This is my first posting on my first blog. (I am curious as to how it will go and whether anyone will notice.)
I've been a long-time trustee of the NRDC, and am professor emeritus of the University of Minnesota, where I began teaching energy and environment policy in the early 1970s. I'm retired since 1998 (I prefer to think of it as being unemployed), but still teach energy policy at the University of Iceland and in Sweden.
A summary of my views on U.S. energy policy has just been posted here: "Sustainable Development and Energy Options" [PDF, 3.46 MB].
Our energy policy options are simple in theory -- decrease demand or increase supply -- but extrememly difficult in practice. Small, incremental changes, each with a time horizon of around 20 years are not going to be enough to avoid very serious, probably devastating adverse impacts.
Have a look at my presentation and let me know what you think. By the way, I hope that there are no factual errors in my presentation. If you find any, please let me know, and supply a source to the documentation.
Dean Abrahamson is professor emeritus of energy and environmental policy at the University of Minnesota. He has been an NRDC trustee since 1972.