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Climate Change: The Faster We Get on it, The Better for Everyone
Public comments submitted by Mary-Charlotte Domandi,
Producer and Host, The Santa Fe Radio Cafe
KSFR 101.1 FM, Santa Fe Public Radio
I first became aware of how serious the climate change problem was about five years ago when I started spending time socially with a group of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratories. There’s a terrific program, not open to the public, where LANL brings in top scientists from all over the country, MIT, Rice, University of California, and so on, to give lectures to the scientists here. And my friends were continually talking about the speakers who came in to talk about energy.
There was at that time, no discussion in those lectures about whether or not climate change was real and man-made—that was already established. It was all about how we were going to get off of fossil fuels, and how many terrawatts of energy each non-carbon-emitting source could yield, and what research was most promising, and what was the time line.