Renewables & Global Warming - Keep Watching!

During the Senate Budget Committee hearing on May 3, 2023, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) had a tense exchange with Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at the Heritage Foundation on her views of the climate.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: You wrote, for instance, in a Forbes column last year that renewables actually increase global emissions. Do you stand by that comment?

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: Yes, because there made with coal fired power plants in China. I did explain that if renewables were, the wind turbines and solar panels are made, and batteries, with coal fired power plants in China. I did explain that if these were made with emissions free energy, such as nuclear power, then the benefits to the environment would be much greater. But many environmentalists who are in favor of renewables are against dense emission nuclear power and therefore making these renewables often raises emissions.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: In addition to stating that renewables actually increase global emissions, have you also agreed that recent data, and I quote here, "calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change"?

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: I'm an economist, not a scientist.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: Well, you wrote that for a Wall Street Journal opinion piece in 2015, do and stans by it here today in 2023?

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: Yes, scientists disagree on the human component of global warming and in this book, Unsettled, by Steve Koonin who was Under Secretary of Energy under President Obama, and who are told for 30 years at Caltech, and has a PhD in physics from MIT, he says that it is uncertain how much human activity affects global warming, the cases unsettled. And I'm no better scientist than he is.

Well, thank you very much. It's notable that that is the position that the Republican Party intends to stand by.

The second clip in this video includes information from Jørgen Peder Steffensen, professor of ice core related research at the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.

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