy" to 60 Exajoules per year. One would think that half a century of jawboning on the subject would have made this clear.

Have a nice day tomorrow.

[Mickju]

1. You are obviously correct.