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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 23 Nov 2015

    My new op-ed w Joshua Goldstein on climate change: Inconvenient truths for the environmental movementhttp://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/11/23/inconvenient-truths-for-environmental-movement/esDloe97894keW16Ywa9MP/story.html?event=event25 …

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      1. Energiewende Germany‏ @EnergiewendeGER 24 Nov 2015
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        These truths are not inconvenient,just false. Neither did Germany build more coal plants to meet nuclear phaseout... @sapinker @KevinAllison

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      1. Nuclear Society SLO‏ @NucSociety_SLO 23 Nov 2015
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        @sapinker @GlobeOpinion great article on role of #nuclear #nuclearenergy in fighting #climatechange > must read for evryone going to #COP21

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      1. Energiewende Germany‏ @EnergiewendeGER 24 Nov 2015
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        ...nor do we need (to wait for) more technical breakthroughs. All basic tech is here. The rest is deployment. @sapinker @KevinAllison

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      2. 7.1% dave‏ @altvarg 23 Nov 2015
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        @sapinker Yowzers! There is a fair amount of mis- and dis-information in this article it's hard to believe you put your name to it.

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      3. 7.1% dave‏ @altvarg 23 Nov 2015
        Replying to @altvarg

        @sapinker That was bit harsher than meant, sorry. Incomplete is probably a better description of the article.

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      2. jcscaliger‏ @jcscaliger 23 Nov 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker Wow, specious arguments about dangers of nuclear vs. coal: “2011 Fukushima … killed nobody” —not yet! Thyroid cancer 20-50x normal

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      1. Carl Lee‏ @geoeverything 23 Nov 2015
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        @sapinker Such certain truths, such limited knowledge, such over confidence, so US centric: that's journalism for you. You can do better.

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      1. Matt Pfeffer‏ @matjen1 23 Nov 2015
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        @sapinker Great piece though the end sort of assumes "catastrophic climate change." Climate change...yes. Catastrophic is a huge assumption.

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      2. Noel Healy‏ @DrNoelHealy 23 Nov 2015
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        @sapinker developing countries don't crave fossil fuels, the crave energy. Political will rather than technology is our greatest obstacle

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      4. Martyn Schmoll‏ @martynschmoll 24 Nov 2015

        @RandomCDS Explain how third world, largely rural poor, are best served by centralized fossil fuel power generation. @DrNoelHealy

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      6. Martyn Schmoll‏ @martynschmoll 24 Nov 2015

        @randomcds You're kidding, right? Just *one* example: http://lutw.org  has been enabling RE, self-reliance for poor for ~15 years.

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      1. Joshua E. Brown‏ @JoshBVT 24 Nov 2015
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        @sapinker Thx for your call to "do the math." This @PNASNews study is leading me to rethink nuclear: http://bit.ly/1I8Gtqr  You?

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      1. Rolf S. Arvidson‏ @rsa4046 24 Nov 2015
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        @sapinker Glad to see this issue raised -- see @BulletinAtomic Ann. Clock Symp. keynote: http://tinyurl.com/qfnnaox http://tinyurl.com/orkw6yb 

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      1. Rupert Darwall‏ @RupertDarwall 23 Nov 2015
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        @sapinker Worthily argued, but misses the point. Why was no one concerned about AGW in the 1930s? -- No environmentalism, no global warming.

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      1. Nuclear Society SLO‏ @NucSociety_SLO 23 Nov 2015
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        @sapinker @Nuclear4Climate @WorldNuclear @jrmygrdn Can #nuclear support doing the math & findng a mix of policies to solve the problem?

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