NC WARN Op-Eds

It’s time to get past ‘urgency denial’ — Winston-Salem Journal

January 17, 2009

Op-Ed by Jim Warren. Severe climate changes are occurring at an accelerating rate. Our planet is in crisis, according to the
world’s top scientists, and corrective measures that are proven, feasible and economically beneficial
— mainly energy efficiency — need to be implemented now.

North Carolina residents need straight talk from Duke Energy — Herald-Sun

February 10, 2008

Op-Ed by Jim Warren. Climate change is causing extensive damage at an accelerating rate. Oxfam International reports that weather disasters have quadrupled in 20 years with a quarter billion people impacted annually.

Will we pay, again, for nuclear folly? — News and Observer

July 13, 2007

Op-Ed by Jim Warren. Despite a propaganda offensive depicting nuclear power as carbon free and safer than ever, resuscitating the failed technology would be a huge, unnecessary gamble for our climate, economy and safety.

Nuclear = the Worst Managerial Disaster — Forbes

July 7, 2007

Op-Ed by Jim Warren. Despite a withering propaganda offensive depicting nuclear power as carbon free and safer than ever, resuscitating the failed technology would be a huge, unnecessary gamble for our climate, economy and safety.

Saved by nuclear power? No — News & Observer

May 25, 2006

Op-Ed by Jim Warren. What’s the most compelling reason Progress Energy should stop planning new reactors at its Shearon Harris nuclear plant? Global climate change.

Producing power with too much danger — News & Observer

May 31, 2005

Op-Ed by Jim Warren. The multi-billion dollar question is whether the nuclear industry can fool enough people with its fallacies — even to pay for new reactors in the Carolinas, including Wake County.

Safer? Cheaper? Hardly — News & Observer

August 5, 2001

Op-Ed by Jim Warren. Despite claims that nuclear power is “emissions free,” research in Europe and the U.S. suggests that routine radioactive releases into air and water are damaging health near nuclear plants.

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