Word: grimsson
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...scientific debate on whether climate change is really happening is over,” Grimsson said...
Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, speaking to a crowd of about 250, said that Iceland has undergone a radical transformation from dependence on coal and oil in the past 30 years...
This ambitious experiment in carbon sequestration landed in Iceland after scientists from Columbia University approached Grimsson. (The University of Iceland, the University of Toulouse and Reykjavk Energy are the other partners.) Grimsson traces his interest in climate change to the 1980s, when he met a fellow legislator who saw trouble on the horizon: Al Gore. Back home, Grimsson, 63, has witnessed Iceland's conversion from a coal-dependent economy to a nation that gets most of its heat from clean, renewable geothermal resources. "My job as a young boy was to get the coal for the house...
...Grimsson "wants to make Iceland an example of what can be done," says Sigurdur Gislason, a research professor at the University of Iceland. "We have enormous amounts of clean energy and a small society. You can do experiments here that you can't do anywhere else...
Basalt sequestration is one of several efforts to boost Iceland's role in climate-change science, including research into soil carbon sequestration and hydrogen-powered transportation. And Grimsson isn't above doing some firsthand testing. "I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I was the first person to exceed the speed limit in a hydrogen-powered car," he says. "I wanted to test its capability...