I imagine that some folks in the climate policy and politics arena have been growling at this essay in Nature by Jane C. S. Long. Why would that be? Let's just say that some advocates for climate reality have a little problem with energy reality. And some of them are probably howling at Andy Revkin for his follow-on interview with Long. Here's an excerpt: Q: If the need for breakthroughs is so clear cut, do you foresee any path "” particularly in an era of prolonged economic uncertainty "” to building political and social support for the kind of sustained "energy quest" (my term) that would be required to have a chance of making leaps instead of tweaks?
A: Interestingly, your term energy "quest" was used by Dan Yergin in his new book, which in 800 pages (!) largely seems to agree with our estimate of what the "quest" is. ...
