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Energy Secretary Talks Climate Challenge

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2015

⏱️ 3 minutes

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A brief portion of the December 9 conversation during the climate talks in France between Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Scientific American’s David Biello   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute?

0:39.6

On December 9th, during the climate talks in France, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Scientific Americans, David Bielo, met to talk about the role of technological innovation in meeting the climate challenge.

0:51.4

Here's a brief portion of their conversation.

0:53.6

How can, I guess,

0:54.9

doubts about climate change in the American context be overcome at this point?

1:01.0

Why do you think there are doubts? Because people tell me that they have senators. There are

1:06.3

statements made by a narrow slice of the population. It happens to be an important narrow slice of the population.

1:13.1

Look, I think public opinion is clearly evolving to understand and to support the idea that we need to act on climate change.

1:22.5

We are seeing all kinds of constituencies of relevance, military, religious leaders, businesses,

1:32.0

labor, you know, all saying, we got to act.

1:37.7

And, you know, and guys, it's probably better if we could just get some certainty about

1:42.1

where we're going now.

1:44.4

I just don't believe the noise in the system will be sustainable much longer.

1:52.5

And it's just time that we don't debate what's not debatable.

1:57.0

And just get down to the business of what's the scope, the scale, the pace at which we address it.

2:06.9

And I would say, you know, that's a legitimate, legitimate discussion to have.

2:11.8

So I think the innovation agenda pursuing climate risk mitigation, pursuing energy security issues, I mean I don't mean just

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