Gernot Wagner
Although US President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans give climate advocates plenty to worry about, all hope is not lost. Clean-energy technologies still have decisive physical advantages over the alternatives, and economic common sense will eventually win out.
NEW YORK – It is tough to be optimistic about the climate these days. While the costs of extreme weather events like the Los Angeles wildfires pile up , the US federal policy pendulum is swinging away from facts , reason , and basic human decency . Nonetheless, even as the US government moves in the wrong direction, trends in science, economics, and increasingly local politics indicate that the pendulum will swing back in due course. After all, no one can argue with the physics of today’s clean energy technologies. Heat pumps, induction stoves, and electric vehicles (EVs) – to name just three
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